iPad Music Camp: Day 2 curriculum

On Day 1, we spent a lot of time laying the ground work for the rest of camp. We learned the basics of recording, editing, quantization, and more. Now that we have the basics down, we can progress to actually making some music.

Day 2

Welcome and Review Procedures (5 minutes):
– Bathroom, food and drink, general outline, getting iPads

“Roar” (20 minutes):
– Play 45 seconds of Katy Perry’s “Roar,” focusing on the bass line.
– Show students how to get to “Vintage Lead” under the keyboard instruments in GarageBand.
– Demonstrate bass line for students. C2. Pitch middle button (not glissando or scroll)
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– Demonstrate recording over their “Roar” keyboard part and how to delete one track and re-record without starting a new song.
– By end of segment, they should have a clean 8 measures of bass line along with the piano part.

Smart Guitars (25 minutes):
– Demonstrate playing the Smart Guitar (Acoustic) on the screen.
– Notes
– Chords
– Accompaniment patterns
– How to change the pre-set chords
– Five minutes to play around with that and ask questions

“Home” (15 minutes):
– 120 BPM, Autoplay 3, Here are the chords for Phillip Phillips’ “Home.”
– Practice time
– Group performance

Smart Guitars (10 minutes):
– Demonstrate playing the Smart Guitar (Hard Rock) on the screen.
– Accompaniment patterns (different than acoustic)
– Experiment with Vintage Drive and Robo Flanger
– Five minutes to play around with that and ask questions

“Smoke on the Water” (10 minutes):
– Demonstrate the main riff for “Smoke on the Water” using the Hard Rock Guitar.
– Students practice.
– Group perform.

Introduce loops (if time)
– They are in the Track View.

Reflection (10 minutes):
– Review Sound Recorder, converting to mp3s, & sharing to Edmodo.
– Have students reflect on the questions using Sound Recorder and upload their podcast to Edmodo.

• What did you like better about today than yesterday?
• How did you improve from Day 1 to Day 2?
• What specific thing can you improve on as we move to Day 3?
• Are you having fun? Why or why not?

Clean-up time (5 minutes):
– Students return iPads to their port and charge them. Pick up any trash and discard.

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