Building block · what is that?

12-bar blues

“Ich kann das 12-taktige Blues-Schema hören und spielen.”

Strand: Form and structure
Grade band: Grade 7/8
Source: Kerncurriculum Hessen, Sekundarstufe I - Gymnasium, Musik (Hessisches Kultusministerium), mit Lehrplan Musik G9 Hessen

The chain

What you need before and what comes after, step by step.

Builds on · 22

Step 1

Focused listening · strand Listening to music and describing it

Step 2

Musical parameters · strand Listening to music and describing it
Hearing major and minor · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Sections A and B

Step 3

High and low notes · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Repetition and contrast

Step 4

Piano keyboard · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Repeated notes, steps and leaps · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Staff and treble clef · strand Notation and signs
Simple song forms

Step 5

Counting semitones · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Naming intervals · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Note names · strand Notation and signs
Pop song structure directly

Step 6

Tones and semitones · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Triad · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Accidentals · strand Notation and signs

Step 7

Major scale · strand Pitch, scales and harmony

Step 8

Structure of the minor scale · strand Pitch, scales and harmony
Key signatures · strand Pitch, scales and harmony

Step 9

Major and minor triads · strand Pitch, scales and harmony

Step 10

Tonic, subdominant, dominant · strand Pitch, scales and harmony directly

This building block · Step 11

12-bar blues

Built on directly by

Step 12

Jazz · strand Music in context

The whole chain in the map by steps

When is it taught?

Each curriculum sets in which grade a building block is taught. Without a chosen curriculum, the map shows the grade band.

Placement	Grade	In the curriculum	Status
Grade band	7/8	holds where no curriculum is chosen or captured	kept in the catalog
Other states (16)	–	–	not captured yet

Other states, not captured yet: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia

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