Student Songwriters use iPads and GarageBand to create their own hit singles!
Bringing music to life!
Jennah Somers already had a great project where classes write their own songs from scratch practice and tweak the song, with a culminating experience of having a professional band come in and perform the song. That in and of itself is an amazing learning experience for students. We kicked that project up a notch by bringing in some iPads and the Garage Band application.
Students were broken into teams of 2 to 3 students and each group was given an iPad to work with. The goal was to use the features in Garage Band to create an original song that they could publish and share. Students were given the tempo, major chords and lyrics; everything else was up to their creative imaginations! Instead of a simple piano accompaniment, students were able to add percussion, bass line, guitar, orchestra and their own synthesizer touches!
The engagement in the music creation process was palpable. Students listened to combined tracks, found new harmonies, added their own artistic talents and really loved learning how to “make” a song.
Jennah has also pushed the envelope in sharing student work by creating a class blog where students, teachers and parents can see what the students are creating. The students are running to class to see what’s next and to show off what they have done outside the classroom.
They are truly inspired.
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