This key concept video from our Music Production 1 curriculum teaches producers to break down sounds into high, low, and mid categories.
Creative Curricula for the 21st Century:
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10-Week Mini Course
Students analyze the component parts of the music they love, building a foundational approach to composition and production that is centered on their authentic passion and interest.
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The Official Curriculum for Soundtrap (Mac, PC, Chromebook)
Accompanying Teacher’s Handbook
CTE Introductory Course
CTE and California Arts Standards-Aligned
UC A-G Credit-Approved
Year-Long Curriculum
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Ableton Live (Mac and PC) available for free.
Accompanying Teacher’s Handbook
CTE Concentrator Course
CTE and California Arts Standards-Aligned
UC A-G Credit-Approved
Year-Long Curriculum
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CTE Capstone Course
Career Pathway Development
Ableton Live, Logic, FL Studio, Pro Tools, or any other Digital Audio Workstation
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A first of its kind K-12 curriculum that sheds light on the confusing and often fraught business side of music.
Music Appreciation
This curriculum invites students to analyze the music they enjoy, and to discover connections between their favorite artists and wider cultural and social forces.
Students may enter this course with little knowledge of modern music, but they will gain an understanding of the musical world around them. This course entices students to then contribute to their community by making music of their own!
Grades: 6-12
Cost: $750/year
This video covers the language musicians use to describe the melodic and harmonic elements of music.
Music Production 1
This innovative curriculum breaks down the key concepts of music production. We provide instructional demonstrations for using the digital audio workstation, Soundtrap (Mac, PC, Chromebook), along with engaging assignments, exercises, games, and more so teachers can seamlessly guide students in applying the theory.
Young Producers Group is the official Soundtrap curriculum partner!
CTE Introductory Course
Grades: 4-12
Cost: $2,000/year (includes Music Appreciation)
This video describes how low, mid, and high sounds come together as layers to create a larger piece of music.
Music Production 2
In this level, we show students how to use Ableton Live (Mac and PC), an industry-standard digital audio workstation used by music professionals in studios and on stages around the world. Through the ‘Ableton in the Classroom’ initiative, schools can receive this professional software for free! Building on the key concepts of music production covered in the previous level, this curriculum leads students through substantial projects covering high-level principles like sampling and synthesizers.
CTE Concentrator Course
Grades: 7-12
Cost: $2,000/year (Music Production 1 and 2 Bundle: $3000/year)
This video explains the concept of Sampling in a Key Concept video for that unit.
Advanced Music Technology & Business
This curriculum presents interviews with GRAMMY-winners and multi-platinum professionals where they discuss how they’ve built sustainable careers implementing the skills students learned during Music Production 1 and 2. Students also hear from leading behind-the-scenes professionals about copyright, contracts, and other industry essentials. All of this culminates in a capstone project where students create and release an album, their industry debut!
CTE Capstone Course
Grades: 11-12
Cost: $3,000/year
CTE Curriculum Pathway Bundle (MA, MP1, MP2, AMT&B): $5000/year
A sneak peak of the incredible creatives and technical professionals in this Capstone curriculum.
Music Industry
A first of its kind K-12 curriculum that sheds light on the confusing and often fraught business side of music. Concepts like copyright, contracts, royalties, fees, what an artist’s team should look like, etc. are hardly discussed at the college level, much less in high-school.
Students that complete this curriculum will have the practical knowledge they need to start building a sustainable career and exploit their intellectual property, without getting exploited themselves!
Grades: 6-12
Cost: $1000/year
Music manager Hannah Hicks (DJ Dahi, Grimes, Michael Uzowuru, Take A Daytrip, etc.) breaks down the fundamentals of copyright.