A piece from Lancashire Music Service's scheme of work for french horn. Composed by Keith Sagar.
Official classification: Pieces, French Horn, Charanga, Lancashire Music Service, SMILE
Note names: G
Interactive 6-channel audio mixer allowing users to explore then record their own mix of loops to the rap track or create a rap backing with a grime house feel.
Official classification: Rehearsing, Sound Production, Interactive Activities, Charanga, Channel Mixer, Hip Hop Coach
Exploring different approaches to writing rap lyrics, focussing on improving imagery through description. Compares two rap verses, with the same subject matter to highlight different ways to paint a picture and improve descriptive lyrics.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Rap Activities, Hip Hop Coach
Exploring different approaches to writing rap lyrics, focussing on improving descriptive language. Compares two rap verses, with the same subject matter to highlight different ways to describe a scene or event and improve descriptive lyrics.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Rap Activities, Hip Hop Coach
This is a spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, about subjects for rap lyrics and the messages they give. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There are also relevant audio clips, photographs and lyrics excerpts. Topics explored are: dumbing down, party tunes, social comment, other subjects, opinions .
Official classification: Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Hip hop, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, party, gangsta, Chicken Noodle Soup, 8th Wonder, Sugarhill Gang, Chuck D, The Message, Grandmaster Flash, NWA, Dr Dre, Straight Outta Compton, JME, Food
This is a short spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, explaining that rap developed from the West African Griot tradition. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There is also an audio clip of rap with an African sounding drum rhythm.
Official classification: Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Rapping, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, Griot, Last Poets, When The Revolution Comes
Users follow a tutorial that teaches the controls of the Charanga rhythm machine through building a simple hip hop beat from scratch.
Teacher notes:
This is suitable as a first-ever activity using the Charanga rhythm machine. Users learn how to use the controls in the context of creating a hip hop rhythm from scratch, which they can then customise in their own way and save to bank memory. Finally they play back a longer rhythm by switching between the banks they have created. This could be used as a backing while they rap their own lyrics.
Official classification: Rhythm, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Musical Futures, Rhythm Machine, Hip Hop Coach
This is a spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, about the poetry of rap lyrics. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There are also relevant audio clips, photographs and lyrics excerpts. Topics explored are: simile, metaphor, descriptive imagery, abstract imagery
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, imagery, lyrical rap, Rakim, I Got Soul, Common, I Used To Love HER, NAS, NY State Of Mind, Kool Keith, Blue Flowers
An interactive wider opportunites resource for djembe from Andy Gleadhill's 'African Drumming'.
Official classification: Djembe, Pieces, Charanga, SMILE
This Mix and Match resource is one of a range of resources relating to track 05 Rasti Bore of the Saydisc 'Listen To This, KS3' world music recordings. Or it could be used in conjunction with any piece that uses a drone.
The 3 excerpts in the top row all play drones (on different notes). The 3 excerpts in the bottom row all play melodies (in different keys). The task is to match each drone to the melody it fits with best. Users are encouraged to sing the drone note as they test it against the different melodies.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Voice, Drone, Curriculum support, Charanga
There is a single sample pad that triggers a 4-beat drum loop. The backing loop has no drums and pupils need to trigger the sample pad exactly on beat 1 of the backing riff. There is an on-screen beat counter to help then keep their place, which can be turned off as skills progress. Pupils can record and play back their performances for self-evaluation. This is more difficult than you might at first imagine! The natural tendency is to listen to the drums you are triggering rather than whether they are in time with the backing. It takes considerable skill and independence to correct your drum timing in line with a melodic riff.
Curriculum area: Performing
Main focus: Playing on beat 1 of a 4-beat cycle
Possible learning outcomes: Improved rhythmic accuracy. Counting beats in groups of 4. Awareness of Beat 1
Suggestion for where next: Other beat completers to continue improving rhythmic accuracy.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
Tags: synchronise, timing precision, counting beats, sample pad, sample bank
This app works in the musical context of Dubstep style, which has a slower tempo than other Hip Hop styles. There are two sample pads - one triggers an 8-beat bass line, the other an 8=beat pad sound. Pupils need to count the backing as sets of 8 beats and trigger the samples in any order/combination to produce their own texture. They can build up their texture by recording their performances in several layers if they wish. The pad sample allows control of stereo positioning and volume level. There is an on-screen count display to help users keep their place, which can be switched off as skills advance.
