Spring 2017 Studio Music Projects
For the rest of this quarter, we will be doing either/or independent study or group work on a number of different music technology projects. Below, you will have the chance to pick a technology and explore it. I have listed the technologies and the timeline you will have to complete the projects below.
Music Technologies:
IF you page is asking for a password try "Bankai"
Pedals (Login: MPIPedals Password: MPIPedals)
Aaron, Mahina, Kualii
You will be using two different types of pedals with various instruments. The first is the Boss ME-80 Multiple Effects Pedal. This is one of the best effects pedals money can buy and with this pedal, you can pretty much imitate just about any effects you can hear on the radio. The other pedal is an RC-3 which is a looping pedal which you can learn to use to accompany yourself. Both pedals are used by amateurs and professionals on the streets in live performances and in the studio.
http://mpipedals2017.weebly.com/about.html
Launchpad (Login: MPILaunch Password: MPILaunch)
Milan
The Launchpad is a music technology that combines a number of different technologies into one device. The Launchpad can be used as a musical instrument, a mixing device, and so much more. With programmable buttons, you can theoretically use the device to do just about anything you want including sound sampling (what is used in dubstep and similar types of music) to even leveling and balancing other sounds. This device requires a laptop and addition software (which is free) but if you don't have a laptop, you may have a hard time with this.
howonedoesthelaunchpad.weebly.com
ProTools (Login: MPIProTools Password: MPIProTools)
Nicolette, Zach
ProTools is the "industry standard" for recording any type of sound. The program can be used for professional quality sound editing as well as putting sound to video. You will be using a free version of ProTools called ProTools First. You will need to have a laptop to use ProTools on your own however we do have a computer in the Orchestra Room that has a copy of ProTools you can use.
http://mpiprotools.weebly.com/
Online Launchpad (Login: MPIOLaunch Password: MPIOLaunch)
The Online Launchpad is literally a Launchpad that you can use/play with your computer using your keyboard to simulate the keys on a Launchpad. You can find a link to the site here:
https://agile-spire-1086.herokuapp.com/
This does not require any additional software and can be used on your iPad.
http://mpiolaunch.weebly.com/
Garage Band
Garage band is an app that you get with your iPad. This is a good program that has a number of features that can be used for professional recording however it is not like ProTools. Garage Band however, does have a number of different options that ProTools does not have.
Tap DJ App
The Tap DJ App for the iPad enables you to become your own DJ. You will be able to mix sound files (mp3) and create your own mashup and medleys. This app is not free but it is not very expensive either. This app will prepare the user for professional DJ mixing.
Other?
Is there something else you would like to explore? Propose it to Mr. Masaki or Mr. Lawi. We are pretty open to just about anything.
Music Technologies:
IF you page is asking for a password try "Bankai"
Pedals (Login: MPIPedals Password: MPIPedals)
Aaron, Mahina, Kualii
You will be using two different types of pedals with various instruments. The first is the Boss ME-80 Multiple Effects Pedal. This is one of the best effects pedals money can buy and with this pedal, you can pretty much imitate just about any effects you can hear on the radio. The other pedal is an RC-3 which is a looping pedal which you can learn to use to accompany yourself. Both pedals are used by amateurs and professionals on the streets in live performances and in the studio.
http://mpipedals2017.weebly.com/about.html
Launchpad (Login: MPILaunch Password: MPILaunch)
Milan
The Launchpad is a music technology that combines a number of different technologies into one device. The Launchpad can be used as a musical instrument, a mixing device, and so much more. With programmable buttons, you can theoretically use the device to do just about anything you want including sound sampling (what is used in dubstep and similar types of music) to even leveling and balancing other sounds. This device requires a laptop and addition software (which is free) but if you don't have a laptop, you may have a hard time with this.
howonedoesthelaunchpad.weebly.com
ProTools (Login: MPIProTools Password: MPIProTools)
Nicolette, Zach
ProTools is the "industry standard" for recording any type of sound. The program can be used for professional quality sound editing as well as putting sound to video. You will be using a free version of ProTools called ProTools First. You will need to have a laptop to use ProTools on your own however we do have a computer in the Orchestra Room that has a copy of ProTools you can use.
