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Free music composition outlines
Song Writing Starter Worksheet for Music Students EDITABLE
This is an editable song writing worksheet and/or road map for music students to work through while trying to write a song. This approach focuses on learning and understanding how chord progressions are unpacked within the music we listen to on a regular basis.How I use this activity in my own classroom (link to blog).⚠️FREEBIE ALERT⚠️This resource is perfect for:✅ 6-12 General Music Classroom Projects✅ Individualized Learning Activities✅ Distance LearningWhat’s Included With Your Download:✅ Ed
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6th - 12th
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Common Jazz Piano Chart Chords Worksheet
Help your students learn how to play and notate common piano jazz chords in C Major with this clear and accessible worksheet!
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Not Grade Specific
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Music Theory Basic Scope and Sequence
This is a basic scope and sequence I designed while writing my curriculum for a high school music theory course. It lists the macro concepts which I taught, in order. Because music literacy builds from one concept to the next (much like learning to read, or any language for that matter), I tweaked this design throughout my years of teaching the course in order to make it as efficient and logical as possible.
The concepts at the end of the page which are struck out were optional materials I woul
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8th - 12th
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Speech writing practice
These worksheets give the students a step by step guide on how to write a successful speech. There is room for the students to write on the worksheet. This is great for beginners or at the start of the school year for a refresher.
Speech Writing Practice by Jourdan Holmes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
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5th - 8th
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Spooky Music Listening Worksheet
Halloween is approaching!Get your music students excited by having them listen to two "spooky" sounding pieces. This is the accompanying worksheet for the Spooky Music Listening Slides.This resource is recommended for middle and high school students. It requires prior knowledge of instruments of the orchestra, what a composer and music time period is, and critical thinking.
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6th - 12th
STOMP Project with Youtube Links
This handout will guide students through the process of creating their own STOMP themes and variations. I have included the links on page 3 for the educator to access. Students will see the tutorial examples from STOMP members, write the repeating rhythms heard (theme), then hear examples of how to create variations. After the "how to" from the videos, students will get into groups to compose, practice, and perform in their own STOMP groups.
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4th - 8th
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Rap Lyric Writing Organizer/Outline
After teaching a rap lyric writing unit with my fifth graders for many years, this organizer is the result of applying years of experience with students' journeys through the lyric writing process. The first page directs students through the process of deciding on what general content will be in their song, similarly to creating an outline to a paper. The second page has lined space for students to compose a chorus and two verses. To extend this composition activity, you can have students create
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4th - 6th
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Music Listening Worksheet
This worksheet is for listening activities with students. The outline is set up so students can give definitive answers to each section with allowing them to be creative and personal with the music.
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4th - 12th
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FREE GUIDE: How to Write a Music Learning Target
Do you feel like you are MAJORLY on the struggle bus when it comes to writing a learning target for the music classroom? Look no further! This quick, action-oriented, FREE how-to guide will get you writing "i can" statements for the music room in no time at all! Learn the four simple steps it takes to write a clear, concise anchor for your music lessons that focuses on student success and independent music making.Want to get a sneak peek at the tips inside? Check out the episode of The Anacrusic
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PreK - 8th
Blank Sheet Music - Treble Clef
Blank StaffTreble Clef42 measures (numbered)PDF Format
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5 Step Guide to Basic Mixing
Starting any mix is difficult; not knowing the sound you are going for, what instrument to listen to first and what FX to use first. 5-Step Guide to Basic Mixing will help you overcome this and help develop all the skills you need to mix quickly and professionally. See more of my teaching resources like this HERE!Any mix is basically bringing together everything from the recording stage and placing it all together in one comprehensible track that sounds like it is all one performance and NOT jus
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9th - 12th
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Also included in: Music Recording and Production
iPad Composition Project
My iPad Composing project is unique and forward-thinking, and kids love it! Students get the opportunity to work collaboratively and creatively with their classmates, while learning on technology and software unique to the music classroom. Students are able to see the making of a song, from start to finish, and actively create the entire work THEMSELVES. This is a GUIDE for leading lessons on iPad Composing. You may utilize any online music platform (such as Audacity), but this one focuses more
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3rd - 8th
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Easy n Fun: Easy Cadence Chart
An easy to read reference chart for students and teachers studying the four principal cadences (Perfect, Plagal, Imperfect and Interrupted)
A great colourful reference to be shared, please acknowledge author.
Easy n Fun: Quick Cadence Chart by Isabelle Taye is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Not Grade Specific
Scripting a Musically Based Narrative-Thinksheet
This Thinksheet organizer helps guide student listening in the music classroom. While listening to an assigned musical example, this Thinksheet provides a chance for students to organize their thoughts and develop a written narrative/screenplay based on the example. The overall theme and concepts this Thinksheet addresses are:-Mood/emotion-Musical Elements
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5th - 12th
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Easter Mini Eraser Music Notation
This is the perfect activity for a sub station or a quick review. Give the students time to create four or eight beat patterns. I purchased the Target mini Easter egg erasers. The students can be creative on how they show their pattern. Have them clap their rhythms, play their rhythms or find words for their rhythms. The possibilities are endless. I would laminate the cards so that the students could use dry erase markers to draw stems on the notes.
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1st - 5th
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Another Guide to Lyric Writing
This 1-page PDF contains 7 steps (+ 1 optional step) which might help your students access lyric writing. It utilising mind mapping as its main features but is also helpful in that it clearly structures the process.
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6th - 10th
Pastilles de figures rythmiques
Idéales pour la création musicale!1. Choisissez le format désiré et faites 6 copies noir et blanc des pages de figures rythmiques: 9 cm ou 14 cm 2. Plastifiez puis, découpez les pastilles.3. Fixez les pastilles sur des aimants autocollants.4. Profitez bien!
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16-Beat Composition Worksheet
This very simple worksheet can be used to have your students write a 16-beat rhythm composition. It encourages practice and revision. In my classroom we use this to help students write their rhythm compositions for a class rhythm recital!
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2nd - 5th
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Electronica Music
This resources provides a summary on key features and the development of a broad range of electronica based music genres. It includes a performance activity which demonstrates how altering a tempo can make the music sound like a different genre.
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9th - 11th, Higher Education
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C Major Pentascale and Chords
This product outlines three of the C Pentascales: Low, Middle, and High. It also outlines the I and V7 chord in C Major for bass clef. I used this material as a way to outline what students needed to know for the music that they were trying to learn. Vocabulary: Pentascale, Tonic, Dominant, Chord, Triad
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6th - 12th, Higher Education
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Music Theory - I Can Statements
"I Can" statements for music theory, sorted into 3 different levels. Content in each level is connected to Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory.
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8th - 12th
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Parts of the Staff Notes
Note taking page for beginning the Parts of the Staff.
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9th - 12th
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