Composition & Recording project

If there is one thing we are passionate about here at Music Makers Academy, it is when our students get creative and make up their own music.

So we put together a composition project which culminated in a week of recording and filming sessions. We had such a blast and felt so proud of all students who got in front of the camera (and microphone!) and performed their composition. That takes guts!

Students who composed their own piece had the option of picking an animal, character or scene to inspire their piece. They then had to consider how various musical elements might “sound like” the animal, scene or character of their choice. For example. a bird sound might be in the high register (high notes) as opposed to low notes. A grasshopper song might jump around a lot on the piano, etc. Some of the animals, scenes and characters that students picked included cats (yay, we do love cats), fox, mermaid, fairy, platypus, a sunset, Cleopatra …

Other students decided to create an arrangement of a song they like. So over the recording week, we heard a piano cover of Never Gonna Give You Up, of a roller coaster song from the Netherlands, Interstellar, Illusions by Dua Lipa; a harp version of Do-Re-Mi.

Those students who were not as keen to compose/arrange (or did not have the time to do so) performed pieces they had been learning.

Overall, students developed creative skills, deepened their understanding of musical elements and music theory, got the opportunity to perform, learnt how to handle a microphone and conduct a recording session, and had lots of fun filming each other.

Well done to all students!

Wanna listen to what our students created? Head over to this Youtube playlist!