Year 9-10 Music
Overview
Music is a crucial part of any person’s life and it surrounds us every day. Why not get in on the action?
Year 9-10 Music has a specific focus on using digital tools to create and explore different areas of music in a way that is approachable for complete beginners.
Using online & digital tools, you will learn about different aspects of music through creating, analysing, and researching music using a variety of different approaches. You will learn all about elements of music and how your favourite artists and composers create the music you love.
What do you do?
Year 9-10 Music is organised in 4 modules which each explore different aspects of music.
Basics of Digital Music Production – In this module students learn all about Beats, Notes, Scales, Melodies, Chords, and Basslines through practical activities.
Research Project – In this module students conduct research about a musician/composer of their choice and showcase their findings in a presentation.
Music Notation Basics – In this module students learn the basics of the standard music notation system. Students explore how pitch and rhythm are communicated in notation and then learn to create their own notation digitally.
Creating a Soundtrack – In this module students create a short musical work for a film or video game based on a creative brief using their choice of tools explored in the other modules.
Through all of these modules you will learn about how music is organised and made, so you can develop skills to allow you to make your own music.
You will have the opportunity to share your work and collaborate with classmates throughout this subject.
Year 9-10 Music caters for a diversity of skills, backgrounds, and experience in music.
What skills do you develop?
You will develop skills including:
- Collaboration, communication and social skills
- Music Making – Beats, Chord Progressions, Melodies
- Critical thinking & Critical listening
- Researching and presenting findings
- Digital literacy
- Creativity and musical exploration
- Planning, developing and notating compositions
- Manipulate combinations of the elements of music in a range of styles, using technology and notation
- Analyse a range of music from contemporary and past times
Requirements
You must have access to the internet to access this course. Work will be completed and submitted online weekly. Attendance, participation, contributions and content sharing in online lessons is essential to successfully complete this subject.
Recommended but not required:
- a good set of headphones
- Ableton Live 11 (Licence provided by VSV)