Sessions Day 3 : Wednesday
ELECTIVE 9
9.1 Youtube in Music Education
James Frankel
This session will focus on innovative ways to integrate YouTube into all aspects of the music curriculum. Based on the book of the same name published by Hal Leonard, author James Frankel will provide music educators with an overview of how to use the site with students, including: how to create private groups and channels, how to create and upload videos on both the Mac & PC, copyright issues, as well as specific videos, lesson plans, and channels that can be useful in teaching students about music.
9.2 Free and Low-Cost Music Software for the Interactive Whiteboard
Samuel Wright
Interactive whiteboards have become a permanent fixture in many music classrooms, but not many teachers know that there are a range of free and low-cost software solutions that make music literacy and performance fun and engaging. This session will demonstrate a number of options.
Part one - Fun and Games - will be an exploration of the applications available from The Music Interactive, with audience participation and lesson ideas: Boom (for Boomwhackers), Rhythm Adding, Rhythm Blocks, Rhythm Dictation, Staff Wars 1, Staff Wars 2. Video demonstrations are online here: http://bit.ly/cMAvyJ
Part two will look at Theory and Listening applications: Drawn to Keys, Aquallegro, Capo v2.0, and iAnalyse. We'll also explore more complex applications for stage 5 or 6 using Instrument applications: Making Music (by David Ahmed), Flash Instruments (resources downloaded from web that run in Flash Player) and Sibelius Instruments (a complete instrument encyclopedia with quizzes)
Part three - Performance - will facilitate a group percussion performance of some latin jazz with percussion and piano etc for stages 4, 5 or 6: using the Latin Jazz app from The Music Interactive.
A handout detailing where to find all applications, their pricing and any other apps or web links will be provided.
Outcomes covered in this session: NSW Syllabus - Listening, Composing, Performing
9.3 The Power of Pro Tools
Myke Ireland - Allans Music + Billy Hyde
How often have you heard Pro Tools being referred to as the “industry standard”? Nearly everyone has heard of Pro Tools at some stage or another, but in what context? Why is it so good? And what makes it any different from any other platform?
Pro Tools comes with a lot of hidden little treasures, some stuff you never even get to see, let alone experience how much time it can save you on any production. There’s a wealth of shortcuts, channel strip settings, and pug in tricks all built in to the native program that are the reason it is the most popular platform in the world.
In this session we’ll give you a handful of the Pro Tools Power User tips and tricks that can save a mountain of time and bring any basic recording up to a professional standard.
9.4 Top Features To Save You Time In Sibelius
Peter Wardrobe
This Sibelius session is all about working smarter, not harder. If you've ever wondered what the Ideas window was all about, what Versions are, or wanted to see Magnetic Layout in action, this hands-on session is for you.There will be top tips for arranging with a couple of clicks, entering and realising chord symbols quickly, instantly entering lyrics from a text file, using the new onscreen Keyboard and Fretboard and much more.
9.5 Interactive PDF Documents
Anne Wisdom
Tired of carrying around a heavy bag full of CDs, DVDs, music scores, text books, worksheets and more? Tired of spending hours providing written feedback for assignments? Like to know how to reduce all the resources you need for a lesson or unit of work into one document AND add recorded voice comments, or sticky note comments, as you mark student assignments? This is your chance to learn how to create an interactive document containing score extracts, audio excerpts, video clips, interactive text fields and much more. Develop a self-contained unprepared listening lesson, or tutorial, or fact sheet with all the resources embedded within the document. No need to worry about missing links to audio or video anymore, it’s all there in the one document. AND it all begins with notating a score extract in FINALE 2011! What more could you ask? See you at my workshop.
9.6 Building Great Drum and Bass Grooves
George J. Hess
The rhythm section is often ignored in music classrooms, mainly because most teachers aren’t really trained in that area. But playing drums and bass using MIDI keyboards controlling software synthesizers and samplers is not only easy but also a lot of fun. This session will show how to build great drum and bass grooves in a variety of genres, from jazz to world music styles.
