Music · Grade 3

Skills

• Sings loudly and softly on purpose; shapes a phrase.
• Holds their own part in a round or a canon.
• Recognises 2-, 3- and 4-beat metres and counts them.
• Reads and performs simple rhythmic notation.
• Reads the note values: whole, half, quarter, eighth, and their rests.
• Knows higher on the stave means higher in pitch.
• Plays with correct posture and technique for the instrument.
• Practises regularly, and understands practice is what makes the difference.
• Identifies the families of the orchestra: strings, woodwind, brass, percussion.
• Makes up a short tune or rhythm of their own.