“Harmony Through Technology” First Access Course
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Be one of the first 10 schools to win the new 3 term First Access Music Technology Course £197 value)
A highly motivating and creative course that enables young people to follow a personalised path to learn, compose and perform music in an exciting and motivating environment that suits them best.
Dear fellow Educator,
Imagine a music education system that provides each and every young person with their own personalised
learning path, that matches their particular learning style, interests and motivation. A system where no child has
to feel that they are failing because they are struggling to learn. Where they don’t feel bad because they do not fit in with the norm. A system that instead, recognises and celebrates their creative genius and their uniqueness. An environment that creates true lifelong learners and creatives, who want to be musicians!
Imagine if you were part of creating that education revolution with us…
Well now you can be!
Inclusive Music are partnering with progressive music services, hubs and organisations to create and rollout a new three term First Access Music Technology Course – “Harmony Through Technology”
I now invite you, to become part of this group of forward thinking Educators, who will join us in delivering the “Harmony Through Technology” First Access Course and fully engage with how Technology can transform young people’s lives.
When you become one of our first “Harmony Through Technology” Educators, you will get the benefit of a full suite of tools, resources, support and ongoing training over the next 12 months, helping you to grow your music education impact wherever you are in the UK.
You will also have the opportunity to support the launch of our “Inclusive Music Award”, as leaders, facilitators and
partners. This movement will grow very quickly around the world in 2018, helping schools, young people and families to recognise the creative genius within us all.
- If music in schools is to become more relevant, creative and engaging to young people then technology and the music they listen to, has to play a far greater role than it currently does.
- Music in Schools (Music Education) is becoming increasingly outdated and irrelevant to the young people of today.
- As music teachers in the digital age we have a responsibility to acquire the new skills and knowledge demanded by ever evolving technology. If we don’t we cannot offer a meaningful, accessible and inclusive musical education.
Dear fellow educator,
Research shows that ‘well-structured CPD can lead to successful changes in teachers’ practice, school improvement and improvements in pupils’ achievement’.
Our Solution is a Product that:
- Tackling and Taming Technology To transform how Music is Taught, Learnt and Played in the Digital Age.
- Guiding teachers to embrace technology in a relevant and meaningful way in the classroom.
- Access and Inclusion are key and this can be impacted by understanding and adopting innovations in technology.
Introducing the Inclusive Music Academy Course
- Relevant, inspiring and simple to use online courses and resources for teachers and students.
- Easy to use Video Tutorials – Personalised Learning Pathways reflecting students’ musical interests and motivation
- Online CPD that teachers can learn whilst teaching
- A community where teachers can support each other to utilise Technology to improve teaching and learning
- Courses to help teachers embrace technology in a relevant and meaningful way in the classroom
- Simple ways to understand and adopt innovations in technology leading to greater access and inclusion
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Courses Offered at Present:
Hello Garageband
This eight session project is the first step in your iPad songwriting journey. Consider the ‘interlocking dimensions of music’ in the context of composition, improvisation and production. Beginning with drums, each lesson adds new layers to the composition, including sung lyrics, to create a composition every student will be proud of.
Theme & Variation
This seven session project offers more advanced songwriting techniques, and includes a deeper exploration of harmony, advanced soloing, and an extended lyric writing element.
Chinese Music
Introduce your pupils to traditional Chinese instrumental music with the groundbreaking new Chinese virtual instruments on Garageband. Over four sessions, students will create programme music, improvise using the pipa and erhu instruments and develop a class performance with a luogu percussion ensemble! Suitable for ages 9-14.
Hip-Hop
Over five sessions, exploring the history and fundamental elements of hip hop music – sampling, rapping, special effects, synthesisers – through the lens of composition. An optional two session ensemble project adds powerful opportunities for performance.
A Message To You Rudy
This two session project works as an alternative introduction to GarageBand for your students. We consider the relationship between ska and reggae before working in small ensembles to create high-impact performances. In addition, the structure of the project, with everyone learning all the parts before taking on a specific role, as well as the two extensions (soloing and re-writing lyrics), can be used to cover any song. This one has been chosen for its simplicity, fun groove, and potential for soloing over. The two key learning outcomes here are the ability to play off-beats and the ability to lock together two different melody lines within a chord pattern.
12 Bar Blues
This two session project is a great opportunity to combine iPads and acoustic instruments, with the key learning outcomes focused on constructing cohesive solos.This composition can be tackled as part of a wider curriculum topic (slavery, migration, civil rights).
Soundtrack to a Music Video
This five session project sees students creating short films and with accompanying soundtracks. It really brings out the creative side of our students, and the videos created are often very impressive and can be shared with parents online.Speaking of working across the curriculum, creating music videos gives us a number of opportunities to view another subject from a new angle. Our film could dramatise a moment from history or the evolution of a caterpillar into a butterfly.
The Science of Music
This project contains a series of single session exercises that use Garageband to explore various scientific phenomena – frequency, soundwaves, harmonics, reverb.
GARAGEBAND Version 1: EL GRANDE
GarageBand Version 1: A MUSICAL SCENE
This project is focused on developing an understanding of harmony, and introduces two key aspects of songwriting: using minor and major chords and generating vocals.
We also explore three of the most powerful features of GarageBand: the Smart Strings, which provide beautiful string arrangements that we can manipulate to suit our needs; the Arpeggiator and the Sampler. We will use all three to create a soundscape and build a musical story.
PLUS More Content Added Each Month
Coming Soon:
- Best Notation apps
- Best apps for SEND
- Reggae & Ska
- How to Synchronise and Link together multiple iPads
- How to Use third party apps in GarageBand
- Performing with technology
- Webinars with the experts
What our Customers are Saying:
"Specialist Expertise"
The Dance E-Jay programme has offered our pupils the opportunity to create the kind of music they really want to hear. The software has developed their musical understanding and…Read More
"Loads of Fun"
Phil's training workshop was relaxing and engaging. It was loads of fun and very useful. There was a careful selection of programs, especially ‘eJay’ and we were allowed to experiment with… Read More
"Bring a Voice to Students"
Phil worked with a cohort of our students with more profound and multiple learning difficulties and enabled them to bring their creative energies into form though musical performance…Read More
Your Instructors
Phil believes in the incredible power of music and through this, the potential for self-expression, growth and fulfillment.
Like his workshop leader heroes, he sees the music workshop as a space for personal and social transformation.
This composition project is intended as a culmination of all the composition work done so far. It gives pupils a framework within which they are free to compose according their own interests and abilities, working through a flow diagram with various options for content creation. Each stage of the flow diagram has a suggested process that promotes our key musical learning outcomes, as well as other processes that appear elsewhere in the book. It adheres to the typical pop song form, complete with bridge/middle eight and should be seen as an opportunity to create something that would not seem out of place in the Top 40. We have also successfully used this method with adults.
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