Year 8 · Music · beta

Reggaeton: from Puerto Rico to global phenomenon

Pupils are introduced to Reggaeton, including the context of the style and the influences. They learn about the dembow beat, the tresillo and hooks and riffs. They also develop their understanding of DAW capabilities including low-pass filter sweeps.

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 record and sequence basic rhythmic patterns
Pupils know how that a bass line is based on the notes of a chord, particularly the root note
Pupils know timbre can be altered on a DAW and the musical impact of doing so
Pupils have experience improvising over a track
Pupils know what a syncopated rhythm is and how to identify one
Pupils are aware of the main features of pop music
Pupils are aware of semiquavers
Pupils know that the kick drum plays on beats 1 and 3 in typical drum beat and four to the floor in EDM.
Pupils know that the hi-hat often plays quavers throughout the bar

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
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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