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🎵 7th Grade · MusicMU:Pr6.1Unit 2: Keyboard & guitar

Play a song

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🎯 Objective: Students perform a pop or folk song with chords.

Lesson outline

  1. Choose.
  2. Rehearse.
  3. Perform.
  4. Exit: reflect.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MU:Pr6.1

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Play chords and simple songs on keyboard or guitar

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

⏱️ Countdown timer⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Keyboard & guitar”

  1. Keyboard basics
  2. Chords
  3. Play a song

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