Teacher resources – Mr G's musical maths

Here are the lyrics for our version of We are the champions. 3x lyrics We haven’t yet got around to recording this with the band.  It’s a very challenging song to play, and we ran out of time to rehearse it before the last recording session.  It’s still in the pipeline and we hope to […]

Here is the lyrics file for Move, a song by Little Mix which was a hit at the end of 2013. I had absolutely nothing to do with this!  A group of year 6 girls wrote the entire song.  I actually felt that it wouldn’t work because there were too many words, moving too fast, […]

Here is the lyrics file for What does the fox say.  This was based on an idea from a group of year 5 children. 4x Fox lyrics Here is the final version of the song, with the secondary school band performing. What does the Four say Here is the rehearsal file for the song, exported […]

Here is the lyrics file for Happy.  Lots of children were persuading me to do this song, which had been a massive hit over the previous few months, although it was early days in the project so I was still writing the lyrics. 6x Happy lyrics Here is the final version of the song, with […]

Here is the lyrics file for Rather Be.  Most of these words came from a group of Year 5 children, based on the song which was number 1 at the time. 9x Rather be lyrics Here is the final version of the song, with the secondary school band performing. Rather sing (9 times table) Here […]

Here is the lyrics file for Don’t Stop Believing.  The __  __ gaps at the start of each line are to indicate the rests – in other words, how many beats to be silent before starting to sing the line. 8x Don’t stop believing lyrics Here is the final version of the song, with the […]

Here is the lyrics file for Mamma Mia. 7x Mamma mia lyrics Here is the final version of the song, with the secondary school band performing. Mamma mia (7 times table) Here is the rehearsal file for the song, exported from Sibelius.  The singers start at about 0:14. 7x Mamma mia – rehearsal file