The GPS (Grade Performance Steps) – The Road to Musical Success! are a series of performance tasks that will provide your students tasks that will teach the Fundamental Concepts from the Revised Ontario Music Curriculum Grades 1-8 required at each grade to achieve musical success!

Task 1 – Review The Familiar: Quarter and Half Notes
Task 2 – “Syn-Co-Pa”: Eighth/Quarter/Eighth Notes
Task 3 – Short, L O N G, Short: Syncopation
Task 4 – LONG, SHORT, LONG, SHORT: Dotted Quarter/Eighth Note Combination
Task 5 – Putting It Together: Culminating Task
Task 6 – AB or ABA? Binary Form vs. Ternary Form
Task 7 – Hear The Difference: Binary Form vs. Ternary Form
Task 8 – Become A Ternary Composer: Composition
Task 9 – Adding Pitch: Composition
Task 10 – Your Ternary Composition: Culminating Task
Task 11 – Dynamicly Speaking…in 6/8 Time: Dynamics
Task 12 – Articulating The Difference: Articulation
Task 13 – Fluid And Sensible…in 3/8 Time!: Phrasing
Task 14 – The Skill Of The Trill: Trills
Task 15 – Time To Put Things Together: Culminating Task
Task 16 – Following The Road Map: D.C. al Fine
Task 17 – Introducing…The Coda!: D.C. al Coda
Task 18 – And Now…Dal Segno!: D.S. al Fine
Task 19 – Yes! Another Ending Option!: 1st and 2nd Endings
Task 20 – The GPS Finish Line!: Culminating Task

Student Booklets for GPS 3 are available to members only.
https://www.omea.on.ca/resource/gps-year-3-student-booklets-members-only/