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 – The Fundamentals: Beat/Rhythm
Task 2 – Introducing the Relative Harmonic Minor: Pitch
Task 3 – Making Connections: Expressive Controls
Task 4 – Two Beats in a Bar!: Duration
Task 5 – Introducing the Blues: Composition
Task 6 – Articulate What You Mean!: Expressive Controls
Task 7 – Jump Start: Rhythm
Task 8 – Three Beats In A Bar!: Duration
Task 9 – Hurray, More Scales!: Pitch
Task 10 – A “Dynamic” Task!: Expressive Controls
Task 11 – You’ve Got Rhythm!: Rhythm
Task 12 – Following The Musical Road Map: Form
Task 13 – Adding To The Blues: Composition
Task 14 – Compositional Shortcuts: Form
Task 15 – Introducing…The Eighth Rest!: Rhythm
Task 16 – Creating The Blues: Composition
Task 17 – Sixteenth Notes: Rhythm
Task 18 – Showing Off The Blues: Expressive Controls
Task 19 – Final Expressions: Expressive Controls
Task 20 – The Finish Line!: Culminating Task

GPS Booklet (All instruments/Conductors Copy) – These files will directly download to your computer

Year Two – Final Copy PDF
Year Two – Final Copy DOC

Individual Student Booklets – These files will directly download to your computer

Year Two – Flute DOC
Year Two – Flute PDF

Year Two – Oboe DOC
Year Two – Oboe PDF

Year Two – Bassoon DOC
Year Two – Bassoon PDF

Year Two – Clarinet DOC
Year Two – Clarinet PDF

Year Two – Bass Clarinet DOC
Year Two – Bass Clarinet PDF

Year Two – Alto Saxophone DOC
Year Two – Alto Saxophone PDF

Year Two – Tenor Saxophone DOC
Year Two – Tenor Saxophone PDF

Year Two – Baritone Saxophone DOC
Year Two – Baritone Saxophone PDF

Year Two – French Horn DOC
Year Two – French Horn PDF

Year Two – Trumpet DOC
Year Two – Trumpet PDF

Year Two – Trombone DOC
Year Two – Trombone PDF

Year Two – Euphonium DOC
Year Two – Euphonium PDF

Year Two – Tuba DOC
Year Two – Tuba PDF

Year Two – Percussion DOC
Year Two – Percussion PDF

Youtube Links
GPS Band Year 2 Task 12
https://youtu.be/K9vtUoqLKiw

Student Booklets on Memberside Only

GPS Year 2 – Student Booklets – Members Only