Year 9 · Music · beta

Working out pop hooks and riffs by ear

This unit focuses on developing pupils' ability to work out simple melodic ideas from modern pop and rock songs by ear. It introduces techniques for accurately recreating rhythm and pitch patterns, and also develops their understanding of how to recreate specific timbres accurately.

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 have enough fluency on the keyboard to play a riff
Pupils know how to create a simple drum groove in a DAW
Pupils know how to create tracks in a DAW and choose instruments
Pupils are familiar with the concepts of texture, timbre, dynamics and instrumentation
Pupils understand how to use all basic functions (e.g. record, quantise, selecting instruments) in a DAW

Source curriculum references

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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