Music Year 8

Did you know that music is one of the only activities that uses your entire brain at once? Learning music can improve your memory, boost your creativity, and help you learn in other subjects too!

The Year 8 Music course is part of the options programme and runs for approximately 20 weeks. You’ll have six lessons over each 10-day timetable cycle.

This course builds your musical skills through performance, composition, and music knowledge, and helps prepare you for Year 9 Music and beyond.

In this course, you will learn:

• Basic guitar skills – including how to read tab, strum, and pick
• Music knowledge – including theory, notation, and listening skills
• About film music – its key features, how composers create emotion, and how music supports what’s happening on screen. You’ll analyse scenes and present one to the class

Assessments:

• 8.1 Demonstrate knowledge of music

• 8.2 Demonstrate guitar skills

• 8.3 Discuss and describe the uses of music in a context