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• CONNECTED to your teaching experiences

• EXTENDED your teaching ideas

• CHALLENGED you?

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How have the activities today.

• CONNECTED to your prior music experiences

• EXTENDED your musicianship

• CHALLENGED you?

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Informal music strategies for students to make and perform music together successfully. Making music lessons experiential yet manageable for primary school students

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How to make this easy for (Untrained) students to learn all these activities without taking up too much time and to sustain their attention/energy/motivation through the different activities.

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Today’s activities pushed me to go out of my comfort zone to try to play instruments that I am not familiar with and let me experience trying out different Instruments and upgrade my musicianship

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Connect and Challenge: Trouble shooting possible IT issues in the classroom
Extend: Introducing layers through musicking

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How to differentiate instruction for different levels of students  using different success criteria that all add towards the same musical experience.

Troubleshooting common issues students may face.

Putting the elements of the DAW into musical context is the biggest takeaway that I want to work on in future

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Students to experience physical ‘drumming’ before transferring to DAW (siewchun)

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Connect: how it feels to be in students’ shoes
Extend: scaffold ideas and other musicking ideas before embarking on daw
Challenge: there’s a lot of thinking and preparation to be done to plan these lessons

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Connect: Prior music arrangement/production skills + DAW knowledge
Extend and challenge: Arranging in genre-specific style

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Understanding that DAW needs to be supported by keen listening skills and sound musical decisions 

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Understanding that DAW needs to be supported by keen listening skills and sound musical decisions 

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music that’s made digitally can be timbre rich too . With creativity , real instruments can be combined with virtual ones effectively if we use them optimally

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letting students collaborate on task (e.g. recording) so that they can learn from one another and help one another achieve some success

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DAW is a useful tool that can help students to experience the various layers in a song individually, thus developing their aural sensitivity to the individual parts when everything is put together.

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Students can train aural skills (pitch, rhythm, chord progressions) before going on to DAW

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Connected:  past experiences of arranging music on Garageband to Bandlab
Extend: explored the functions of Bandlab, learning how to connect the hardware to the computers
Challenge: deconstructing songs and performing it in various manner (live, bandlab, ipad GB)

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When I'm arranging music on my own, I often start from listening and find resources (e.g. scores) as I go along. However, doing this with students can be challenging as they're often not sure where to start (especially when there are many musical layers). Today's course helped me think about ways in which I can help to scaffold this listening process for my students (rather than changing the process because I assume that my students are not ready yet).

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Reminded me how deconstructing the pop song by stems in the DAW is another way to listen more intensely. Now to just find good MIDI tracks!

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As a trained musician, this activity did make me think about the different roles of individual within a band which is great to expand my understanding. I like the active listening because one tends to be biased towards listening out to a preferred instrument, but today, one has to remain objective and listen out/demonstrate to all instruments equally on the various softwares (iPad garageband/bandlab).

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DAW helps to scaffold listening for students, to help them listen out to specific instruments or layers. This also helps to train them in their aural skills. This can be extended to other genres also.

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Connected: The assignment brief that I used for my students is exactly the same as how you used it. 

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Connected: The assignment brief that I used for my students is exactly the same as how you used it. 

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Extended : Learnt some new functions of the bandlab that I have not explore before.
Challenged: Maybe can recreate today's group ensemble playing using bandlab with the upper primary.
Emily

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Using a DAW must include the use of musical abilities like sense of pulse, harmony, rhythm and timbre. These fundamentals will help govern sound musical choices that help me navigate the daw like a musician and not a lab monkey hitting random buttons on a laptop.

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I still feel a bit lost with all the functions and FX effects in a DAW, but I’m sure that if I’m diligent in following up with my own learning and hands-on in a DAW, I’ll get there…. 💪🏻

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Preparing students' ears / drawing students' attention to specific musical features through musicking / listening activities before DAW arrangement work

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Wondering how to create lesson/assignment in bandlab and how to access students' work and to provide feedback...😅

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Connect: importance of scaffolding and  supporting resources e.g. visual cues to ensure students feel competent enough to complete tasks
Extend: usage of Bandlab to make music
Challenge: how to use Bandlab for music making at Pri level

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Using deconstruction of arrangements to develop students' active listening of different musical layers, while covering DAW concepts at the same time. It has challenged my understanding of arranging on DAW, especially understanding and experimenting with balancing of all layers.

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The deconstruction approach threw away some misconceptions that I had about digital music making

Listening is just as important in performing with live instruments as it is when creating music virtually

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Connect: the workshop allowed me to know more technical terms and has drilled my skills in bandlab
Extend: the itty-gritty things to know in order to carry out a good daw lesson/module
Challenge: the music skills and concepts involved when deconstructing songs - so tough!

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To first make it musical for students with intentional preparation (auditory, visual prep) and differentiation, before merging it with DAW. This helps shave off “musical issues” students may face if they just went straight to a DAW task.

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Listening to the roles of other instruments in the band pushes me out of my comfort zone and helps me to appreciate the different characteristics of a certain genre

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Connected with what I knew about what the different layers and things that the different instruments play in the pop band. It extended my DAW skills to learn how to use multiple effects and tools to achieve certain sounds. The new challenge is to use the tool to do explore more music.

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Extend and challenge: Exploring Bandlab thoroughly and trying to create a sound arrangement and mix with it

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learning how to better teach mixing and adding effects to tracks

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Assignments quite difficult. Couldn't find the exact sound that matches the original sound. 😅

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Putting myself in the shoes of the arrangers is a good way to appreciate their craft.

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Need to learn the unique stylistic characteristics of different genres to arrange a piece in specific genre.

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How alternative notation helps students to learn music better. Musicking with solfège, body percussion, singing and virtual instruments helps students internalize concepts and express themselves musically

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Re-experiencing using a DAW like band lab to manipulate/create music.

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Connected: Excited to learn new things as a musician.
Extended:  Trained my listening ears
Challenged : Learning I'm a short period of time and applying it in different assignments.

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Using the DAW to record and notate the individual musical parts heard makes it easier to internalize the unique musical traits. It challenges me to think of the unique instrumental styles and how to write in a way that is stylistic of the instrument.

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Connected: Arranging on bandlab and garageband.

Extended: Learning about mixing and experimenting with the various effects.

Challenged: Arrange a song in a given or different style

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The last task forced me to listen more intently to the intricacies of a specific genre, and take it a level higher by changing the style of another song - composition majors do sketching for different periods of music, same instruments and this reminded me of that.