The Beatles - Hey Jude - LISTENING SKILLS

The Beatles - Hey Jude - LISTENING SKILLS

- The Music Espionage -

The aim of this resource is to enable learners to develop their listening skills, with a focus on sonic and musical components. It is part of a bundle of resources that allows learners to break-down and understand some of the most popular and iconic songs in Pop/Rock. Moreover, these listening skills lessons would work excellently alongside the “History of Modern Music” resource, this detailing the history of modern music.

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This lesson and supporting resources provide an extremely detailed account of the song “Hey Jude” by the band The Beatles, with a full song, break down and analysis. This covers some of the background and history of the band/artist along with a detailed breakdown of all musical elements from this track.

Musical Elements covering:

Tonality

Tempo

Meter/Time Signature

Instrumentation

Structure

Dynamics/Texture

Rhythmic Elements

Song Theme

Genre/Style

The material in these resources would easily cover 1 to 2 lessons. The presentation covers the major musical elements from the song, and can be used after students have completed the Listening Skill worksheet or at the same time, working through section by section.

The presentation also comes with embedded YouTube musical examples to support and engage learning and even references to other artists that are similar in style, or rhythm or tempo. This proving the learner with a wider range of listening and musical tastes. There are also 3 sequenced music arrangement examples for the song that focuses on certain elements, these allowing the learner to carefully hear certain elements from the music.

Moreover, the resource comes with a Listening Skills worksheet for learners to listen to the song and work through, and answer worksheet for teacher reference and also a Help and Guidance sheet.

In this package:

- PRESENTATION – Listening Skills-The Beatles - Hey Jude (.pdf High quality)

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- WORKSHEET – Class Task – Listening Skills Questions(.pdf)

- ANSWERS – Class Task – Listening Skills Answers (.pdf)

- GUIDANCE - Class Task-Help and Guidance listening Skills (.pdf)

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- AUDIO– Sequenced Audio Example 1 – Verse One(.MP3)

- AUDIO– Sequenced Audio Example 2 – Time-Signature- (.MP3)

- AUDIO– Sequenced Audio Example 3 – Rhythm (.MP3)

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- INFOGRAPHIC– The Beatles - Hey Jude – Song Structure (.pdf)

- INFOGRAPHIC– The Beatles - Hey Jude– Song Dynamics and texture (.pdf)

- INFOGRAPHIC– The Beatles - Hey Jude– Song Panning + Stereo-Field (.pdf)