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  • 10877 - Starters and Plenaries for Year 7 Music

Weblinks and videos for use with 10877 – Starters and Plenaries for Year 7 Music

Listening 1 – Dynamics

  • Guns ‘n Roses, ‘Welcome to the Jungle’
  • Bjork, ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’
  • Taylor Swift ‘Fifteen’
  • Kate Bush, ‘Waking the Witch’

Guns ‘n Roses, ‘Welcome to the Jungle’


Bjork, ‘It’s Oh So Quiet’


Taylor Swift ‘Fifteen’


Kate Bush, ‘Waking the Witch’

Listening 2 – High notes and low notes

  • Leonard Cohen, ‘Hallelujah’
  • Whitney Houston, ‘I Will Always Love You’
  • The Beach Boys, ‘Help Me Rhonda’

Leonard Cohen, ‘Hallelujah’


Whitney Houston, ‘I Will Always Love You’


The Beach Boys, ‘Help Me Rhonda’

Listening 3 – Tempo

  • 8 notes online app
  • Ed Sheeran, ‘Perfect’
  • Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’
  • Ariana Grande, ‘Problem’
  • Meghan Trainor, ‘Lips are Movin’
  • Sam Smith, ‘I’m not the only one’

Ed Sheeran, ‘Perfect’


Pharrell Williams ‘Happy’


Ariana Grande, ‘Problem’


Meghan Trainor, ‘Lips are Movin’


Sam Smith, ‘I’m not the only one’

Listening 4 – Metre

  • Bruno Mars ‘Just the Way You Are’
  • Jackie Greene ‘Gone Wanderin’’
  • Jimi Hendrix ‘Manic Depression’
  • Katy Perry, ‘Firework’
  • Abba, ‘Dancing Queen’
  • Waltz no.2 by Elliott Smith
  • Mumford and Sons, ‘I Will Wait’
  • Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Bruno Mars ‘Just the Way You Are’


Jackie Greene ‘Gone Wanderin’’


Jimi Hendrix ‘Manic Depression’


Katy Perry, ‘Firework’


Abba, ‘Dancing Queen’


Waltz no.2 by Elliott Smith


Mumford and Sons, ‘I Will Wait’


Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

Listening 5 – Instrument Families


Orchestra Instrument Families


Amazing Grace, US Air Force Band


Hedwig’s Theme, arr. Josh Plotner


Camila Cabello, ‘Havana’ arr. For Glockenspiel


Taylor Swift, ‘Love Story’, arr. Wedding String Quartet


Ed Sheeran, ‘Shape of You’, arr. for Marimba


Beauty and the Beast, Random String Quartet


Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars, ‘Uptown Funk’, arr. Seb Kelly


Greensleeves, performed Woodlands UMC Flute Choir

Composing 4 – Spin a Melody

  • Picture of spinner

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