Learning Objectives Student Activities State and National Assessment

Standards

Unit 1:
Foundations
of Music
Production

Week 1 -Students will familiarize GarageBand activities CA Music Content Class Discusison
themselves with the course the students will complete Standards
syllabus and the class rules and simple modules that will 1.1, 3.1 3.3, 5.1, 5.2 In-class activities
expectations. teach them the basics of
recording sound and National Arts Standards GarageBand Modules
-Students will become familiar with manipulating sound. MU:[Link]
their work environment including MU:[Link]
proper computer etiquette. -Group Reading of the
Syllabus
-Using the DAW, students will learn
basic recording and sound -Classroom Procedures/
manipulation techniques. Syllabus Jigsaw Activity

Week 2 -Students will continue to refine the Postersthe students will CA Music Content Objective Quiz
basic sound manipulation be placed in groups and Standards
techniques. given one major era in 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2 Class Discussion
music production and they
-Students will describe the nature of will create an National Arts Standards In-class Projects
recorded music from its inception advertisement promoting MU:[Link]
through the present day. that era. MU:[Link]
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-Students will describe the My favorite rock star MU:[Link]
elements of an effective podcast. podcastthe students will MU:[Link]
use basic editing methods
-Students will learn about the in order to talk about and
pertinent legal and ethical issues give various exaples of
relevant to music production. their favorite popular
singer/band.
Learning Objectives Student Activities State and National Assessment
Standards

Unit 2:
Popular and
Classical
Music

Week 3 -Students will describe the four Mashup Projectthe CA Music Content GarageBand Projects
fundamental aspects of music students will take an Standards
(beat, melody, harmony, rhythm) excerpt from a classical 1.5, 2.4, 2.5, 3.3, 5.2 Listening Activities
and how they come together to piece of their choosing
create a coherent musical work. and enhance it using the National Arts Standards Grahic Organizers
prerecorded audio loops MU:[Link]
-Students will use aural examples or original voice MU:[Link]
in order to describe the four basic recordings using MU:[Link]
qualities of music discussed in GarageBand. MU:[Link]
class.
Vocabulary Puzzles
-Students will compare and contrast Students will create
how the four basic musical qualities puzzles with content area
are used in classical and popular vocabulary and
music using given aural examples. definitions/pictures to help
them learn the vocabulary
for the week.

Venn Diagram activity.

Learning Objectives Student Activities State and National Assessment
Standards

Week 4 -Students will classify musical Audio Loop Layering CA Music Content Objective Quiz
voices (melody, coutermelody, Projectin groups of two, Standards
harmony, bass line, rhythmic) using the students will use 1.5, 2.4, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 4.3 GarageBand Projects
given aural examples. prerecorded loops and
basic editing techniques National Arts Standards Class Discussion
-Students will demonstrate in GarageBand in order to MU:[Link]
understanding of classifying create orignal MU:[Link] Writing Assignment
musical voices through collaborative works. MU:[Link]
composition. MU:[Link]
Project MCHBthe
students will produce an
original work using audio
loops in GarageBand.
They will incorporate a
melodic line, a bass line,
and a rhythmic line.
Countermelody and
harmony are optional.

Unit 3: The
Producer as
Composer
Learning Objectives Student Activities State and National Assessment
Standards

Week 5 -Students will compare and contrast Piano MapStudents will CA Music Content Class Discussion
classical composers and popular create a visual Standards
music producers. representation of the 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.4, 5.2 Graphic Organizers
piano keyboard to help
-Students will name the musical them learn the notes of a National Arts Standards
alphabet and its relationship to the piano. MU:[Link]
keys on a piano and to the music MU:[Link]
staff. ModulesStudents will MU:[Link]
complete modules that MU:[Link]
-Students will be able to write music will help them learn music
using basic rhythmic values. notation and the piano
keyboard.

Week 6 -Students will be able to select and Pedal Point Projectthe CA Music Content GarageBand Projcetformatve
compose music with the instrument students will produce a Standards assessment
sounds in GarageBand. musical work in C major 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.4, 4.1
using two voices, one of Class Discussion
-Students will produce original which is a sustained National Arts Standards
musical works in GarageBand pedal. MU:[Link]
using basic music notation. MU:[Link]
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Learning Objectives Student Activities State and National Assessment
Standards

Week 7 -Students will be able to identify the

Remix Projectthe CA Music Content Objective Quiz
theme in a given aural example. students will take a given Standards
melody and develop it 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 2.4, 3.3, 4.1, GarageBand Projects
-Students will identify and describe using the techniques 4.2, 5.2 formative assessment
various composition techniques that discussed in class.
composers and producers use to National Arts Standards
manipulate a theme (augmentation, Speech Remixing MU:[Link]
diminution, fragmentation) Students will record MU:[Link]
themselves speaking and MU:[Link]
-Students will define remix and remix it using techniques MU:[Link]
describe the qualities of a remix in discussed in class. MU:[Link]
pop music.

-Students will be able to produce Introduce the Film Scoring

original musical works using a Project to students.
theme and development.

Unit 4:
Music and
Film

Week 8 -Students will describe the Film Scoring Projectin CA Music Content Writing assignments
relationship between the music and groups of three, the Standards
film art forms. students will shoot a short 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, GarageBand Projects
video and they will use 5.1, 5.2 formative assessment
-Students will describe mood and existing popular songs or
how it is evoked in pop music. original works to enhance National Arts Standards
the mood of the music. MU:[Link]
-Students will produce original MU:[Link]
works portraying a variety of MU:[Link]
moods. MU:[Link]
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-Students will, in writing, defend
their artistic choices.
Learning Objectives Student Activities State and National Assessment
Standards

Week 9 -Students will describe the function Film Scoring Projectin CA Music Content Portfolio Projectsummative
of a film score and how music is groups of three, the Standards assessment
used to create and enhance mood students will shoot a short 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2,
in a film. video and they will use 5.1, 5.2 Writing Assignments
existing popular songs or
-The students will, in writing, defend original works to enhance National Arts Standards Objective Quiz
their artistic choices. the mood of the music. MU:[Link]
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-The students will learn about the -Album portfolio MU:[Link]
album-making process. students will take their MU:[Link]
projects for the semester MU:[Link]
and arrange them into a
specific order, as if they
were creating an album.