Music · Grade 5

Skills

• Has a repertoire of songs they can sing well, from more than one tradition.
• Warms up their voice and knows not to strain it.
• Performs a syncopated rhythm accurately.
• Follows a conductor or a count-in, and comes in on the right beat.
• Sight-reads a simple melody on their instrument and plays it correctly.
• Follows a score while listening to it being played.
• Writes down a short melody or rhythm they invented, so someone else could play it.
• Performs a prepared piece in front of an audience, from a score.
• Learns a new short piece largely on their own.
• Tunes or sets up their own instrument, and looks after it.
• Recognises several major styles: classical, folk, jazz, rock, pop, and music from at least one other tradition.
• Names several composers or musicians and something they are known for.
• Says why they like a piece, in terms of what is actually happening in it.