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The sound of 90s grunge

This unit introduces pupils to 90s Grunge music, including the context of the style and its other musical influences. Pupils learn about the main musical features and about extended pop song structure, riffs with power chords, harmonic rhythm and phrase structure in melody and lyric writing.

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 create the foundation of a track using chords and drum grooves
Pupils have experience improvising over a track in one key
Pupils know how to create drum fills at the ends of phrases
Pupils know timbre can be altered on a DAW and the musical impact of doing so

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

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

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