Digital Music Production
Grades 9 – 12 · Mixed-media course
Where students become authors: writing, recording and producing their own music on the tools the industry uses.
The reading-and-writing stage of the Modern Band pathway: after years of playing by ear, students become authors. It is a mixed-media course in songwriting, beat-making, recording, mixing and production. Students work in a digital audio workstation (GarageBand, BandLab or Ableton, depending on your school's setup), combine music with video and visual media, and finish the term with released tracks and a showcase. It suits a music or media-arts class, a specialist program, or an after-school studio.
- Songwriting, beat-making and arrangement
- Recording, mixing and production in a DAW
- Music combined with video and visual media
- Finished tracks and an end-of-term showcase
- Works with your school's existing computers or tablets
- Cadence
- Weekly during the school year or semester
Digital Music Production runs well in these venues:
Junior Jammers
The first stage of the modern-band journey — singing in tune, keeping a beat, and making music together.
Ukulele Program
An in-class ukulele ensemble where students play modern repertoire together — chords, rhythm, solfège, performance.
Guitar Program
The ukulele grows up: students move to guitar and play the songs they hear every day, together.
Modern Band Ensemble
A fifth stream of music education — alongside orchestra, jazz, marching band and chorus — built on the music students actually listen to.
Let's talk about
digital music production.
Fifteen minutes is enough to figure out whether this is the right fit for your venue, your audience, and your calendar.