♪[theme music]
Alright guys, what we're doing today is we are um
going to be learning something new with the GarageBand. This is your GarageBand final.
Uh, we're going to be using all of the techniques we've learned this year
whether it be editing, uh...
creating a part, I'm going to show you how to not just create the keyboard part again
but also how you can create a guitar part.
Um, because we're going to use all of this stuff: Mixed edit,
change the volumes, create parts.
And we're also going to be creating in a new form of music that you might not be
as familiar with it's called A-B-A form.
In this lesson, the students were working on the standard 2.5 which is arranging music
using alternative forms such as digital music.
And that's what I really wanted students to get out of this was to work with digital music.
I could just have students play you know, 3,4, 5 days a week
but they wouldn't get a full music education.
Students need to learn with digital media as well as other things, and this is one way
to get them to do so.
So to show you what we're going to do, this is something that I created,
and you can kind of see...
I'll put it up here on the screen for you to look at.
Look at how these four tracks and these four tracks are identical.
There's nothing different.
Now, in the first one I created the guitar, the retro wah.
And in the second one, I created the soul organ.
Okay, so hopefully, we're going to listen to it right now and hopefully you'll hear...
the difference
in the two sections.
♪[music playing]
The importance of using programs to give them musical experience
is so that they have a complete music education.
We need to prepare students to be 21st century learners.
And I know it's a very popular buzz word right now,
but it is true. Especially in the music industry.
Things are changing so rapidly. If they aren't prepared for that,
they're not going to be able to adapt.
♪[music playing]
And then of course it just repeats. You know GarageBand just repeats as it gets
to the end. So...
You see the basic form of it
Now the great thing about this app is it makes doing something like this extremely easy.
I didn't have to count measures. I didn't have to make sure this and this.
It did it exactly right and I'm going to show you how to do that right now.
So go ahead and open up your iPads.
Go ahead and launch GarageBand.
This project is their final,
and we are taking all of the concepts we learned: editing tracks, editing loops,
changing voices, changing volumes, uh...
all of those things and putting them all together.
Alright, so the first thing we do is we create new.
So hopefully you have a new icon that says create new document.
And we are going to select the live loops in the upper left-uh upper center there.
Okay live loops, and you select the box that says new.
The goal in teaching students with that direct instruction at the beginning is to
remind them of what they're supposed to do and how to work with the program.
With these programs there is so many little nuances that they can use,
it takes a lot of reminding.
...pick anything you want
it'll come up acoustic, and once again the chords.
♪[guitar strumming]
or the notes...
Once again you pick scale.
Maybe I want to do minor blues now.
♪[guitar playing]
So, as long as your firsts four tracks: you know the bass, drums, guitar, and the
keyboard part are all on lock,
add whatever you want as long as it adds to it.
-blends -blends to it. Exactly. Cohesion. Cohesiveness
You're going to have the rest of the time to work on your project.
I'll be meandering around the room, making sure that we're all good.
♪[drums playing from student's iPad]
The importance of self-exploration is paramount.
You never learn anything by being told. You have to figure it out.
Some students are tremendous at finding new things.
Sometimes students show me, hey Mr. Haynes, did you see this?
And I’ll say, Wow, that was neat. I-I never have seen that.
And some students need you to pull them along. And that's why during the independent
instruction, you kind of anchor yourself around certain students you know might
need help. But then you notice, hey they're having fun and they're exploring.
And the other thing is the fun. Fun is extremely important in this.
I like experimenting with all the different sounds and all the different instruments
9because it's a-a wide uh var-variety of different instruments.
And um...
I can be able to edit it however I like...
and um...
make-make it sound however I like.
Right now, I'm pretty content with what I was doing.
I just tried to mix and match them together from the basses, and the guitars, and the
keyboards. It was a bit hard, but I tried my best.
♪[Christina's composition]