http://mpiprotools.weebly.com/
Online Launchpad (Login: MPIOLaunch Password: MPIOLaunch)
The Online Launchpad is literally a Launchpad that you can use/play with your computer using your keyboard to simulate the keys on a Launchpad. You can find a link to the site here:
https://agile-spire-1086.herokuapp.com/
This does not require any additional software and can be used on your iPad.
http://mpiolaunch.weebly.com/
Garage Band
Garage band is an app that you get with your iPad. This is a good program that has a number of features that can be used for professional recording however it is not like ProTools. Garage Band however, does have a number of different options that ProTools does not have.
Tap DJ App
The Tap DJ App for the iPad enables you to become your own DJ. You will be able to mix sound files (mp3) and create your own mashup and medleys. This app is not free but it is not very expensive either. This app will prepare the user for professional DJ mixing.
Other?
Is there something else you would like to explore? Propose it to Mr. Masaki or Mr. Lawi. We are pretty open to just about anything.
Your Assignment
Part 1: Jan 25-Feb 15
Create an online tutorial of your Music Technology. This tutorial should be complete enough that someone new to your technology can follow it as a guide and know what is going on. You will be given a Weebly page for each technology. Be sure to use pictures and clear, concise explanations to explain what your Technology is, what it does, and how it works.
On February 15, all groups will do a final sharing. You must have the following completed:
Every Friday starting from Feb 3, all groups will be required to talk about their project and their progress. Try to have at least one new thing to say every week. You will be doing these "sharings" as a discussion grade (which implies that every member of the group should speak). Also, on these days, your websites must have some type of updated content. I will not specify what that is but the website must have something new for me to view. On Feb. 10, on top of updated content, there will be a question/answer section added to your discussion. This does NOT count toward your time.
Part 2: Feb 17-March 31
Create a project within your technology for 7th grade middle school students (1-3 students). Your project must be recording based meaning you must be using live, recorded sound that a student will makes somewhere in your project. Recorded sound can be used as part of the project however, the overall goal of the project is to show how students can incorporate their own sound through different technologies.
The project should take about 2 weeks to complete. At the end of the project, there should be some type of assessment in the form of a rubric for a project and/or quiz.
You must also have a completed, sample project for your students to view so they can see what their end goal is.
The grading for this project is located at the bottom of the page.
Part 3: Implementation, Evaluation, and ReDesign
Different groups will go through your projects and we will be evaluating and reworking what you have done. We will do this in three phases which span the dates below:
April 5-17
Pedals- Kai, Makua, Bobby, Nicolette, Zach
Online Launchpad- Kualii, Milan,
Launchpad-
Pro Tools- Mahina, Aaron
April 19- May 3
Pedals- Milan,
Online Launchpad- Mahina, Aaron, Nicolette, Zach
Launchpad- Kualii, Kai, Makua, Bobby,
Pro Tools-
May 5-17
Pedals-
Online Launchpad-
Launchpad- Zach
Pro Tools- Kualii, Kai, Makua, Bobby, Milan
Independent Project: Aaron, Nicolette, Mahina
(All students must do every technology unless you have talked to Mr. Masaki about doing something different.)
On the last day of each phase (April 17, May 3, and May 17), you must have the following accomplished (Specific Grading Requirements are at the bottom of the page):
1) The project that was setup for you on the website. If you were not able to complete the project, you will need to write up why you we not able to complete the project and what did you complete instead. If the fault goes to the website being unclear or incomplete, points will be deducted from the owners of the website. If it was because you had poor time management or procrastinated, points will be deducted from your grade.
2) A evaluation on the website talking about the following:
-Was the website easy to follow? Why/Why not?
-Did the website contain enough information and examples for you to finish your project?
-Did you think the project was a good demonstration of the technology? Why?
-What are three strong points about the website?
-What would you improve about the website?
-Other suggestions/comments?
3) On the last day of each phase, when you receive comments about your website, please take time to fix your website so your group does not loose points in the following round.
On the last day of class, we will have an evaluation party.
4) On May 29 Mr. Masaki will grade all the websites and give you a final project grade.
