MUSIC ARTS
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Our Music track provides a wealth of choices from instrumental music to voice to beat production. Discover your form of musical expression with musicians who have toured the globe as well as provided music education across the nation for over 10,000 young people.
K & 1st Grade
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Capoeira Music of the Roda with Branch
Capoeira is the martial art disguised as a dance used by kidnapped Africans to gain their freedom during times of slavery. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to Capoeira’s culture through its history, music through its instruments, language through its songs and how this supports the capoeira roda.
2nd & 3rd Grades
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Hip-Hop Emceeing with Safahri
We will dive into the depths of rhyming words and creating punchlines, flows, bars, lyrics, words within words, similes, metaphors, and creating hooks over new and old beats each class. Students will be encouraged to take a deep look at the history of poetry and rap from all over the world from the beginning of hip hop. Students will be asked to take influence from anything they have ever read, watched, heard, listened to, experienced, been moved by, overcome & been exposed to and break it down into a dope song during the semester. The final project will be of each individual student’s creation, adding to the legacy of the ever evolving hop hop universe.
4th & 5th Grades
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Songwriting with Raliegh
Explore and learn the professional music industry language with the study of lyrics, melody, harmony and form to create songs. Simple computer tools will be used to aid in creating, hearing and notating your work. Everyone finishes the course completing one song documented with handwritten music notation of the song (lead sheet style) and a simple audio recording demonstrating the song. Just as songwriting teams share their monetary rewards, songwriting teams in this class will share their point “royalties.” The power of working alone vs together will be explored as related to its importance and nature to the business of songwriting. Materials needed: computer/laptop/chromebook/or ipad
6th - 8th Grades
Beat Making with Ranzel
By the end of this course, students will be able to teach and make their own projects based on the basic concepts of the Arts and Technology! They will have a fundamental understanding of creating and learning more complex Audio Production Techniques. Our AP(Audio Production) students will learn how to record and operate professional recording software. Students will come away with a greater knowledge of how to be creative, innovative, and confident that they can accomplish any goal or dream they put their mind to. Materials needed: computer/laptop/chromebook/or ipad
9th - 12th Grades
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BeatMaking with Ranzel
By the end of this course, students will be able to teach and make their own projects based on the basic concepts of the Arts and Technology! They will have a fundamental understanding of creating and learning more complex Audio Production Techniques. Our AP(Audio Production) students will learn how to record and operate professional recording software. Students will come away with a greater knowledge of how to be creative, innovative, and confident that they can accomplish any goal or dream they put their mind to. Materials needed: computer/laptop/chromebook/or ipad
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