Category Archives: iPad Recording Seminars-E101
These seminars and blog postings are specifically for beginners and/r elementary school children to become comfortable with using the iPad as a means to be creative.
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Evolving Technology in Music Education
Precious Blood Garageband Workshop
Music teacher Ms. Smith speaks about the GarageBand Workshop.
The only technical problem we encountered was getting our new, original music inserted into the video. Apple’s iMovie Trailer software allows the filmmaker to chose music only from a limited amount of music samples found within iMovie. In order to insert the kid’s musical compositions, a little manipulation needed to be done. Read my post here on how to do this successfully. As usual, the kids were immediately focused and raring to get to work. The idea of creating music on their iPads, iPhones and/or laptops grabbed onto and held their attention throughout the entire day. We’re all looking forward to seeing the final video and seeing Ms. Smith’s classroom again in September!Prince of Peace Workshop Grabs Hold and Inspires
“ The one thing that I was hoping for was getting myself more used to using technology in the classroom and I think that has been accomplished because I have started to think where I can use these applications, and when.” Francesca Adamo, Prince of Peace Grade 6 Teacher
Grade 5 and 6 students combined for a full day of hands on learning with their iPads and Garageband. The result was 60 new songs, created by 60 enthusiastic kids as part of a cross curricular learning adventure. The children were asked to bring in artifacts that were “personal, and had great emotional meaning to them” and by applying their newfound knowledge of what “Mood, Tempo, Pitch and Dynamics” in music means, go and create their own song that best represented their feelings about the artifacts.“So phenomenal, that we want to have more kids being able to learn (GarageBand).” Martha Fitzpatrick, Prince of Peace Elementary School Principal
It was an endearing process as many of the children brought in photographs of their family members accompanied by a short description of their thoughts. We managed to post 52 of the songs on Youtube for the kids to brag about! We even managed to coax a few of the students into laying down a vocal track! In addition, the workshop gained rave reviews from teachers at Prince of Peace as well as the Principal herself, Martha Fitzpatrick but seriously, there’s nothing more heartwarming than the approval and excitement of the kids once they’ve experienced the feeling of making a song that they’ve dedicated to their loved ones!“The kids we all lined up, (at recess) outside looking in here and I could see they all wanted to get in on the action”
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Cross Curricular Music Lessons

Welcome Introduction
When I was a kid in school, the only hope I had for ever becoming involved in the recording end of the music business was to land a job in a recording studio, and the average kid’s chance of that ever happening was about 1 in a million. The only other possible option was to get a huge loan from the bank and build your own however, without the experience necessary to run a recording studio, banks didn’t look to favorably on this option.
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Even as technology advanced toward the days of the home studio, companies such as Teac/Tascam began making 4 track open reel recorders but for a young teen, these too provided many financial woes. It wasn’t just the recorder that you needed in order to make recordings. You also needed a mixer, microphones, keyboards, guitars, amplifiers, speakers and the list goes on. The kicker is that, none of this high tech, expensive recording equipment guaranteed you with a “hi-fi” result. The equipment was only as good as the operator.
Assuming that you’d made a decent recording, how were you ever going to get it out there to the masses? There were no YouTube or Facebook sites for you to boldly solicit your awesome recordings. You were at the mercy of record companies, managers, publishers and the like. Once again, as a recording engineer, producer or songwriter, you were in the “dime a dozen” category. Millions were trying to do exactly what you were doing but without the assistance of social media.
There were no schools at that time specializing in Recording Engineering or Music Production. You were pretty much on your own unless you happened to know someone in the “biz”. By the mid 1980’s it became even more complicated. Digital technology was introduced. All of a sudden, and in the matter of a couple of years, analog technology was being weeded out in favor of the new digital technology. Vinyl recordings were being replaced with CD’s and computers were being introduced to the recording studios. If you didn’t embrace them, your days were silently numbered.
More and more recording facilities were using a digital recording system called ProTools. The majority of seasoned professionals scoffed at the idea of using a computer to record “high quality” records with and to this day, there are still many who are hanging onto that the theory that analog recordings are still the way to go. Unfortunately, those professionals are now mostly unemployed.