Blues OCR The students need to be

The students need to be told that these lessons will demand their response to unusually ‘silly’ activities which may seem so to begin with but will make more sense as the work progresses

using the episodic style of the work to guide the students through the narrative

This mighty civilisation rose and fell with epic pace: it was wiped out almost overnight and then slowly rediscovered over several hundred years

if not more so

Blues OCR The students need to beBlues is a bit of an old chestnut at KS3, but for good reasons: its a convenient style for learning about chords and scales; its simple and somewhat formulaic nature makes it easy to perform and compose; and it lends itself nicely to vocal work and improvisation. Here we have tried to take advantage of all these opportunities.