Electronic Music Educator Workshop

Yoon Soo Lim | The Hill School PA

The Electronic Music Educator Workshop explores non-performance-based music production using the new Electronic Music Elements curriculum. Perfect for late elementary, middle, and high school production, tech, and music appreciation classes, this course offers students the opportunity to create their own drum patterns, chord parts, bass lines, and melodies while thinking like a DJ. Students will learn to address the audience and manipulate energy, mood, power, and identity over time. These core skills will then be applied in projects such as radio commercials, podcasting, songwriting, and video game compositions, connecting students' work to real-world applications.

The Electronic Music Educator Workshop is hosted through Shedthemusic’s professional development platform. Users will create, share, and comment on prompts in a user-friendly format similar to a social media group.

    • Connect with like-minded teachers: Share projects, reflections, and practice giving meaningful feedback through asynchronous projects.

    • Learn and create with Soundtrap tools: Use non-performance-based music production tools like the drum sequencer, chord triggers, and piano roll to write drum grooves, chord parts, bass lines, and melodies.

    • Think like a DJ: Listen critically to your favorite tracks and use them as a reference to elevate your music.

    • Explore ways to implement a music production class: at the late elementary, middle, and high school level. 

    • Discover new methods on how to facilitate student creativity, develop tech troubleshooting skills, promote student work, and engage students of all ability levels and ages. 

    • Use the resources: Search through the video and print lesson plans, guides, and tutorials in the teacher portal.  Try the lesson and studio pages with demonstration videos, step-by-step tutorials, and the student facing custom Soundtrap overlay with short versions of step videos, checklists, and password protected enrichment pages.

    • Bring in the Real World: Apply core skills to work on cross-curricular projects such as video game composition and radio commercials.

    • 2 weeks of free professional development: Learn how to create music with non-performance tools in Soundtrap using the Electronic Music Elements curriculum.

    • 2-week access to the Electronic Music Elements curriculum.

    • Access to the monthly Elements Meetup.