GarageBand has been a huge success for Apple over the last few years for a number of reasons. It is very simple for complete beginners to utilize as a live music recorder/arranger, music composition aide, or podcast creation tool. It visually looks great on the computer screen and has enough depth and resources to keep students, enthusiasts, and even music professionals satisfied as an all in one audio studio.
Student creativity is an important goal for students to who want to get the most out of their musical experience. Not only does GarageBand fill this creative need in the music classroom, but it can also expand into other areas of a child’s education such as creative writing, reading fluency, and presentations.
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In this project, after some minor modifications, I asked middle school orchestra students to investigate the music and time period of JS Bach. Students then make a timeline of their findings. GarageBand is a perfect fit for this type of presentation. After completing the timeline students import pictures of JS Bach plus visuals that represent life in Germany during the 1600’s. Students then open up several real instrument tracks of recordings of Bach’s music to accompany the project. Next students create a script they will use to read and record their voice commentary, then mix it down and save to iTunes. Finally, they will open it in QuickTime resulting in a stand-alone movie that can be uploaded to YouTube or any other movie sharing site. After completing this project my student’s knowledge and ease of use of GarageBand increased by leaps and …show more content…
By all indications GarageBand use by students and teachers alike are just scratching the surface and quickly evolving. In the last twenty years, digital technologies have fundamentally changed music making, music composition and arranging, classroom projects and presentations, sharing, teaching and learning.
While GarageBand for the Mac has been enormously successful, the music app that has recently emerged as a game-changer is GarageBand for the iPad. Why is this significant? Because school districts like Olathe are just now rolling out an iPad initiative to make sure each student has access to on by the 2015-16 school year. The iPad version of GarageBand has all of the capabilities of the desktop based version, but broadens its music possibilities by incorporating touch based instruments and “smart instruments.” These new capabilities allow the user to have a virtual orchestra as his or her fingertips. The GarageBand app is an incredible tool because a user with only minimal music skills can easily create songs, podcasts and other projects. They can then mix, publish, and readily distribute them in a variety of formats. With the continued development and refining of this app, and similar apps that are sure to follow, the potential that lies before us in networked digital media will continue to advance and push the digital limits for years to
In pages 55-60 of Green’s book, On Teaching Band: Notes from Eddie Green, the author discusses the successful introduction of playing instruments to students at the approximate age of 11-13 years. He offers techniques to maintain student engagement when beginning to teach instrument-playing. Green states that he prefers to keep a neat classroom to encourage students to be equally organized. He also determines the physical needs of the classroom, including wire stands and playable instruments for each student, stating that he prefers the students receive their instruments at school.
Music has been a part of human society for thousands of years, and in each time period, music has been an integral part of culture. During the Middle Ages, numerous instruments were created for the art of music making. One of these instruments is called the hurdy-gurdy. Despite its strange name, this instrument has stood the test of time and still attracts the attention of music-lovers today (Baines, Bowles, & Green, 2001).
Dalessandro used a number of computer programs, including Pro Tools, a digital audio workstation. The friends will send the audio files to one another over the internet, with each adding his contribution.
Inspiring students to take on science, technology, engineering, art and math, and look at these subjects in a different way--as something they can easily learn takes some creativity. It doesn’t get any more creative than using music to get students excited about these subjects.
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In a regular physical education setting, majority of the gymnasiums have a stereo system which allows them to play music off of the class ipod and/or ipad. Most gymnasiums also have a projector and projector screen to allow the students to play
Creativity is all about the 21st century skills and the future students. One form of creativity they will use is brainstorming. It includes elaborating, analyzing refining, and evaluating ideas to improve and maximize creative efforts (Syrett, 2002). Creativity involves originality, and working with peers to come up with ideas. It will allow you to fail and work on what went wrong and recreate it. They will have the tools that are needed to be creative. Creativity is an important aspect for every student to
Creative development allows children to be creative using various different resources and materials. By encouraging creativity through play, make sure children have a wide range of materials to work with that are age appropriate; for example, paints, pencils, markers, play dough, buttons and pasta. Using a different variety of textures will enable children to explore sensory materials as well as art materials. Creativity through music is great way to allow children to respond to a range of music and sounds; they love to jump up and down to music. Children should be provided with resources so they can make their own music for example, shakers, rattles anything that can let children create their own music and sounds. Providing a setting with
In recent years our society is seeing first hand the evolution of new media. From the inception of the Internet, what followed was a whirlwind of progress in
Working with music takes a certain type of patients. That’s why when I knew this project was present, I had the perfect person in mind because I worked so close with this person once before. So, I decided to gather my resources and get in contact with our family friend Dr. Snodgrass who is the superintendent of the Fort Osage R-1 School District and ask if I could receive her email so I could set up a facetime call with her and get this interview on the road. Her name Is Erica Gregory and she is a high school band teacher at Fort Osage located in Independence Missouri. The reasons I decided to interview her were simple. First, she was my star time teacher which meant she was my study hall teacher. As a freshman coming into high school and being placed in a study hall class
Most of us assume emerging economic, political and climate changes will be remodeled by the emerging technology we have today. We are sure YouTube, streaming, and video on-demand will be the wave of the future and change our lives for the better; giving us more money, free time, and control of our lives. Our well-oiled lives in the Tech Age are incompatible with our grandfather's blue collar days scratching out a living turning wrenches at the local garage. We’re at the top of our technological game.
My first topic will be about 5 instruments, and the importance of playing them, and having basic understanding about them. I will describe each instrument’s importance for its inclusion on the list, and how each one uniquely enables people to translate their musical ideas into tangible realities.
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The typical instruments used throughout the session are drums, tambourines, maracas, violins, and etc. These instruments can only can be used one at a time with each child in a group taking a turn or all together with everyone playing their own instrument. This helps create a fun and lively environment making it comfortable for the children. The child always is given a choice on which instrument they would like to play to allow them to express themselves in their own way. There are three options give to the children they can play in small groups, duets, or even solos. When playing a solo or even a small group this gives the child or children an opportunity to improvises and connect with creativity and expression.
In the world of learning nowadays, there are many ways to acquire knowledge other than schools and teachers. Learning an instrument can take place beyond the traditional classroom setting. As technology improves over the years, learning can take place not only in a teacher to students setting but also from a vast amount of resources on the internet and digital media. During the course of ten weeks, I used various online resources to learn how to play the piano by learning how to play three different songs. So far, I have successfully learned all three songs by watching YouTube videos and exploring piano instruction websites. During the learning process I have encountered different challenges; some I was