• Verbalise feelings about music and identify likes and dislikes

• Read musical notation and play the correct notes of the rag

• Improvise along to a drone and tal

• Play a rag and tal accurately alongside a drone

• Sing accurately from musical notation and lyrics

• Sing and play in time with others with some degree of accuracy and awareness of each other’s parts

Key Knowledge

To know that:

• ‘Indian music uses all of the sounds in between the 12 'notes' that we are used to in western music.

• A 'tala' is a set rhythm that is repeated over and over, usually on the drums called 'tabla'.

• A 'rag' is the tune in traditional Indian music, and is often played on a stringed instrument called a 'sitar'

• A 'drone' in music is a note that goes on and on, staying the same, a bit like someone humming a long-held note.

• Many types of music from around the world consist of more than one layer of sound; for example a ‘tala’ and ‘rag’ in traditional Indian music