Music
Google Song Maker
This is a neat program to make music with. Simply click on a box to add a note from a variety of instruments. Or, add some drum beats to the bottom two rows to create a pulse and rhythm.
York Arts Education
The York Arts Education group are offering a variety of online courses and sessions for various instruments. These are not free sessions, but there might something here that interests you. Thank you to the parent who brought this resource to our attention.
Music Appraisal
As part of our music curriculum, we ask you to listen to pieces of music and say what you think of them. This is called music appraisal.
From now on, a piece of music will appear regularly on this page as a YouTube link for you to listen to. The music will be different styles. When you listen to it, try to answer these questions:
- Do you like it? Why or why not?
- What instruments can you hear?
- How does the music make you feel?
- Try to describe the music in one or two words.
Some of the tracks might be quite long. Although it is best to listen to the whole track, listening to 3 or 4 minutes should be enough for you to answer the questions. It's ok not to like a piece of music, but can you then explain why you do not like it? Hopefully you will find something new that you like. As usual, take care when using YouTube and if anything appears that you are not happy with, turn the screen off and tell an adult.
If you would like to email your answers, or you would like to make comments about any of the pieces of music, send them to y3@scarcroft.southbank.academy with the title of the music.
The Koto

If you have taken advantage of the free parent log in (available here), then you can also use the Music Express resources. This is a full set of lessons and resources for all Primary ages (from Reception to Year 6) and comes in six lots of six lessons for each year group. It has everything you need to learn more about music and join in with some of the singing, pulse and rhythm and appraisal lessons.
If you have your own ukulele (or access to one) then this link takes you to all the ukulele lessons and songs that you have learned with Mrs Martin in Year 3 (and some songs that you have not learned!) Each lession shows you what strings or chords to play and plays the song.
Although Mrs Martin normally asks us not to tune ukuleles ourselves, this song will help by demonstrating what each string should sound like. Turn the tuning pegs at the top of the ukulele carefully but please do not turn them too much or the string may snap. This activity will certainly need adult supervision to begin with.