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Teaching Electronic Music In Schools?
I’ve played guitar for about 30 years, former gigging musician. Over the past 5 years, I’ve seen electronic music production push guitar nearly out of my life completely. I’ve also become aware of the decreasing popularity of guitar among kids/teens in general, as well as it’s decreased use in popular music. I’ll assume the same is true for most traditional instruments with no signs if this trend reversing anytime soon.
This leaves me wondering if we’ll see electronic music instruction force its way into schools as an alternative option along with traditional musical instrument instruction? Instead of sax lessons, perhaps electronic music instruction instead? One on one, and/or group classes?
Could “Electronic Music Teacher” be a musical teaching field worth pursuing and specializing in? Or will this increasingly popular music genre never make its way into our childtens schools until college?
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I teach in a school (Not a music teacher) and actually it was the Music Tech course which was discontinued due to dwindling numbers - the more 'traditional' lessons are still being offered. From what I gather from my students is that Music tech is something they tend to do outside of school - it's literally a bit too cool for school
On a positive note I still come across plenty of guitar players and musicians, although perhaps less than I recall from my own school days. I sometimes cover music lessons and they are often working on compositions - with Reason and Sibelius the software of choice on PCs. The more traditional based players do seem slower to adopt platforms such as iOS - I'm trying to do my bit to show them the possibilities available on the iPad... although I'm probably meant to be teaching them Psychology
@bedheadproducer : We were just discussing this
Greta Van fleet seems to be a big deal right now. They are a Zeppelin clone. Maybe that will bring guitar back.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJg4OJxp-co
There is a very popular electronic music course in a local Title I (translation: very poor) high school.
Or kill it all together😧
That's a bit like wearing some straw boaters and sleeve garters while recreating some ragtime.
That reminds me that I read a recent Ron Wood quote just a couple of days ago:
"We're in our seventies, but we're rocking like forty year olds"
There was a time when that statement would have sounded absolutely absurd, but then I ruefully remembered that few twenty year olds today give a fuck about rocking at all!
They can’t kill it. Anytime a guitar band gets popular it’s good for the guitar community.
Taking an iPad to school is standard fare here in Oz and everyone gets some tuition in GarageBand. I leverage this in my private studio by including music production techniques in my lessons. It’s something that differentiates me from the other teachers.
Back in 2001/2002 my high school had an electronic music elective. It was pretty cool. One of the resident music teachers taught it. I’ve no idea if it’s still offered- but we got to track midi keyboards with Cubase. I want to say the keyboards were either Korg M1s or some Alesis type. There was a mixed bag of equipment I suspect most of it donated. It was a cool class.
When I was a student in high school I taught an electronic music course, deal was I got to skip physical education (sports).
At the end of the year the school gave me a pa mixer and speakers as a reward, those speakers were ridiculously loud and I set them up in my bedroom. Turned up about 50% and you could hear them from the end of the street.
Fun times
I taught other students how to make drum and bass in buzz tracker and fruity loops 2 😂
One of my teachers would tell me all about her weekends and all the raves went to 😁😆
I think that any zepplin clone that writes good songs will be as successful as the good songs they write. So far there have been a few, like Kingdom Come but they only wrote one or two great songs and then faded away. I venture to say that the future of music could very well be that bands of the 60s , 70s and 80s will become genres themselves. Think about it...as a fan, of lets say ACDC or journey, or pink floyd, I don't think we really care who makes killer music in the vein or if the music sounds like those bands, but it does have to be AS good or BETTER as the bands we love. If a group of new young strangers churned out an album that sound exactly like or very close to Van Halen, say, on their first record, I would enjoy it...IF IT SOUNDED GREAT with GREAT SONGS at least as good as the original. If they could pull that off, I'm totally game. But the bar has already been set and unfortunately most of the bands I love are no longer living up to the bar they themselves set and are churning out derivative B versions of their greatest hits, so, move over rover, let the new kids take over! Unless of you course you can stay creative and relevant into your 80s, then I could care less how old they are and I'm willing to accept new kids who don't reinvent the wheel and utilze the styles already out there, so long as they are first rate...not second rate. I don't wand a less excellent watered down version...I want excellence, no matter what style is chosen...so there should definitely be standards..
Guitars in the classroom are not a thing of the past just yet. Thinking of joining as a volunteer myself with Guitars Not Guns: http://guitarsnotguns.org/
Video featuring the DC chapter from this past October:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/332028424-video
I am not sure if electronic music courses would overtake learning an instrument, but I'd imagine the curriculum for such a course would be pretty flexible. There are a couple of apps I'd use. Once the audio tracks IAP is added and the app made universal, I'd personally use Nanostudio 2 as my main teaching environment of choice. Things that could be taught within NS2...
Basics of using a piano roll to sequence melodies, harmonies, etc, and how to select preset patches to instantly dial in a sound in Obsidian and Slate. Also the basics of adjusting the volume in a mixer.
Once the student understands the sequencer and dialing in a sound, then extensive music theory from the basics of scales and chords and compound rhythms to Classical counterpoint, non-traditional time signatures, etc.
Basic music notation and how it translates to what one does in the piano roll sequencer.
Arnold Schoenberg, tone rows, and how to craft such compositions.
Once all of the traditional tonal lessons are out of the way, then it'd be time to move on from presets and into basic and intermediate synthesis (including how to use a mod matrix), how to build your own sample-based instruments, and how to use automation to achieve the effects desired.
Then it'll be time for the exciting stuff. Pierre Henry, Musique concrete/found sounds and how plugins such as EQ, waveshaping, etc can be used to mold the sounds on the sonic canvas. Explaining that music can go beyond 12 tones and beyond set rhythmic intervals.
Spatialisation/Ambient and how a combination of reverb/delay, EQ, and panning can help push a sound far back or bring it up close, automation to move the sound about, etc.
Xenakis, Cage, Stockhausen, and aleotoric/generative/stochastic music.
Advanced synthesis using apps such as Sunvox, Model 15, iVCS3, etc. (Well I would use Caustic with its incredible modular synth.)
Crafting an installation piece (although for classroom purposes, each student piece would be 20-30 minutes in length).
Music production (although this would probably be a separate course.)
All of this would be spaced out proper over the course of 2-3 semesters. For instance, one wouldn't spend an hour-long period of time teaching how to use a piano roll. It would integrate well into starting the first lesson of basic music theory. While music production wouldn't be a main focus of this particular type of course, one could use the lessons learned in musique concrete, spatialisation, etc as a springboard into the start of basic music production. At least I'd consider it a more intuitive and creative way to segue into music production as I consider music production nothing more than choosing the right sounds that fit together, some spatialisation, and maybe a little extra bracketing from your EQ).