Part 1: Jan 25-Feb 15
Create an online tutorial of your Music Technology. This tutorial should be complete enough that someone new to your technology can follow it as a guide and know what is going on. You will be given a Weebly page for each technology. Be sure to use pictures and clear, concise explanations to explain what your Technology is, what it does, and how it works.
On February 15, all groups will do a final sharing. You must have the following completed:
- A webpage with the following pages: Introduction to your group and your technology, a brief history on your technology, Labelled Diagram of your technology, step by step directions on how to setup/use your technology, and a blank page that will contain your future project (due two weeks later). This is the MINIMUM your website should have. Other pages or things that you think would help can be added. You will be graded on having these pages and making sure they are complete and easy to understand.
- When creating pages, be sure you cover any vocabulary that people may not know. Terms like looping, overdub, levels, layers, etc. are not exactly common terms to everyone. Think about these things as you write your material for your pages. If there are "technical" words that are not well defined and this makes your website harder to understand you will lose points. For additional grading requirements for the webpage, scroll down to the end of this page.
- All groups will give a presentation showing their webpage and the different parts of the webpage. Each group member must speak at some point for a discussion grade. There is no time limit for this presentation however anything less than 3 min and more than 12 min will automatically receive a grade of 50%.
- In addition to your presentation, each group must include a live demonstration of your technology. This demonstration does not count toward your presentation time. The demonstration should show 3-5 different things that your technology can do. There is not time limit for your demonstration however anything longer than 15min might get cut short by your teacher since we have other groups to listen to.
- Pretend your website is a guide for an absolute beginner. Mr. Lawi, Mr. Lim, Mr. Nii, and Mr. Masaki will go through each site and test to see how complete your material and explanations are. We will give grades according to completeness, how easy your site is to follow, grammar, spelling, and anything else you might want to add.
Every Friday starting from Feb 3, all groups will be required to talk about their project and their progress. Try to have at least one new thing to say every week. You will be doing these "sharings" as a discussion grade (which implies that every member of the group should speak). Also, on these days, your websites must have some type of updated content. I will not specify what that is but the website must have something new for me to view. On Feb. 10, on top of updated content, there will be a question/answer section added to your discussion. This does NOT count toward your time.
Part 2: Feb 17-March 31
Create a project within your technology for 7th grade middle school students (1-3 students). Your project must be recording based meaning you must be using live, recorded sound that a student will makes somewhere in your project. Recorded sound can be used as part of the project however, the overall goal of the project is to show how students can incorporate their own sound through different technologies.
The project should take about 2 weeks to complete. At the end of the project, there should be some type of assessment in the form of a rubric for a project and/or quiz.
You must also have a completed, sample project for your students to view so they can see what their end goal is.
The grading for this project is located at the bottom of the page.
Part 3: Implementation, Evaluation, and ReDesign
Different groups will go through your projects and we will be evaluating and reworking what you have done. We will do this in three phases which span the dates below:
April 5-17
Pedals- Kai, Makua, Bobby, Nicolette, Zach
Online Launchpad- Kualii, Milan,
Launchpad-
Pro Tools- Mahina, Aaron
April 19- May 3
Pedals- Milan,
Online Launchpad- Mahina, Aaron, Nicolette, Zach
Launchpad- Kualii, Kai, Makua, Bobby,
Pro Tools-
May 5-17
Pedals-
Online Launchpad-
Launchpad- Zach
Pro Tools- Kualii, Kai, Makua, Bobby, Milan
Independent Project: Aaron, Nicolette, Mahina
(All students must do every technology unless you have talked to Mr. Masaki about doing something different.)
On the last day of each phase (April 17, May 3, and May 17), you must have the following accomplished (Specific Grading Requirements are at the bottom of the page):
1) The project that was setup for you on the website. If you were not able to complete the project, you will need to write up why you we not able to complete the project and what did you complete instead. If the fault goes to the website being unclear or incomplete, points will be deducted from the owners of the website. If it was because you had poor time management or procrastinated, points will be deducted from your grade.
2) A evaluation on the website talking about the following:
-Was the website easy to follow? Why/Why not?
