Year 10 Music

Year 10 Music offers plenty of variety and a lot more choices than Y9 Music.

A big feature of 10Music is that students pick what music they want to work on, who they work with and what type of group they want to form.  BAND is a really popular choice and our students thrive in this area.  We have three awesome band tutors who teach everything about working with band instruments - drums, bass, guitar, keys and vocals.  No prior experience is needed.  Our students have great taste and pick some awesome songs to work on - this helps them develop those essentials skills.  Confidence, working with others, resilience, and helps them to show their own identity.

It is also the perfect course for students who enjoy a mixture of practical, being creative, technology and different musical styles!  

Y9 Music didn't offer much choice involved (everyone did guitar) but now you get to work in a music group (band, ensemble, vocal group for example) and you get to pick the music you work on.  Our tutors help you do this and also support you to learn those instruments during the year (which you also get to pick!).  And only Y10 Music students also qualify for singing and piano lessons!

This focus of the year is also to build on your knowledge of music and explore different ways to create/write music.  While you are doing this you will learn more about how music is structured and the elements of different genres.  The new NCEA standards mean that Music is now more future focused and flexible giving student input into what styles of music they are learning to play and create.  We move on from Hookpad and learn to use different technology (Bandlab, Garageband and Musescore) to create film music (we do comedy scary movie music or fantasty film pieces) or pieces for your group to play.

It is the perfect course for students who enjoy a mixture of practical, being creative, technology and different musical styles!

Groups might be a band, instrumental ensemble with strings, piano or other instruments, a guitar ensemble or a vocal ensemble.  It is really fun creating music together!

We also build on the things you learnt about creating your own music. You will learn about the lyric/song writing, and how to use other music composing software. You’ll be learning more about your own musical style. During the year you will learn how to create digital music (this might be movie music), a bit about songwriting and how to use music notation software to create written music.  You also get to explore your creativity  - confidence in your own creative thinking is a vital skill for all career pathways (not just for musicians!)

Along with the practical parts of the course, you will learn about music literacy (you don’t need to be an expert already), more about chords and harmony and you will also learn about different instruments and musical genres.

NEXT STEPS
Year 10 Music forms the basis for NCEA Level 1 Music.  The new standards focus on students development, real life skills and being able to express your identity and musical tastes.  They allow students to assess in a way they are comfortable and bring the focus back on learning rather than assessment.