Music - Passion Projects

Passion Project Music: Years 7 and 8 Task: Research and design a brand new instrument Research and Planning: Over the last term you have already learnt about a range of instruments and their playing techniques. What is your favourite instrument if you have one? Can you play it or do you play another instrument? If you could invent an instrument what would it look like? What would it be made out of? How would you play it and what type of sound would it make? Can it play a melody? Chords? Or is it percussive?

Production: Design your instrument first on paper. You can make this as detailed and colourful as you would like it to be!

Then comes the really fun part…bringing your instrument to life! What materials have you got access to that you can make it out of? When it is complete – you can email a video or an audio demonstration of it or if you don’t feel comfortable doing that then take pictures of it and write a brief explanation of how you play it and how it sounds!

Stuck for ideas?

Felt Magnet: https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make The X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFfBrCyHfWs

Passion Project Music: Years 9 and 10 Task: Write a song or piece of music in a genre of your choice for project “Rock The Lockdown #2” Research and Planning: As both Music and Music Tech students, you have been studying composition for quite some time, be it on Logic, Sibelius, creating music and lyrics live through your instruments and voices, or rapping to an already existing beat. Have a listen to some of your favourite artists’ music and research their lyrics. Then have a think about what you would like to say. The project is “Rock The Lockdown”, so you can interpret this however you want to, do you want to talk about how it feels to be isolated? What have you been doing for fun? What are you looking forward to the most when lockdown is over? For some basic music theory tips on song writing you can check out Mylene’s Music Klass on youtube (link below).

Production: This is really up to you. You can perform this on an instrument and/or sing and email a video performance of it, you may want to make a track on Logic (free version available now for 90 days!) or a sequencer of your choice (such as BandLab) and email the audio in, you could just send in some lyrics or perhaps you want to record yourself rapping over a beat that already exists!

Free Logic X: https://www.apple.com/logic-pro/

BandLab: https://www.bandlab.com/

Mylene’s Music Klass: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQh2wgJ5tOrixYBn6jFXsXQ/videos