Year 3 Composition Work

In Year 3, we build upon the excellent notation and composition work started in Year 1 and 2, but now we start to draw our musical notes more formally on the stave.  We use a series of ‘sports rhythms’ to help us build more extended composition and then separate our notes into 4-beat bars using bar lines.

There is so much to think about, but our current Year 3s have done a brilliant job, both on drawing their notes accurately and clearly, but also on creating interesting and well-thought out compositions.

Here are some examples of their compositions and some evaluations given after reflecting on what they’d composed.  (The compositions and evaluations have come from different pupils!)

Y3 Chime Bar Playing

In Y3 we have been learning to play the chime bars.  This takes considerable dexterity, but is exciting as we have a whole octave of notes each, so can play some really exciting music.

We have been learning how to play our chime bars using good technique, as well as reading.