Edexcel exam style practice question, links to articles, performance footage and a wider listening playlist, to support and enrich essay writing for Unit 3 question 6
Edexcel unit 3 exam style practice question 5 with embedded video, and a playlist packed with pertinent 'wider listening' reference material
40 minute test /50, suitable for all exam specifications comprising vocabulary questions (10 marks), three exam-style questions (40 marks), and a follow up review task to identify next steps. Questions on texture, rhythmic devices, phrasing, cadences, metre, pulse, timbre, tonality, texture, melodic recognition, melodic dictation, melodic description, comparison question.
Great progressions built from 2 or 3 chords. These exercises are to get students used to the idea that they’re going to find themselves with knotty problems that need unravelling, re-working and rethinking. It’s also to get them recognising that each phrase connects with the one before and after it. No phrase is an island. Horizontal thinking is just as important as vertical thinking. There's a lot to consider, even when you’re just using primary triads.
Rooty progressions and same chord inversions. Three progressions that explore root chord progressions, adjacent root position chords and adjacent root and first inversions of the same chord.
Edexcel unit 3 exam style practice question 5 with embedded video, and a playlist packed with pertinent 'wider listening' reference material
Great double acts - V7d - Ib and friends. Because root V7 - root I is such a weighty partnership, it’s not a combination you want students using all over the place. The two chords have really strong bonds in certain inversion combinations too, and are endlessly useful for lightening mid-chorale cadences and for anacruses.
VIIb and the 'passing 6/4'. In 'A level' harmony mark schemes, you commonly find the use of the passing 6/4 penalised, unless it is used leading up to a cadence like this: IVb - Ic - II7b - V - I. These exercises illustrate Bach's use of VIIb between root and first inversion chord I.
Edexcel exam style practice question, links to articles, performance footage and a wider listening playlist, to support and enrich essay writing for Unit 3 question 6
Four exercises to help students establish a handful of solutions when harmonising the chord before the approach chord.