Curriculum area: Performing, arranging
Main focus: Playing on beat 1 of an 8-beat cycle. Building simple textures.
Possible learning outcomes:Improved rhythmic accuracy. Counting beats in groups of 8. Awareness of Beat 1. Awareness of texture.
Suggestion for where next: Other beat completers to continue improving rhythmic accuracy.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
Tags: timing precision, counting beats, sample pad, sample bank, composing a texture
Excellent clip that illustrating the concept of building up layers of rhythm, harmony and melodic riffs using sampling and effects to accompany a song or rap, using drums, bass, keys and flute sample. From Fortknight Productions www.myspace.com/fortknightproductions
KS2/3 idea - a superb resource to support a sampling and sequencing session. Play this to pupils and set them the task of producing their own variation using a beat, bassline, keys (Cm chord shown) and melodic line sample (such as flute in example).
Official classification: Loops & Samples, Video, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Charanga
This is a spoken factual presentation , with pause/play/rewind controls, about the influence of early music technology on the evolution of Hip Hop production. There is a synchronised onscreen text transcript with interactive glossary terms. There are also relevant audio clips and photographs. Topics explored are: drum machines, early sampling.
Official classification: Interactive Activities, Presentation Animations, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach
Tags: Hip Hop, sampler, Run DMC, Sucker MCs, Marley Marl, LL Cool J, The Symphony, Big Daddy Kane, sampled drums
There is a grid layout of 13 sample pads - a mixture of percussion sounds and instrumental loops. Pupils can listen to an audio explanation of how to build a beat from scratch, adding additional sounds in new layers. They then freely record their own extended textures to a metronome beat at 95 BPM. They can mute the different layers in and out if they wish as the recording plays back.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Making up a beat from scratch at 95 BPM, recording it in layers, by freely triggering up to 13 different samples
Possible Learning Outcomes: Ability to record own free drum patterns to a 95 BPM metronome click
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There is a grid layout of 8 sample pads - a mixture of percussion sounds and instrumental loops. Some pads are set so that the sample always decays naturally, while others gate the sound immediately on release. An edit panel is available to change this behaviour, or to allow free volume and pan on any sample pad. Pupils can listen to an audio explanation of how to build a beat from scratch, adding additional sounds in new layers. They then freely record their own extended dubstep textures to a metronome beat at 140 BPM. They can mute the different layers in and out if they wish as the recording plays back.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Making up a beat from scratch at 140 BPM, recording it in layers, by freely triggering up to 8 different samples
Possible Learning Outcomes: Ability to record own free dubstep drum patterns to a 140 BPM metronome click
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There is a grid layout of 9 sample pads - a mixture of percussion sounds and instrumental loops. Some pads are set so that the sample always decays naturally, while others gate the sound immediately on release. An edit panel is available to change this behaviour, or to allow free volume and pan on any sample pad. Pupils can listen to an audio explanation of how to build a beat from scratch, adding additional sounds in new layers. They then freely record their own extended electro textures to a metronome beat at 126 BPM. They can mute the different layers in and out if they wish as the recording plays back.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Making up a beat from scratch at 126 BPM, recording it in layers, by freely triggering up to 9 different samples
Possible Learning Outcomes: Ability to record own free electro drum patterns to a 126 BPM metronome click
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There are 2 sample pads (kick and clap). Pupils hear a rhythm pattern and then try to play it on the pads, recording what they do so that they can later evaluate their efforts. There are 3 patterns to copy, increasing in complexity.
Curriculum area: Performing, aural copying
Main focus: Playing beats made from 2 sounds, as heard aurally
Possible Learning Outcomes: Improved skill at reproducing 2-layer beat riffs
Official classification: Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
There is just one sample pad (kick). Pupils hear some examples of dubstep-style kick patterns and then explore recording their own kick rhythms in time to a hats and snare backing, building up in layers if they wish.
Curriculum area: Performing, Composing
Main focus: Inventing kick patterns to go with a given dubstep-style backing
Possible Learning Outcomes: Improved skill at devising/performing more intricate kick rhythms
Official classification: Composing, Performing, Interactive Activities, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach, Beat Completer
Short track by Max Wheeler about making a cup of coffee, composed to illustrate the fact you can write lyrics about whatever you want.
Official classification: Audio, Key Stage 3, Curriculum support, Hip hop, Charanga, Hip Hop Coach