STUDENT PROFILE Name:_______________________________ Date:___________

Instruments/Voice Instrumental Teacher Grade (if any)

Which extra-curricular activities (inside and outside of school) will you be committed to this term?

Comments on your instrumental/vocal progress (what are you good at, what do you need to do now to improve –technique, performing in public, sight-reading, playing from memory etc):

HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU… not very

ok very good Further comments/details that you’d like staff to know

at reading musical notation?

at composing a piece on your own?

at performing in an ensemble?

at talking about music?

at using garageband/logic pro?

at writing about music?

at performing solo?

HOW OFTEN DO YOU…practise your instrument each week?

come down to the music department to spend time with other musicians?listen to music each week?

go to concerts separate from school?

♫ Why did you take Music as a GCSE option?

♫ What do YOU want to get out of this course?

Musical Theory Knowledge Profile

Please be honest in your answers. It does not matter how much or how little you know at the

start of the course, but it is important to gain an accurate understanding of what you already know

and understand.

HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU At… not very

ok very good Further comments/details that you’d like staff to know

Treble clef notation?

Bass clef notation?

Notation of rhythms?

Understanding dynamics?

Major key signatures?

Minor key signatures?

Knowledge of different scales? (e.g. major, minor, modes, chromatic, pentatonic)

Understanding chords?

Cadences?

Musical devices? (e.g drone, pedal, ostinato, arpeggio etc)

Explaining different textures?

Explaining different structures?