Tracks for Strategies Music Makers

Music-makers can grasp songs and other short pieces of music as self-contained entities. They recognise and can anticipate prominent structural features such as the choruses of songs (even without the words). They intuitively respond to the general characteristics of music, such as its ‘mode’ (for example, whether it’s in a major key, with its typically happy connotations, or in a minor key, which tends to evoke sadness) and its ‘groove’ (the overall rhythmic feel of a piece).

Music-makers show a developing ability to sing or play in time and (where pitch can be varied) in tune. For instance, they may sing songs which faithfully follow the contour of the original melody (its ups and downs in pitch) but where the intervals (the distances between one note and the next) are only approximately reproduced.

Music-makers may well enjoy singing and playing with others, either producing the same part as someone else or, increasingly, able to hold their own when others do something different. They may be able to improvise solos or work with other people to create new pieces of music, too.