Drums beats and bass lines are a great way to teach rhythm, variation and musical styles and can also be used to teach advanced concepts like harmony and simple counterpoint. Most software-based sample players also include tools to modify the sound that can be used to teach basic sound design and acoustics.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the session, participants will
• Be able to program a step-based sequencer
• Be able to record drum patterns using loop-overdub and multitrack recording techniques
• Edit recorded drumbeats
• Use prerecorded loops effectively
• Modify sample or synthesizer-based drum and bass sounds
• Understand the basics of drum beats in a variety of styles
• Understand the relationship between bass and drums
• Know how to vary a drum beat appropriately
• Use appropriate effects processing to improve drums and bass.
9.7 Reaping the Benefits of Shareware Music Making (Part 1)
Stephen Stanfield
Reaping the benefits of Shareware Music Making: a hands-on guide to creative music making with Cockos Reaper.
Many music classrooms may have access to computers, and can establish some semblance of a computer music workstation, but then have limited funds when it comes to purchasing appropriate MIDI sequencing and audio recording software. The world of freeware and shareware is full of applications to assist struggling musicians, students and classroom music teachers to embrace music technology and incorporate digital music making into their creative music output. Cockos REAPER is one such digital audio and midi workstation that offers it’s users an abundance of creative tools to construct all styles of music. “REAPER is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.”
With REAPER you can freely mix audio and MIDI routing, even within a single track and use unlimited tracks (CPU dependent). REAPER includes over a dozen top-quality 64-bit ReaPlugs, the celebrated Elastique 2 real-time pitch-shifting engine, full REX support, literally hundreds of user-programmable effects and can run almost any VST, DX, or AU (OSX only) plug-in, or use the included JS audio and MIDI plug-in scripting engine to create your own.
This workshop will take participants through the creative operation and application of REAPER. Topics covered will include: Digital Music Making; MIDI Sequencing; Software Instruments; Audio Capture and Editing; Effects Processing; Video and still image syncing for student, teacher and professional applications.
REAPER is also cross-platform: MAC and Windows.
9.8 Playing Rhythms and Exploring World Music
Marcel Pusey
Hands-on! This session will give an overview of ways to teach students about Latin and African music. You will learn all about the instruments, the rhythms, and the melodies of a variety of styles of music from these continents. Learn how to get the whole class playing a range of rhythms from Samba to Soukous using a variety of percussion. Learn how to start improvising, how to practice rhythms and get students ‘Jammin’ World Music playing their own instruments.
NOTE: Please bring along your instrument of choice if you can (delegates without instruments can use provided percussion). You will be all ‘technologied’ out! Here is the opportunity to get back to REAL instruments. It’s all about the music, and you’ll be itching to play!
9.9 Recording for the Non-Technical (with guest presenter Josh Munday)
Attila Szlay & Josh Munday
There are now a huge range of digital music products vying for a place in your school's technology resources. Sometimes it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. This session will showcase real solutions producing quick results in recording rehearsals, performances, and creating backing tracks with a minimum of fuss. This is an ideal opportunity to learn about the tools available to help you and your students achieve your curriculum outcomes.
The session will cover software options, hardware options and using combinations of the two. Discover which is most suited to you and ask questions as we go. The session will be co-presented by BOSS Guitar Specialist Josh Munday the leading clinician in the country.
ELECTIVE 10
10.1 Gearing Up for Musical Futures (repeat of 6.1)
Attila Szlay
Come and get your hands on the gear that will help make your journey into this new approach to music education an exciting and engaging one. This session will give you opportunities to develop your confidence using simple to understand technologies that will help you achieve your Musical Futures outcomes.
See the amazing new JamHub (the "Silent Rehearsal" tool) in action and the different ways that you can use it in the classroom. Explore electronic percussion and its ability to develop rhythm skills in all musicians. There will also be a range of recording and performance tools covered in this session.
