Key Stage 3 Year 7 Curriculum with Focus on Sound - Focus on Sound, Music Education Software

Key Stage 3 Year 7 Curriculum with Focus on Sound

We now have the first stages of our KS3 curriculum on the site here:

Here are some other suggestions for lessons you might use in the first year(s) of Key Stage 3.

Teachers with subscriptions or trial subscriptions will be able to follow the links
- Users of our standard MusicFirst system should log on to Focus on Sound first.
- Users of our Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams systems don't need to log on first

Notice that we now have aural training and composing lessons.

Instruments, groups and world music

Woodwind

Introduction to the flute

Introduction to the clarinet

Introduction to the saxophone

Brass

Introduction to the trumpet

Introduction to the trombone

Strings

Introduction to the violin

Percussion

Introduction to the drum kit

Untuned percussion instruments

Tuned percussion instruments

Keyboard instruments

Introduction to the piano

Guitars

Electric guitar and bass guitar

Acoustic guitar

World music

The music of India

The music of Africa

The music of the Caribbean

The music of Ireland

Groups

Introduction to the Orchestra

Introduction to jazz bands

The Blues and Blues bands

Theory and basics

Basics

Notes and signs

Treble clef letter names

Signatures, dynamics, etc.

Time signatures

Tempo and rhythm

8 Beat Rock Rhythms

Composing and aural training

Introduction

Song Maker - Introduction

Song Maker - drum beats

Composing - melody

Song Maker - steps

Song Maker - steps and 3rds

Song Maker - pentatonic melody

Aural training - melody

Thirds and steps

Aural training - rhythm