Year 9 · Music · beta
Harmonic progressions and bass lines
In this unit pupils extend their understanding of harmonic progressions, learning about ground bass and triadic harmony.
This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.
Prior knowledge
- Pupils know how to find notes on the treble clef and play them on the keyboard
- Pupils can play a melody on the keyboard and move out of position
- Pupils can play the triads C, F, G and Am and understand how to find a triad
- Pupils know the rhythmic values minims, crotchets and quavers
- Pupils have performed chords and musical lines in the left hand
- Pupils understand that bass lines in the first instance work around the root of the chord
- Pupils have composed a chord sequence progression with bass line
Source curriculum references
- Play and perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice, playing instruments musically, fluently and with accuracy and expression
- Identify and use the interrelated dimensions of music expressively and with increasing sophistication, including use of tonalities, different types of scales and other musical devices
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