Lessons:

• • 1. Verse and Chorus

  • 2. The Musical Bridge

  • 3. Pre-Chorus

  • 4. Transposition in Music (Soundtrap)

  • 5. Introductions

  • 6. Using the Loop Tool in Soundtrap

  • 7. Quantization and the Piano Roll

  • 8. Song Organization

  • 9. Organizing Your Sections Into A Song

Assignments:

• • Assignment 1: Verse and Chorus

  • Assignment 2: The Musical Bridge

  • Assignment 3: The Pre-Chorus

  • Assignment 4: Analyzing Introductions

  • Assignment 5: Create a Verse in Soundtrap

  • Assignment 6: Create a Chorus

  • Assignment 7: Fix This Melody

  • Assignment 8: Compose Your Bridge

  • Assignment 9: Song Evaluation

  • Assignment 10: Analyze and Organize "Adore You"

  • Assignment 11: Organize Your Sections Into a Song

  • Cumulative Assignment: Song with Verse, Chorus, and Bridge

Unit 2 Test Review

Unit 2: Tests

Standards:

• Cn 11.1 Interrelate: Creating, performing and analyzing music deepens our knowledge of ideas, informs our understanding of cultures, and helps us envision the future.

• Cr2.1 Musicians’ creative choices are influenced by their expertise, context, and expressive intent.

• Cr3.2 Present: Share creative musical work that conveys intent, demonstrates craftsmanship, and exhibits originality.

• Pr5.1 Rehearse, Evaluate, Refine To express their musical ideas, musicians analyze, evaluate, and refine their performance over time through openness to new ideas.

• Re9.1 Evaluate: Support evaluations of musical works and performances, based on analysis, interpretation, and established criteria.

Essential Questions:

• What are the parts of a song?

• What function do they play in expressing what a musician wants to convey?

• How is a song structured?

• How does an introduction, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, and coda work together to convey the emotion of a song?

• What is a melody?

• What is a motif?

• What is a chord progression?

• What is a beat?

• What is a measure?

• What is transposition?

• What is quantization?

• What is looping?

• How does one write a melody using motifs?

Enduring Questions:

• How do musical artists use form to express their emotions?

• What role does repetition and variation play in composition of music?

• Why have the same song structures and chord progression been used for so many songs?

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to identify the parts of a song (verse, pre-chorus, chorus, and bridge). Students will learn to compose melodies using motifs in C Major.

• Students will use recording software to compose an original song that contains a verse, chorus, and a bridge.

• Students will write melodies that contain two motifs.

• Students will use the software tools of quantization, transposition, and looping to correct recording errors and build musical ideas.

• Students will learn characteristics of verses, choruses, pre-choruses, and bridges.

• Students will learn to use samples to create beats and chord progressions.

• Students will learn how structure is used to express emotion.

Sequence of Learning:

• 1. Verse

  2. Chorus

  3. Bridge

  4. Pre-Chorus

  5. Introductions

  6. Transposition

  7. Looping

  8. Quantization

Assessments:

• Pre-assessment and post-assessments on song elements

• Soundtrap original song project

• Weekly test on key terms and concepts.

Performance Task:

Compose a song in Soundtrap that has a verse, chorus, and bridge. Each section of the song must be at least eight measures long, have a unique chord progression, have a melody made up of at least two motifs, and include a drum track created with the "beat pattern maker" or drum loops.