iPads in the Music Room

3rd grade has been spending some time checking out the Garage Band app on the library iPads! They've been having a blast creating their own melodies with string sections, guitar riffs, and drum kit. A class favorite has Smart Drums where they can combine various instruments and experiment with what happens when they move and instrument closer to one of the settings like this: 

 Here's some of the ladies recording each other's compositions and then editing it in the Audio Recorder. 

The boys really have a knack for some keyboard chops!

Fifth grade students have been using an app called Animoto to create video presentations for their composer research project. They've spent several days researching all sorts of information about musicians ranging from Mozart and Beethoven to Bob Dylan to Carlos Santana and just about anyone in between! With this app, students have been collecting images that represent aspects of their musician such as portraits, awards, album covers, famous concerts, etc. Once they built a picture timeline of their musician's life, they needed to create effective captions to explain what each image represents. 

Here's a student brainstorming creative captions about the electric guitarist and rock musician, Jimi Hendrix!

Sample finished project about George Gershwin!