In Year 9 students can select a pathway to follow. The music production pathway builds the necessary skills needed for Key Stage 4 success. Students will explore how to record audio in the studio, and mix audio using EQ, FX, balance, panning, and processors. Students will explore how to build and produce a whole music track looking at EDM and understand how to compose for a film by exploring different techniques. Students will study grade 1 and 2 theory to have a firm understanding of the fundamentals of music.
| Term | Topic | Key Content |
| Autumn | Rhythm and texture: drumming music | - Layer up parts and using technology
- Explore a range of drumming music from around the world (Djembe, samba and modern dance drum beats)
- Compose, perform and produce your own rhythm on drums and Logic Pro
- Create drum beats and dance music using Logic Pro
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| Composition: Protest songs | - Learn how to respond to a brief
- Develop Logic Pro skills to record and produce your music
- Explore chords and riffs to build your composition skills
- Discover how music can be used as a form of expression and to support a cause
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| Spring | Production: Video game music | - Explore existing video game music and how it is used to enhance the experience
- Compose a piece of video game music influenced by a popular video games
- Explore adaptive music and the impact on players
- Develop your production skills to add effects, mix and master
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| Summer | Responding to a brief: arranging production | - Understand the client, target audience, aims, and objectives of the brief
- Choose, research and listen to a style for your production
- Create an arrangement that fulfills the brief using harmony, timbre, rhythm, texture and melody
- Explore how to arrange a piece of music into a different style
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Year 9 Knowledge
