<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:02 AM, deeplfo <<a href="mailto:deeplfo@yahoo.com">deeplfo@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I may have mentioned this in a previous post, but I am slated to teach a kids after school program class on "making music with your computer". Since schools are chuck full of Macs, I am going to base the class around GarageBand. Kids will be from grades 3 to 6, one hour a week, for about 9 weeks. I have some good ideas for the class material. Basically I want the kids to be able to get a nice little introduction to music technology, with some tangible end results, notably creating and sharing some music.<br></div><div><br></div><div>As you lot are a good wise bunch here, I thought I'd ask to see if anyone has ever done anything like this, to get some tips and pointers. Or chime in if you have any thoughts or suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Mohsen</div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>One thing that might be cool to get them going in the beginning - make some basic elements of tracks, drum loops, baselines etc... and let groups picks some of these that they can then arrange into a track. That way they can make something right away that will sound good and it will be fun for them. I think initially fun is more important that straight learning. </div><div><br></div><div>Also a more advanced thing (common in many forums) is give them all the same bits of noisy sounds, like environment sounds maybe, and have them build a track from that.</div><div><br></div><div>Though depends on how old they are :) you may want to have the whole 9 weeks to work their way up to 1 track (that they can take home on a shinny cd, wait what's a cd?)</div></body></html>