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| Learning Target OR Standards & Connections |
- NCAS Creating – Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.
- NCAS Performing (Extension Activity) – Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.
- NCAS Responding – Organize and develop artistic ideas and work
- NCAS Connecting (Extension Activity) – Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
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| Essential Outcome(s) |
Level(s) |
Students will…
- demonstrate the ability to record MIDI by using virtual software instruments.
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Middle & High School |
| Activity/Project |
- Open a blank template in the Soundtrap studio.
- Click on the loop browser in the top-right. Click on the down arrow to open the loop filters. Choose the drum filter.
- Click on a loop once to hear it. Select a drum loop and drag it into your project.
- Create a new track and choose any of the software instruments (Guitar & Bass, Piano & Keyboards, Drum Kits, Synthesizer, Strings, or Brass & Woodwinds).
- Choose a preset and press the keys on your computer keyboard that correspond to the notes on the instrument. Experiment until you find a sound you like that works with the drums you already added.
- Press the record button and record yourself playing the virtual software instrument.
- Save and download your work.
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| Extended Learning |
- Inspired and influenced by personal experiences, students identify additional song traits, the feeling & genre.
- Based on that, the project contains at least 4 ADDITIONAL tracks other than “loop”
- Students will share composition with the class and/or online community.
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Lesson Plan Submitted by Josh Emanuel. Josh teaches general music and music technology in Nanuet, NY. He is also a percussionist, composer, clinician, and researcher working on his PhD in Music Education at NYU. You can see some of his work at http://joshemanuel.com or on Twitter @joshemanuel.
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