Topic Five (1.5): Explore the complex elements

Topics Icon.png Objectives for this topic

In this topic you will be exploring the more complex elements using your chosen instrument/s.

Skills Icon.png Instructions

  • Investigate rhythm, melody, harmony and tone using your chosen instrument/s, for example, playing the same notes in a variety of rhythms, playing a range of tonal triads, creating harmonies and practising specific melodies.

Review Icon.png Review

Please ask your instrumental teacher to listen to you playing a specific rhythm, melody and harmony.  Did you play accurately? Could you harmonise with your teacher? Could you identify the melody pattern? Use the ‘Explore’ questions in the Year 7 Musical Elements Workbook to help structure your studies.

Bridge Icon.png  Support activity for this topic

This video helps explain what musical phrases are:

WATCH - Musical Phrases (youtube) Links to an external site.

You can use this to help identify a musical phrase in one of your pieces and try playing it in different ways to create different emotions.

Stretch Icon.png Extension activity for this topic

Complete the challenge exercise on page 10 of your Grade 3 book. Then practise playing the new rhythm you have created, as well as the original rhythm, to explore the changes made.