Lower Secondary – 2020 Online
On this page you will find free, fully interactive and self-contained lessons for lower secondary students. Teaching everything from beat, rhythm, crotchets, quavers, and crotchet rests, rhythmic writing and sightreading, instant rhythmic dictation (clever echo) and how to do rhythmic dictations to scales, modes and chord progressions (click here for the harder stuff). These lessons teach the music language and literacy in a rich, sequential, developmental and engaging way, using music education tools such as movable do solfa, rhythm (time) names and many other innovative techniques.
Each PDF comes complete with embedded links to teaching and practicing videos, audio files of all examples and transcription exercises PLUS the answers on a separate PDF.
How to use:
- Share the "Link to Lesson ..." for your chosen lesson with your students and ask them to download/save the PDF onto their computer - the links will work best this way.
- Set them to work through the activities by clicking on the icons (taking them to relevant videos and audio files etc). For example, there are five activities in this first lesson - all of which could be set as an individual activity or all five could be set as a full lesson.
- If they do not own a Level 1, Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Student Book, students will need to print out the worksheets or, alternatively, they can copy the exercises to be completed onto a blank piece of paper.
- Once they have completed each or all of the activities, ask them to complete, take a photograph of their completed version and email back to the teacher) by the end of the lesson or, alternatively, they can can correct their answers using the "Link to Lesson ... answers".
Voila! Lesson completed!
Lesson 1
Beat, Rhythm, Rhythm (Time) Names, Crotchets/Quarter Notes, Quavers/Eight Notes and Crotchet/Quarter Note Rests
(Based on Lesson 1 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 1 and 2).
Level 1 Lesson 1 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 1: https://zurl.co/oxT4
Link to Lesson 1 answers: https://zurl.co/hmGY
Lesson 2
Staff, Stems, Treble Clef and Pitch
(Based on Lesson 2 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 3 and 4).
Level 1 Lesson 2 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 2: https://zurl.co/6RHS
Link to Lesson 2 answers: https://zurl.co/HO3K
Lesson 3
Metre, 2 Metre Conducting Pattern, Time Signatures, Bars and Barlines
(Based on Lesson 3 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 5 and 6).
Level 1 Lesson3 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 3: https://zurl.co/eV9G
Link to Lesson 3 answers: https://zurl.co/WIlZ
Lesson 4
Solfa, do re and mi and Handsigns
(Based on Lesson 4 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 7 and 8).
Level 1 Lesson 4 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 4: https://zurl.co/TXqP
Link to Lesson 4 answers: https://zurl.co/s48s
Lesson 5
Intervals, Step, Skip, Stick notation and Staff notation
(Based on Lesson 5 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 9 and 10).
Level 1 Lesson 5 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 5: https://zurl.co/0A8q
Link to Lesson 5 answers: https://zurl.co/kIbN
Lesson 6
Letter Names, F, G and A, and the Conducting Patterns for 3 and 4 metre
(Based on Lesson 6 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 11 and 12).
Level 1 Lesson 6 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 6: https://zurl.co/r7m2
Link to Lesson 6 answers: https://zurl.co/AHWD
Lesson 7
Moveable do Solfa, G, A and B
(Based on Lesson 7 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 13 and 14).
Level 1 Lesson 7 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 7: https://zurl.co/b6wE
Link to Lesson 7 answers: https://zurl.co/gpIf
Lesson 8
Semiquavers and Performance Indications
(Based on Lesson 8 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 15 and 16).
Level 1 Lesson 8 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 8: https://zurl.co/9rBs
Link to Lesson 8 answers: https://zurl.co/okV6
Lesson 9
The Tone Set
(Based on Lesson 9 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 17 and 18).
Level 1 Lesson 9 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 9: https://zurl.co/jtI1
Link to Lesson 9 answers: https://zurl.co/QS4g
Lesson 10
Transposition
(Based on Lesson 10 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 19 and 20).
Level 1 Lesson 10 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 10: https://zurl.co/Dyq2
Link to Lesson 10 answers: https://zurl.co/vLkI
Lesson 11
A new note and a new interval
(Based on Lesson 11 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 21 and 22).
Level 1 Lesson 11 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 11: https://zurl.co/LFyY
Link to Lesson 11 answers: https://zurl.co/0dbL
Lesson 12
The Minim, Dotted Minim and Semibreve
(Based on Lesson 12 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 23 and 24).
Level 1 Lesson 12 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 12: https://zurl.co/Qhfs
Link to Lesson 12 answers: https://zurl.co/jVMM
Lesson 13
The Phrase, Rhythmic Form and Canons
(Based on Lesson 13 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 25 and 26).
Level 1 Lesson 13 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 13: https://zurl.co/eYU7
Link to Lesson 13 answers: https://zurl.co/lXLx
Lesson 14
Combination rhythm: quaver/two semiquavers (ti-tika)
(Based on Lesson 14 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 27 and 28).
Level 1 Lesson 14 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 14: https://zurl.co/WWj1
Link to Lesson 14 answers: https://zurl.co/Fsg8
Lesson 15
A New do and the Ledger Line
(Based on Lesson 15 in the Musicianship & Aural Training for the Secondary School Level 1 Books, Pages 29 and 30.
Level 1 Lesson 15 - Fully Interactive PDF:
Link to Lesson 15: https://zurl.co/EhmR
Link to Lesson 15 answers: https://zurl.co/qITM