-Did the website contain enough information and examples for you to finish your project?
-Did you think the project was a good demonstration of the technology? Why?
-What are three strong points about the website?
-What would you improve about the website?
-Other suggestions/comments?
3) On the last day of each phase, when you receive comments about your website, please take time to fix your website so your group does not loose points in the following round.
On the last day of class, we will have an evaluation party.
4) On May 29 Mr. Masaki will grade all the websites and give you a final project grade.
Part 1: Website Grading Requirements
Your webpage must have the following pages/content:
-Introduction to yourself/group
-Introduction to your project (technology)
-A brief history on your technology
-A brief page on how to use your technology/how your technology works
-A clearly labeled blank page for your future project
-Other pertinent pages (optional)
Each page is worth 20pts. Not having a page is VERY bad for your grade.
The content in each page will also be graded on grammar, spelling, and ease of understanding. Spelling and grammar will be -2pts each. Ease of understanding will be penalized depending on how difficult it is to understand your content.
Each page much have at least 1 picture that is pertinent to the content. Failure to have a picture on a page that relates to your content will be -5pts.
The introduction to yourself/group must contain a short bio of each member of the group AND a picture. Failure to have the bio AND picture will result in a penalty of -15pts.
At some point, you must have a labelled diagram of your technology. Failure to have this diagram will result in a penalty of -20pts.
At some point in your webpage, you must have a video showing your technology in some way. No video anywhere would be -10 pts.
Additional/pertinent pages could be worth extra credit. Well done pages can give you a +10 to your grade however you will NOT be allowed to receive a grade that is over 100% for this extra content, unless Mr. Masaki feels you have gone well above and beyond what the "normal" expectation for this project was.
-Introduction to yourself/group
-Introduction to your project (technology)
-A brief history on your technology
-A brief page on how to use your technology/how your technology works
-A clearly labeled blank page for your future project
-Other pertinent pages (optional)
Each page is worth 20pts. Not having a page is VERY bad for your grade.
The content in each page will also be graded on grammar, spelling, and ease of understanding. Spelling and grammar will be -2pts each. Ease of understanding will be penalized depending on how difficult it is to understand your content.
Each page much have at least 1 picture that is pertinent to the content. Failure to have a picture on a page that relates to your content will be -5pts.
The introduction to yourself/group must contain a short bio of each member of the group AND a picture. Failure to have the bio AND picture will result in a penalty of -15pts.
At some point, you must have a labelled diagram of your technology. Failure to have this diagram will result in a penalty of -20pts.
At some point in your webpage, you must have a video showing your technology in some way. No video anywhere would be -10 pts.
Additional/pertinent pages could be worth extra credit. Well done pages can give you a +10 to your grade however you will NOT be allowed to receive a grade that is over 100% for this extra content, unless Mr. Masaki feels you have gone well above and beyond what the "normal" expectation for this project was.
Part 2: Student Project Grading Requirements
1) You have a webpage that supports your project with proper spelling, grammar, pictures, video, etc. 20pts.
2) Within your webpage, you have an individual page dedicated to the project itself. 10pts.
3) Your project has easy to understand, step by step instructions that a 7th grader (or small group of 7th graders (1-3 students)) could follow. 40pts.
-Your project should start off with the goal/overview for the whole assignment. 10pts.
-It should then go into step by step instruction on what the student will do to to go through the assignment. This can be broken down into any small, "digestible chunks" you want. I would suggest you break things up by day but it is really up to you. The entire project should take about 5-6 days. 10pts.
-At some point, you will need to include a sample project (that you have created) so the students will be able to see what a completed sample project looks like. 10pts.
-At the end of the project, you must have some type of grading system/rubric/checklist for your students to follow so they know they did the project correctly and what the important parts of the project are. 10pts.
-Your page must have at least 2 pictures that are either labelled or captioned to help your students. Failure to have this will result in -20pts.
4) When your students finish their project, you must create a sample project page within your page, and post their project to your website. 20pts.
-Projects must be organized by year.
-You will need to have the students name and grade next to the project.
5) The Mr. Masaki/Lawi will evaluate your project after you are done with it. He will give you a grade out of 0-10 and this grade will be added to your project. 10pts.
