In this lesson, students will use a recording platform to layer tracks and produce a small ensemble piece as the only performer. This process encourages individual accountability and emphasizes the importance of ensemble performance skills.

Students will experiment with and compose rhythmic grooves to use with their warm-up exercises. Using an online tool, students will create their own backing tracks to put the “fun” back in fundamentals!

In this lesson, students will use electronic effects using digital audio to manipulate their instrument’s sound. Using the creative process, students will research, generate ideas, test, refine, and reflect on their original composition. Students will walk away with the confidence to use their instrument as a voice of creativity within both acoustic and digital spaces.

Participants will engage with technologies that facilitate creative music making and discuss where student imagination belongs in standards-based curricula.