Production Through Performance

Put the power of music creation directly in the hands of your students with this flexible piano, music tech, and modern band curriculum! Highly engaging, this online course teaches basic piano skills and music theory through the playing, writing, and recording of popular music within the Soundtrap DAW. Students learn to play and record drum grooves, chord progressions, bass lines, and melodies using the MIDI keyboard as their primary instrument. Powered by Shedthemusic's suite of learning apps, skill acquisition and ear training become engaging through finger-drumming challenges, interactive ear-training quizzes, structured skill-building modules, and creative sandboxes.

Placing creativity at the forefront, this course uses scaffolded songwriting prompts that provide opportunities for group collaboration in student bands. Highly adaptable, you can use it as a standalone piano class where students learn to play covers via lead sheets; a music tech class where students compose and record original songs; a primer for modern band where students master the roles of the rhythm section; or as a supplement to traditional band, choir, or orchestra, allowing students to write and record the music they listen to daily.

The curriculum is hosted on the Shedthemusic platform, providing classroom-facing lesson videos, student-facing instructions, and comprehensive video and print lesson plans that make implementation seamless.