Music guides for every year group
Choose your year to see what you are learning this year, with guides, rules and practice tools for each topic.
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Key Stage 3
- Year 7Your first year of music: singing in parts, keeping a steady beat, and playing chords on keyboard and ukulele.
- Year 8Chord patterns that power popular music, and your first steps with inversions and bass lines.
- Year 9Styles from around the world, seventh chords and riffs, and a songwriting project to finish.
GCSEOCR GCSE Music
A-level, Year 13
The Chorale Checker
Enter your four-part Bach chorale harmonisation and get every consecutive, doubled leading note and range problem, listed by bar, beat and part. The guide alongside it teaches you exactly how chorales work.
- Checks all six pairs of parts for consecutive 5ths and octaves
- Explains each problem and links to the lesson that covers it
- Uses the department's own marking rules and severity levels