WRITE A BLUES SONG a Middle School Music Project
Music Room in Bloom
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Grade Levels
7th - 8th
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- Google Drive™ folder
Pages
22 Slides, 3 pdfs
Music Room in Bloom
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Description
Get your students singing the Blues with this composition project! Perfect for general music, social studies, or language arts classes, this project can be used any time of year and is great for Black History Month. Designed for Middle School, but can also be used for upper elementary or high school.
This Product Includes:
- A 21-page Google Slide presentation
- basics of the 12-bar blues
- Chord patterns
- Lyrical Patterns
- Embedded video examples
- Instructions for the project below
- A Google Slide Drag-n-Drop Activity
- PDFs - Write your own Blues song project
- Instruction page
- Brainstorming page
- Composition page
- Fillable versions for digital learning
Project options:
- CLASS ACTIVITY: Have the class work on the project together, contributing to the brainstorming and composing.
- GROUP ACTIVITY: Break students into groups to collaborate on the activity.
- INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY: Have students work individually on a song of their own.
- CROSS-CURRICULAR ACTIVITY: Incorporate another discipline and assign topics to the students. For example, if you are studying the Great Depression, students can write a song about the struggles of living through such a time. You could assign characters from a novel to each student in ELA class, writing a Blues song from the character’s perspective.
Use this unit in conjunction with BLUES: a BRIEF HISTORY to give students more context.
*For copyright purposes, all PDFs are protected from editing but can be printed and shared.
Total Pages
22 Slides, 3 pdfs
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