16 videos

The First Lesson

This flute pupil recounts her experience of a friendly first lesson at school.

Whole Class Set Up: Guitar

Whole class teaching is a partnership between the school and the visiting music teachers.

Preparing for Down Time

In this example the instrumental specialist teacher must tune 30 instruments.

Y6 Brass Performance

This brass group was introduced to the beginning of Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Rhythm Cards

Rhythm cards are a useful starter activity for many aspects of teaching. In this example, the teacher uses an ipad to...

Choir Warm Up: Me Moo Ma

This classroom practitioner has developed a large school choir in a diverse school.

Choir Warm Up: Articulation

This classroom practitioner develops the choir warm up further into articulation.

Action Songs

Encouraging an extra-curricular group must involve an element of fun.

Building Confidence and Participation

This classroom practitioner is in the early stages of building a school choir.

Choir Repertoire

This school choir begin approaching new repertoire by learning the African words.

Musical Elements Starter

This classroom practitioner uses whiteboards to recap the musical elements.

Focused Listening

This classroom practitioner uses Saint Saen’s Carnival of the animals to scaffold a composition lesson.

Connecting Physically with Singing

In this Y8 classroom music lesson the teacher takes the class through a series of vocal warm up activities which conn...

Developing Violin Staccato

In this advanced group violin lesson, the students are taken through a series of tasks and activities to develop the ...

Effective string crossing

In this advanced group violin lesson, the teacher breaks the difficulty of 'string crossing' into smaller component p...

Developing Technique Creatively

This experienced string teacher uses a variety of creative games and props to explore advanced flexible wrist and fin...