10.2 Live sound technology - how to sound great in 90 minutes
Keith Huxtable and Warrick Dowdy
The PA or Sound Reinforcement system is used everywhere and by everyone in schools, whether for addressing an assembly, sports days, miking up your choir or ensemble or a full blown rock concert. Few systems however, big or small, are used to their optimum capabilities.
This workshop will take you from the “in” to the “out” of PA with some simple, but practical pointers to get the sound you want.
The session will explain some basic, but most important characteristics of sound that you should know about. It will include the setting up of a live sound system, choosing the right microphones (and how to use them) with a practical demonstration. You will take away a number of simple techniques that you can immediately apply ... and pass on to your students and colleagues. A practical session useful for all teachers.
10.3 Making Music with Mobile Devices (repeat of 1.3)
Michael Allen
Michael from Apple will take you on a quick tour of some of the amazing music apps for iPhone and iPad. Topics covered include: iPad instrument apps, music creation on iPad and iPhone, and connecting audio and MIDI devices to iPad. iPads will be supplied for the duration of the session.
10.4 New Trends in Music Technology
James Frankel
This session will explore the latest music technology devices and software and how they can be integrated into the music curriculum. Many new hardware and software titles will be demonstrated.
Andy Hagerman
Mixing and Mastering are the final, and often overlooked processes that put the final polish onto your composition to make it sound as big and as professional as possible. Andy will walk you through the both processes, revealing tips and strategies that the professionals use that will make your audio CDs really stand out and your students say “how did you do that?”
10.6 Online learning and music: the sublime to the ridiculous.
James Humberstone
This session will look at delivering your musical units of work online to your students, as well as how your students can use the internet to improve their musical learning. It will being by discovering how free Wordpress blogs can be used to deliver units and for students to use for reflective practice. Next, we will look at how to create "how-to" tutorial documents as PDF and tutorial movies using video cameras and screen capture software. Finally, we will author our unit of work ready for the iPhone incredibly easily through Wordpress, and then have a taste of doing it the difficult way with HTML. Bring coffee!
10.7 Reaping the Benefits of Shareware Music Making (Part 2)
Stephen Stanfield
Reaping the benefits of Shareware Music Making: a hands-on guide to creative music making with Cockos Reaper.
Many music classrooms may have access to computers, and can establish some semblance of a computer music workstation, but then have limited funds when it comes to purchasing appropriate MIDI sequencing and audio recording software. The world of freeware and shareware is full of applications to assist struggling musicians, students and classroom music teachers to embrace music technology and incorporate digital music making into their creative music output. Cockos REAPER is one such digital audio and midi workstation that offers it’s users an abundance of creative tools to construct all styles of music. “REAPER is a digital audio workstation: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment.”
With REAPER you can freely mix audio and MIDI routing, even within a single track and use unlimited tracks (CPU dependent). REAPER includes over a dozen top-quality 64-bit ReaPlugs, the celebrated Elastique 2 real-time pitch-shifting engine, full REX support, literally hundreds of user-programmable effects and can run almost any VST, DX, or AU (OSX only) plug-in, or use the included JS audio and MIDI plug-in scripting engine to create your own.
This workshop will take participants through the creative operation and application of REAPER. Topics covered will include: Digital Music Making; MIDI Sequencing; Software Instruments; Audio Capture and Editing; Effects Processing; Video and still image syncing for student, teacher and professional applications.
REAPER is also cross-platform: MAC and Windows.
10.8 An "Instant-Learn" Music Education System
Dr Tom Benjamin
This workshop applies demonstrates a new approach to introductory music education. Rather than training fingers to match the music score the music is reverse-engineered to fit the ergonomics of the player. Thus beginners start with one or two-fingered pseudo-chords on a guitar and play along to sound tracks that have been transposed to these chords. The result is that learners instantly fit in and sound good. This is most-easily achieved through software that makes such re-arrangement a simple ‘search & replace’ exercise. The chord table used as a reference is based on the drone strings that arise when simpler fingerings are used – for instance a set might be transposed from C-F-G to become Cmaj7-F2- G6 in this system. The method will be demonstrated using Band in a Box to create versions of songs that can then be played with simple fingerings. The system was developed on guitar but the principles can be applied to many other instruments. Of particular interest will be the low cost requirements of using the free online resources, low-spec versions of Band in a Box or Jammer, and the ability to include single-octave instruments such as recorders, xylophones or even junk bands into ensembles. For copyright reasons, examples are used from well-known public domain songs but the method can be applied to many types of contemporary music.
