Year 8 Music
In Year 8, students complete a semester of Music with two different topics. The main instrumental focus for year 8 is the guitar.
The semester begins with lots of Rock and Pop music in the unit "Music Now!" which explores music from 1995 to now.
Then students look to the silver screens and explore how film music adds to the magic of Movies.
Music Now
In this unit students explored Rock and Pop Music from 2000 to now. Every students learnt the basics of guitar playing through chords and basslines.
Blues Compositions
After learning all about the 12-bar blues and performing it on the guitar the next challenge for students was to create a blues composition using classic rock instruments and following the blues progression.
Have a listen to some of the star composers!
Shivani R.
Olivia H.
Charlie L.
Group Performances
Check out students from 8.3 performing versions of songs from the Rock or Pop genres. Their task was to create a band including melody, chords, bass and percussion.
Alex C.
Banners' "Someone to you" performed by Daniel, Ben & Ekzekiel.
Passenger's "Let her go"performed by
Ryan, Julianne, Amy
Maya, Emma &
Daniel
Breakbot's "Baby I'm yours" performed by Jack, Dihein, Zac, Dian & Lucas
Film Music
Screen Sounds explores all the music behind great movie moments with students learning about how music can influence the mood and setting of a scene and character development throughout a film.
Film Performances
In this unit, the students kept developing their guitar skills and performed movie themes and character motifs using fingerpicking technique in duets.
"Hedwig's Theme" from Harry Potter performed by Olivia, Nishtha, Barsam and Alex.
Film Compositions
Film composer "Who am I?" by Barsam
"Bond Theme" from James Bond performed by Holly, Massa, Jadon and Charlie.
During online learning, music students created film music soundtracks using Digital Audio Workstations and pre-composed loops. They chose a silent video and created a soundtrack to match the scene.
Here is Kevin's composition - it is safe to say that he had all the CAPA staff in fits of giggles when he submitted this!
