Jazz Daze presents opportunities for pupils to explore jazz and related popular styles in imaginative ways.
At KS3, suggested activities contribute to
- Developing vocal techniques and musical expression
- Improvising, exploring and developing musical ideas when performing
- Developing and extending musical ideas within musical structures and given genres, styles and traditions
- Communicating ideas and feelings about music
- Identifying ICT processes in music
- Responding to music from jazz and popular genres by well-known performers
Where schools have incorporated and adapted units from the KS3 QCA music scheme of work, it will be found that Jazz Daze activities enrich the following units:
Unit 8: Jazz Improvisation
Pupils:
- Learn some basic approaches to improvisation
- Improvise and develop riffs through singing and playing
- Analyse and develop riffs aurally, using ICT as an aid to practice
- Create and use backing tracks
Unit 10: Hooks and Riffs
Pupils:
- Recognise and understand how composers use repeated rhythmic and melodic devices (riffs and hooks)
- Learn how riffs can be created and manipulated using music technology
- Develop simple groove forms
Unit 13: Music and Media
Pupils:
- Identify specific ways in which music and visual images can be brought together
Unit 15: Song (exploring songs and the use of music technology)
Pupils:
- Recognise the impact of ICT
- Recognise how words and music reflect the songwriter's standpoint, purpose and audience