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EDM remixing

In this unit, pupils learn about EDM (electronic dance music), the main features of the style and the impact these features have on creating excitement in the music and a danceable groove. They learn about arranging through creating a remix of a famous melody.

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 use the kick, snare and hi-hat to create and quantise a drum groove using crotchets and quavers
  • Pupils know that silence in music is represented by rests
  • Pupils know how to find and play triad chords on a keyboard
  • Pupils understand the meaning of the word timbre
  • Pupils have used a DAW before and are competent with the basic functions (record, play, delete, copy, cut etc.)

Source curriculum references

  • Improvise and compose; and extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions
  • 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
  • Listen with increasing discrimination to a wide range of music from great composers and musicians
  • Develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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