Music
Vocabulary-building recall for KS3 Music: the elements of music, reading staff notation, and the instrument families. This is the language that makes GCSE Music feel familiar when it arrives. Three minutes a day on the foundations of the subject.
Y7 · Y8 · Y9 · No board filter
150
Cards in the bank
The elements of music (pitch, melody, dynamics, tempo, texture), reading the stave and note values, and the four instrument families, all written at the right level for Y7–Y9.
DfE
National curriculum
Mapped to the KS3 Music programme of study: using staff notation, the inter-related dimensions of music, instruments and voices, and the foundations of music history.
3
Minutes a day
Spaced repetition surfaces the cards a student is about to forget. The vocabulary that takes ten minutes to teach takes ten seconds a day to keep, so it's still there at GCSE.
What's covered
The language of music. Ready for GCSE.
KS3 Music is where students build the vocabulary and notation skills they'll need at GCSE. The elements, the stave and the instrument families are the foundations.
The Elements of Music
- ✓Pitch & melody
- ✓Dynamics & tempo
- ✓Texture
- ✓Rhythm & duration
- ✓Timbre & instruments
- ✓Structure
Reading Music
- ✓The stave & clefs
- ✓Note values & rests
- ✓Pitch names, sharps & flats
Instruments & Voices
- ✓The instrument families
- ✓Voices & world instruments
Music History
- ✓Periods of Western music
- ✓Famous composers
World & Popular Music
- ✓World music & rhythms
- ✓Pop, blues & song structure
The same engine as GCSE Music, tuned for KS3. Every card is written at the right level for Y7–Y9. When students reach GCSE the vocabulary isn't new: forte and piano, crotchets and minims, the treble clef and the instrument families are already familiar, so the appraising paper lands faster.
Try it for four weeks. Free.
One school. Unlimited classes. No card limit. No teacher limit. If your students aren't practising daily by the end of the trial, you owe us nothing.