Music

Music at Greenside

Extra-Curricular Music Lessons at Greenside

At Greenside we are able to offer keyboard, guitar and drum lessons on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. If you are interested in your child starting music lessons in school and would like more information, please get in touch.

Keyboard lessons occur on a Monday afternoon. Our pupils are doing really well and are developing their skills. Enjoy watching them in the clips below:

Keyboard Lessons

Keyboard lessons

Here are some clips of our pupils in their guitar lessons.

Music at Greenside

Music at Greenside.pdf

Music for Mental Health

Whether you love to listen to music, join in singing, do some actions and dancing or make music of your own, music can make us feel good inside and out. Below are some songs chosen especially to celebrate Children's Mental Health Week from February 3rd to 9th February 2021 but you can enjoy them any time!

Sesame Street: Bruno Mars: Don't Give Up

Bruno Mars sings about not giving up!If you're watching videos with your preschooler and would like to do so in a safe, child-friendly environment, please jo...

Feel-Good Song Lists

In the folder below, you will find child friendly playlists with songs to inspire and motivate you and make you feel happy. The lists include great tunes and catchy pop songs that you will know and some you might not. All are appropriate and suitable for primary age children. Enjoy!

Greenside Weekly Playlists

Body Percussion Resources

Below are some fantastic body percussion resources you could use at home or in school. Simply follow the links below. They are sorted into EYFS/KS1 and KS2 but there is no reason why you can't try the resources from either folder.

Useful Music Links

BBC Bring the Noise A huge range of musical videos, songs, activities and ideas for you to explore.

Charanga Yumu Home Access Yumu is the home learning area of Charanga, the music scheme used in school. Pupils have been given login details but if you don't have yours, please request from your child's class teacher.

Classics for Kids A website designed to help children learn about classical music.

BBC Ten Pieces Classical Music Ten Pieces is an exciting initiative for primary and secondary age students led by BBC Learning and the BBC Performing Groups. Its aim is to open up the world of classical music to a new generation of children. Explore the stories and secrets hidden in this set of forty classical pieces of music.

BBC Bitesize Music Learn all about musical language such as rhythm, pitch, harmony, pulse, tempo and melody.

World Music Composer Listen to clips of music from around the world and use them to create your own composition.

Musical Mysteries Have fun solving the musical mysteries on this BBC site. You can compose your own music and find out about different sounds, rhythms, moods and musical instruments. You will need Flash player.

The Greenside Songbook

Click on a song below to hear it being played with and without the words. Enjoy singing along!

Superstar Musicians of Greenside

Send us your video or audio clips of you singing along to the songs on this page or to songs of your own choice or playing an instrument. Let's showcase your superstar musical talent! Simply email your tier group email address with your clip.

Learn More About Musical Instruments

Click the videos below to learn about the different instruments that make up the orchestra. Which ones do you like the sound of? Which ones would you like to have a go at playing if you could?

Watch the videos of different types of orchestra playing, from ice to vegetables to robots!

Conductor What is the conductor's job in an orchestra?

Brass Instruments What brass instruments can be found in an orchestra?

String Instruments What string instruments can be found in an orchestra?

Woodwind Instruments What woodwind instruments can be found in an orchestra?

William Tell Overture performed by the National Orchestra of Wales Listen to an orchestra perform William Tell Overture by Rossini. You will want to gallop along!

Ice Orchestra This orchestra is made from ice instruments- cool!

Robot Orchestra Instruments here are being played by robots!

Vegetable Orchestra Watch the 'Carrot Get Enough' orchestra perform with vegetable instruments!

Learn More About Musical Language

What are pulse and rhythm? Learn all about pulse and rhythm in this BBC Bitesize video.

What are melody and pitch? Find out about melody and pitch in this BBC Bitesize video.

What are duration and tempo? Find out about duration and tempo in this BBC Bitesize video.

What is harmony? Find out about harmony in this BBC Bitesize video.

What is notation? Find out about notation in this BBC Bitesize video.

What is structure? Find out about structure in this BBC Bitesize video.

What are dynamics? Find out about dynamics in this BBC Bitesize video.

What is texture? Find out about texture in this BBC Bitesize video.

VE Day Sing-A- Long

Below you will find a link to Tom Carradine's VE Day Live 15 minute Sing-A-Long on YouTube which is happening on Thursday 7th May at 11am. The broadcast will then be available on his YouTube channel if you cannot make the live stream. Through the link, you will also find 3 of the songs separately to practise beforehand or afterwards. These are Run Rabbit Run, Mairzy Doats and Dozy Doats and We'll Meet Again. Please also see the attached song words. This resource is aimed at primary age pupils.

Tom Carradine's VE Day Sing-A-Long

Tom Carradine's VE Sing-A-Long Words.pdf