Year 3 GPS StringsThe 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 Nots and Half Notes
Task 2 – “Syn-Co-Pa”: Eighth/Quarter/Eighth Notes
Task 3 – Performing Short, L O N G, Short: Syncopation
Task 4 – LONG, Short, LONG, Short: Dotted Quarter/Eighth Note Combination
Task 5 – Putting It Together In A Theme and Variations: 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 -Dynamcialy Speaking…In 6/8 Time: Dynamics
Task 12 – Articulating The Difference: Articulation
Task 13 – Fluid With Shifting: Phrasing/Pitch
Task 14 – Vibrato With Legato: Vibrato
Task 15 – Time To Put Things Together: Culminating Task
Task 16 – Following The Road Map: DC al Fine
Task 17 – Introducing…The Coda!: DC al Coda
Task 18 – And Now…Dal Segno!: D.S. al Coda
Task 19 – Yes! Another Endings Option!: 1st and 2nd Endings
Task 20 -The GPS Finish Line!: Culminating Task