Online chord looping stations and drum machines such as those found on One Motion allow students the opportunity to engage in music creation in a way that is accessible to them without a large theoretical music background. Students can use their intuition and their ears to create music in innovative ways online.

Students need to know that their voice matters to this world and that they can create music that will enhance their community. This project is designed to allow students to engage in small groups to create an original piece of music.  It will comprise elements of composition, improvisation, music theory, musical notation, and performance while working within a group setting. Students will use a digital audio workstation to record, edit, and remix their song.

The music room just became a working professional music studio and live performance venue, complete with a full complement of composers, performers, audio engineers, promoters, stage managers, and a stage crew! Students will work collaboratively to develop understandings of the many careers associated with the performing arts, while composing and premiering an original music work.

Students will compose and perform a melody consisting of quarter notes, eighth notes, and quarter rests using traditional and non-traditional notation. Students will also gain facility performing the notes E, G, A and C on the recorder.

Description: Throughout the world and history musical instruments have been used to communicate, a source of entertainment and rituals. Your group will use your knowledge of sound to design your own musical instruments and create an original music composition to entertain your class.