1. Year 7 Music revision
Use it to revise!
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.

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

3. The Elements of Music SILENCE! Contrast Element High/low Pitch
…all the way from the start of Year 7… you should know all of these!
The Elements of Music
Contrast
Element
High/low
Pitch
Long/short
Duration
Fast/slow
Tempo
Loud/soft
Dynamics
Tone colour
Timbre
Thick/thin
Texture
The overall plan
Structure
SILENCE!

4. What are the different families of instruments?

5. What are the different families of instruments?

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

7. 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.

8. What type of instrument is the piano?

9. What type of instrument is the piano?
The piano is a percussion instrument, because the hammers hit the strings.

10. Basic music theory: rhythm and time signatures

11. Basic music theory: rhythm
Name
Symbol
How many beats?
2 quavers:

12. Basic music theory: rhythm
Name
Symbol
How many beats?
Crotchet 1
Minim 2
Semibreve 4
Quaver
½ each
Rest
2 quavers:

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

14. String Family

15. Woodwind Family

16. Brass Family

17. Percussion Family

18. Types of Guitar

19. Chords Remember the 4 Chords project? What is a chord?
This was based around 4 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.

20. This video shows a guitar playing lots of different chords:
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.
This video shows a guitar playing lots of different chords:

21. Start watching from 40 secs in…
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Chords can accompany any instrument but in modern music are nearly always used to accompany singers:
If the singers are just on their own with no instruments, they are singing a cappella: