1. Year 7 Music revision Your music exam will be next lesson. It will be a listening exam, where you are played music and asked questions about them. It will cover all the topics you have done this year, plus some general music questions. There is a copy of this powerpoint on misswerrysclasses.com Use it to revise!

2. The Elements of Music ContrastElement Pitch Duration Tempo Dynamics Timbre Texture Structure SILENCE! …all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!

3. The Elements of Music ContrastElement High/lowPitch Long/shortDuration Fast/slowTempo Loud/softDynamics Tone colour Timbre Thick/thinTexture The overall plan Structure SILENCE! …all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!

4. Can you identify each part of the kit? A A B B C C D D E E F F 1: Snare 2: Kick/bass drum 3: Hi-hat 4: Ride 5: Crash 6: Toms

5. Can you identify each part of the kit? toms ride crash Hi- hat snare Kick/ bass

6. What are the different families of instruments?

8. Which family does this instrument belong to? Why?

9. Which family does this instrument belong to? The saxophone is a woodwind instrument – even though it is made of metal. This is because it has a reed, just like a clarinet.

10. What type of instrument is the piano?

11. The piano is a percussion instrument, because the hammers hit the strings.

12. Basic music theory: rhythm and time signatures

13. Basic music theory: rhythm NameSymbolHow many beats? 2 quavers:

14. Basic music theory: rhythm NameSymbolHow many beats? Crotchet1 Minim2 Semibreve4 Quaver½ each Rest1 2 quavers:

15. Musical Instruments All instruments have a different timbre. You will need to be able to tell certain instruments apart in your exam. Watch the following videos to see what the different instruments sound like…

16. String Family Woodwind Family Brass Family Percussion Family

17. See this video for types of Guitarthis video

18. Chords Remember the 3 chord mashup project? This was based around Next To Me and the 3 chords that repeated over and over. What is a chord? Here is a chord. This example is a C chord (because it starts on C). If you play any two (or more) notes together, you have made a chord.

19. Why do we use chords? They create harmony. – This is when two notes play together to create a thicker texture and (usually) a pleasant sounding backing. The next video shows a guitar playing lots of different chords:

20. Have a look on the next slide to see how chords can accompany any instrument. In modern music are nearly always used to accompany singers: Start watching from 40 secs in…

21. See this video for an example of singers alone.this video If the singers are just on their own with no instruments, they are singing a cappella