-Any group that does not get a 9 or 10 in this section, can go and correct their websites and projects to make up 50% of the points they missed.
-We would like this to be as complete as possible to make part 3 of this project as easy to complete and understand.
2) Within your webpage, you have an individual page dedicated to the project itself. 10pts.
3) Your project has easy to understand, step by step instructions that a 7th grader (or small group of 7th graders (1-3 students)) could follow. 40pts.
-Your project should start off with the goal/overview for the whole assignment. 10pts.
-It should then go into step by step instruction on what the student will do to to go through the assignment. This can be broken down into any small, "digestible chunks" you want. I would suggest you break things up by day but it is really up to you. The entire project should take about 5-6 days. 10pts.
-At some point, you will need to include a sample project (that you have created) so the students will be able to see what a completed sample project looks like. 10pts.
-At the end of the project, you must have some type of grading system/rubric/checklist for your students to follow so they know they did the project correctly and what the important parts of the project are. 10pts.
-Your page must have at least 2 pictures that are either labelled or captioned to help your students. Failure to have this will result in -20pts.
4) When your students finish their project, you must create a sample project page within your page, and post their project to your website. 20pts.
-Projects must be organized by year.
-You will need to have the students name and grade next to the project.
5) The Mr. Masaki/Lawi will evaluate your project after you are done with it. He will give you a grade out of 0-10 and this grade will be added to your project. 10pts.
-Any group that does not get a 9 or 10 in this section, can go and correct their websites and projects to make up 50% of the points they missed.
-We would like this to be as complete as possible to make part 3 of this project as easy to complete and understand.
Part 3: Implementation, Evaluation, and ReDesign Grading Requirements
On April 17, May 3, and May 17 you must complete an evaluation on the project you worked on. This evaluation must contain the following information and/or answer the following questions.... (You may copy and past these questions in your evaluation or you may write it in essay form.)
1) Was the page with the directions appealing to look at and interesting enough to make you want to learn about the given project? What specifically did you find useful or not useful? What specifically made the page design easy or hard to follow? Any suggestions for improvement?
2) Was the instructions for the project easy to follow without any assistance from the group that made it? If not, what was difficult to understand and what would you change?
3) Were you able to complete the project on time or in a timely manner? Did you feel that the timeline given to you was adequate or does it need to be modified? If it needs any changes, what would you change?
4) Did you feel that the project was a good representation of the technology? How so? Would you have done anything differently?
Please be sure you have an evaluation on the website talking about the following:
-Was the website easy to follow? Why/Why not?
-Did the website contain enough information and examples for you to finish your project?
-Did you think the project was a good demonstration of the technology? Why?
-What are three strong points about the website?
-What would you improve about the website?
-Other suggestions/comments?
To the owners of the website, on the last day of each phase, when you receive comments about your website, please take time to fix your website so your group does not loose points in the following round.
On the last day of class, we will have an evaluation party.
On May 29 Mr. Masaki will grade all the websites and give you a final project grade.
1) Was the page with the directions appealing to look at and interesting enough to make you want to learn about the given project? What specifically did you find useful or not useful? What specifically made the page design easy or hard to follow? Any suggestions for improvement?
2) Was the instructions for the project easy to follow without any assistance from the group that made it? If not, what was difficult to understand and what would you change?
3) Were you able to complete the project on time or in a timely manner? Did you feel that the timeline given to you was adequate or does it need to be modified? If it needs any changes, what would you change?
4) Did you feel that the project was a good representation of the technology? How so? Would you have done anything differently?
Please be sure you have an evaluation on the website talking about the following:
-Was the website easy to follow? Why/Why not?
-Did the website contain enough information and examples for you to finish your project?
-Did you think the project was a good demonstration of the technology? Why?
-What are three strong points about the website?
-What would you improve about the website?
-Other suggestions/comments?
To the owners of the website, on the last day of each phase, when you receive comments about your website, please take time to fix your website so your group does not loose points in the following round.
On the last day of class, we will have an evaluation party.
On May 29 Mr. Masaki will grade all the websites and give you a final project grade.