10.9 Amazing Audacity: backing tracks, sound stories, recording and editing (for free!)
Katie Wardrobe
Audacity is free audio editing program for PC and Mac and an indispensable tool for teachers in all subject areas. This session will look at some of the great ways that Audacity can be utilised in the music classroom and instrumental teaching studio:
1. Learn how to edit songs from your iTunes library - change tempo and pitch, remove vocals, create fade-ins/outs, alter the song form
2. Edit audio files to create short musical examples and embed them in your Powerpoint or Keynote presentation
3. Manipulate your voice to create your own fantastic character voices for sound stories
4. Explore the basics of recording student performances and the equipment options to build a simple recording kit
ELECTIVE 11
11.1 A Week in Australian Idol: From Score to Screen with MD David Pritchard-Blunt
David Pritchard-Blunt
From the scratching out a pencil sketch of an arrangement at the beginning of the week, to completing the orchestration of each song in Sibelius by email with multiple arrangers just a few days later, life as the Australian Idol musical director is fast-paced and high-pressured. David Pritchard-Blunt - Australian Idol MD in 2009 and Keyboardist/Arranger for Australian Idol from 2003-2008 - will discuss the work flow and tools used to put together the many varied arrangements for each contestant in the live Idol shows. David will talk about working effectively with a team of arrangers throughout Sydney, the Idol rehearsal process, altering the score and parts on-the-fly and preparing for the final performance.
11.2 Online Resources That You Can't Live Without: RIP Music - Record, Inspire, Publish
Stephen Sajkowsky
Music resources online are now a dime a dozen, but there seems to be little time to search, filter, and adequately implement the resources into the classroom without getting out of date. Steve Sajkowsky will explore the best contemporary resource packages made available through the SoundHouse Music Alliance. The resources explored and discussed will be:
- 3 Fire Music/SoundHouse Video- 3 Fire Music is live streaming and uses known songs showing the drums, bass, piano and guitar in separate windows. An amazingly entertaining and fun resource for students to learn music as quickly as possible
- Gigajam- An enormous online resource for guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard. Never be without a lesson plan again!
- O-Generator- A great aural/visual tool for students to play and generate fantastic rhythms within seconds!
- RIP Music- Record…Inspire…Publish. An online collective site in which students and teachers can post, share, “mash-up” their music, and share it with the world.
11.3 Media In The Middle Years
Luke Marinovich and Soo Yu Shen
Start your students' creative media experiences on tools that provide a pathway to the programs they will be using in their tertiary studies and later in industry jobs. Both Avid Studio and Pro Tools SE were designed for education and as a result, both programs feature simplified screens which are closely related to the full versions. Students are able to implement professional work processes from the beginning that they can carry with them into their future.
Avid Studio is Avid’s Windows solution for middle school video editing. Designed with ease of use as a priority, the program provides links to specific “How To” videos only available to Studio users saving time and effort for you and your students. Avid’s Pro Tools SE is the perfect starting point for those starting on their audio journey. Designed by the education team behind Sibelius, its user interface is simple to use and lays the foundation to using Pro Tools itself. Product Specialists Soo Yu Shen and Luke Marinovich will give you a concise tour of both of these exciting new products.
11.4 Auralia and Musition Indepth- Record Keeping, Assessment, Testing & Customisation
Peter Lee
Auralia 4 and Musition 4 offer awesome record keeping, assessment, testing and syllabus customisation features. In this session you will learn how these can easily work in your classroom. We will learn how to enrol students, view results, set electronic worksheets, customise Auralia and Musition to suit your needs and explore the included syllabuses.
If you would like to reduce the number of theory worksheets that you mark and need to assess your students - come along to this session!
