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Singing, playing and inventing
The building blocks are sorted by grade band. What a building block builds on is on its own page.
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Grade 5/6
- Posture and breathing for singing (gap, no app yet)
- Voice care and warm-up (gap, no app yet)
- Diction and intonation (gap, no app yet)
- Pitch matching (gap, no app yet)
- Echo singing (gap, no app yet)
- Singing songs from memory (gap, no app yet)
- Singing in two parts (gap, no app yet)
- Instrumental technique (gap, no app yet)
- Clapping back rhythms (gap, no app yet)
- Building rhythm patterns (gap, no app yet)
- Note patterns in time (gap, no app yet)
- Accompanying songs on the beat (gap, no app yet)
- Playing in a class ensemble (gap, no app yet)
- Listening to each other (gap, no app yet)
- Practice strategies (gap, no app yet)
- Leading a group (gap, no app yet)
- Free sound exploration (gap, no app yet)
- Creating rhythms (gap, no app yet)
- Creating melodies (gap, no app yet)
- Setting text to music (gap, no app yet)
- Varying a song (gap, no app yet)
- Music for a picture or story (gap, no app yet)
Grade 7/8
Grade 9/10
- Singing in style (gap, no app yet)
- Part singing in a choir (gap, no app yet)
- Expressive instrumental playing (gap, no app yet)
- Performing pieces in parts (gap, no app yet)
- Reviewing and improving performance (gap, no app yet)
- Organising group music-making (gap, no app yet)
- Creating a harmonic accompaniment (gap, no app yet)
- Composing a piece (gap, no app yet)
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An app stays in one strand. It starts with one building block and grows along the learning path with each new version, for example from grade 5 to 10.