Weblinks and videos for use with 10878 – Starters and Plenaries for Year 8 Music

Music theory 3 – Metre

Spotify - Queen, 'We are the Champions'

Queen, 'We are the Champions'

Music theory 4 – Treble clef notes

Online stopwatch

Performing 1 – How to Beatbox

How to Beatbox Basics in 1 Minute

Listening 1 – Articulation

‘True Colours’, Justin Timberlake/Anna Kendrick

‘Gopher Mambo’, Yma Sumac

‘Roar’, Katy Perry

‘I Dreamed a Dream’ from Les Misérables

‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ (Glee version)

Listening 2 – Steps and Leaps

Emeli Sande, ‘Next to Me’

‘Defying Gravity’ from Wicked

‘Tonight’ (Glee version)

‘Star Wars: main Title’

‘Lean on Me’ (Glee version)

‘Somewhere over the Rainbow’, From The Wizard of Oz

‘Locked out of Heaven’, Bruno Mars

Listening 3 – Tempo

Vivaldi, Spring, Movement 1

Adagio for Strings

Ride of the Valkyries

Pachelbel’s Canon

Flight of the Bumble Bee

Listening 4 – Woodwind Instruments

Arianna Grande ‘Breathin’’, flute cover

Lady Gaga ‘Shallow’, oboe cover

Taylor Swift ‘You Need to Calm Down’, clarinet cover

One Republic, ‘Secrets’, bassoon cover

Camilla Cabello, 'Senorita', clarinet cover

Justin Bieber, ‘Sorry’, flute cover

Bill Withers, ‘Lean on Me’, bassoon cover

Adele, ‘Skyfall’, oboe cover

Listening 5 – Brass Instruments

‘Hallelujah’, Leonard Cohen, Tuba cover

Despicado, Louis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee, trumpet cover

‘We are the Champions’, Queen, horn cover

‘Truth Hurts’, Lizzo, trombone cover

‘I can’t stop that feeling’, Justin Timberlake, Trumpet cover

‘Maps’, Maroon 5, horn cover

‘Skyfall’, Adele, tuba cover

‘The Box’, Roddy Rich, Trombone cover

Composing 3 – The Blues

Bass Lessons - Basic 12 Bar Blues For Bass Guitar - Easy Basslines

Composing 4 – Graphic notation

Graphic notation

Earle Brown, December 1952

Cardew, Treatise

Ligeti, Artikulation

Example written by a 12-year old