Composing and Performing a Leavers' Song

• Identify and evaluate the musical features of a song

• Contribute ideas to their group chorus, suggesting how lines three and four could rhyme

• Contribute ideas to their group verse, suggesting how lines one and four and five and eight could rhyme

• Fit an existing melody over a four-chord backing track

• Create a melody that fits both the lyrics and the four-chord backing track of the chorus, using tuned percussion instruments

• Record melodies using letter notations

• Perform the leavers’ song with confidence

Key Knowledge

To know that:

• A chord progression is a sequence of chords that repeats throughout a song.

• A melody can be adapted by changing its dynamics, pitch or tempo.

• Chord progressions are represented in music by Roman numerals