11.5 Making Your Own Professional Leadsheets With The Creator of The Australian Jazz Real Book
Tim Nikolsky
Create lead sheets like an expert: Tim Nikolsky is currently assembling the Australian Jazz Real Book, a collection of Australian jazz tunes presented in leadsheet format (Melody, Chords, Lyrics) for use by practising and performing musicians. With the draft AJRB at over 550 pages and 380+ tunes, it promises to be a comprehensive resource representing the history and development of Australian Jazz over the past 90 years. In this session, Tim will show you his Sibelius tips, tricks and time-saving techniques on creating professional leadsheets of original tunes that your students will be inspired to play!
Tim is currently doing a PhD at RMIT University where the title of his PhD research thesis is: "The Development of an Australian Jazz Real Book as an educational and practical resource for practicing and professional musicians".
11.6 The Return of The Keyboard Lab
Myke Ireland - Allans Music + Billy Hyde
Everyone’s seen a keyboard lab… but have you ever seen one fully operational with all its components still in working order? Odds are probably not, simply because most keyboard labs are dinosaurs that were put into schools in the late eighties or early nineties!!! Time have changed and so have labs… These days the old keyboard lab can incorporate computers and software, even drum kits and guitars and all are controllable from a teacher's module maintaining order across the classroom.
We’ll show you how to set up an interconnected lab of any description with any selection of instruments of software you care to implement. Great for small group rehearsals, classroom theory, or full-scale lectures… and all in relative silence!
11.7 Three ways for music teachers to use technology, Part 3: Use tech in the classroom
Paul Kucharski
In this session Paul will demonstrate how students can gain valuable feedback through looking and listening to themselves after they have created a basic recording in their instrumental lesson. Using an inexpensive microphone and the free Audacity software, students can gain aural and visual feedback on the shape of individual notes, articulations, phrasing and dynamics. Paul will then explore how to create a well-polished recording using more sophisticated software and hardware and how to incorporate accompaniments as either mp3s or midi files. Paul will show you how to incorporate social-constructivist teaching principles into the group instrumental lesson by having students assist in the recording process by helping each other record their tracks and also how the students can use this process to participate in self and peer assessment. Paul will then show you how to take the final product and produce a CD recording that parents can listen to and become more participatory in their child’s music education. Paul will also show you how to use the Moodle system to engage students in discussion about their work, improve critical listening skills and participate in self and peer feedback to enable them to gain control of their learning and be more involved in the decision making process.
11.8 Improve your students’ music theory anytime with EMT3 web and Music Ace
Len Henderson
In this session we will explore software that teaches music theory in an entertaining way. Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory software has always been a popular software title for teaching music theory to younger students, and the new version 3 is a complete rewrite, drawing on the same educational content but with a new contemporary interface and web-based style of presentation. As it can be delivered over the web, there is no installation required (no IT department needed). Teachers have administration access to their own EMT website which keeps track of student progress and results 24/7, while students have the convenience of accessing lessons from any internet-enabled computer.
Music Ace Maestro is the latest incarnation of a program which has won many educator awards. We will look at the enhanced student progress tracking abilities of this version, and let Maestro Max guide us through some fun theory and musicianship lessons. Kids can get creative and compose their own tunes using the Doodle Pad, and compete for the highest score in the games that follow each lesson. Music Ace can be delivered on individual student workstations or used in a classroom with Interactive Whiteboard. This session is suitable for primary and middle school teachers.
11.9 Managing Students in Performance Groups using Optimo
Yvonne Lang
This session will take an in depth look at the student module of Optimoplus to show how the information can be easily managed within the one system and applied to many tasks.
We will look at how to manage students which have been allocated to performance ensembles, creating lists for rehearsals, camp lists and many others. Find out how to easily transfer this information and create new performance groups for the new year and archive the 'old' ensemble list. Keep a history of your players and their details to form alumni. Find out how to use the performance groups information and merge it with concert programs. Say goodbye to multiple and incomplete worksheets!
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