Week 1 was super fun. We met James at the con and he’s cool and likes to run and stuff. On Monday we experimented with the DM1 Drum Machine and I had no idea it could be used for classroom teaching. I always thought I was supposed to follow the syllabus and teach church music, conduct a choir and things because that basically sums up my high school music classes. I think teens will really enjoy a class like that and I’m going to experiment on my teen brother ahaha
On Wednesday we played with Soundtrap. It’s basically like LogicPro but cloud-based. The loops were quite good and I think it’d be a nice place to start off if the school doesn’t have a paid programme like Logic or Ableton. Ableton and Logic have cloud functionality on splice allowing users to seamlessly share projects without any of the lag, making Soundtrap an inferior choice unless school funding is insufficient .It’d be suitable for Year 8 or above. It’s very interesting because that’s quite simialr to the Ontario Music Syllabus. So here’s the track I came up with today-
Kidz! Music! 