This term in music, P4 have been learning about how music can tell a story and the important role it plays in enhancing a story by driving the plot, revealing characters or expressing a theme. We listened and appraised four different songs from four different Disney animations and we concluded that music was an essential element in each film. Without music, there would be no story!

In the clip below, you can see the class reading and performing the rhythms of crotchets (ta), quavers (ti-ti), crotchet rests (shh) and whole rests (shh-shh-shh-shh). They not only had to understand and play the rhythms, they also had to read and perform drum notation.

Here is a link to the play along that we used:

And here is our class performance: