Material to support staff members working in disability settings, and music activities for groups that are designed for a member of staff to facilitate.
Want to try a music activity but not sure how to find what you need? Join Becky and Louis from Drake Music as they introduce the ‘Resources‘ section of the OrchLab website. Explore some of the music resources available and learn how to search for specific types of activities by watching this simple, easy to
Posted in Resources, Staff guidance & training
iPads make fantastic digital musical instruments, and we use them a lot in OrchLab sessions thanks to their adaptability and accessibility. In this guide we’ll show you GarageBand, one of the music apps that we use. There is another guide available for ThumbJam, another music app which you can explore. GarageBand is an app already
Posted in Resources, Staff guidance & training
iPads make fantastic digital musical instruments, and we use them a lot in OrchLab sessions thanks to their adaptability and accessibility. In this guide we’ll show you ThumbJam, one of the music apps that we use. There is another guide available for Garageband which you can explore. ThumbJam is available to download from the Apple
Posted in Resources, Staff guidance & training
I see trees of green, red roses too,I see them bloom for me and you.And I think to myself, what a wonderful world! These are the opening lines of the famous song, which we sang and explored at OrchLab sessions in Autumn 2020. This is a great song to sing along to, but it can
Posted in Create & Compose, Listen & Discover, Resources, Staff guidance & training
In a recent OrchLab project, we used a famous suite of music called The Planets, by Gustav Holst, as our inspiration music. You can find out more about it in our Planets Listening Guide. In this activity we’re going to create our own graphic musical score, which we can then use to create our own
Posted in Listen & Discover, Resources, Staff guidance & training
If you’ve explored the OrchMap, and already mastered the individual instrument quizzes, challenge yourself to be a master of orchestral knowledge! The quizzes below test your knowledge of all the OrchMap instruments combined. You can access the quizzes online, or if you prefer, you can download PDFs and fill out by hand, or use to
Posted in Games & Quizzes, Resources, Staff guidance & training
If you’ve explored the OrchMap, test your instrument knowledge by taking our quizzes! We have provided a range of quizzes on each instrument which you can access online, or if you prefer, you can download PDFs and fill out by hand, or use to test a group. If you’ve finished our individual instrument quizzes, or
Posted in Games & Quizzes, Resources, Staff guidance & training
When OrchLab visited Arnold House in March 2018, we used a piece of music by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich (his 7th Symphony, known as “Leningrad”) as our inspiration to create our own music. The Leningrad Symphony has four movements (sections). In the first movement, there is a very long section featuring a marching drum rhythm.
Posted in Create & Compose, Resources, Staff guidance & training
When OrchLab visited Arnold House in March 2018, we used a piece of music by Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich (his 7th Symphony, known as “Leningrad”) as our inspiration to create our own music. We have used some of this music to make a “hello song”, and included some gaps for you to make music in
Posted in Create & Compose, Resources, Staff guidance & training