In our recent podcast (see video below), our director of education, Cece Roudabush, walks new teacher Sydney Pratt through the practical process of preparing her classroom to learn music composition with Hyperscore.
In developing her music curriculum, Sydney wondered how to incorporate the music creation standards from the national standards for arts education. “Most of the standards that I’ve applied only revolve around performance,” she notes. “Students never get to create anything, and I didn’t know how to incorporate it. Hyperscore seems like the answer.”
Roudabush begins with a great example of a composition created by a fifth grader using only four notes. “It’s a beautiful example of inverted pedagogy,” she says. Instead of teaching chords and intervals as abstract concepts, Hyperscore lets the student stumble across them while creating music. The student learns the concept more deeply because they discovered it by themself.
Next, Roudabush introduces a handy series of checklists and classroom materials that she has perfected through her years of teaching with Hyperscore and leading professional development trainings for educators who are new to Hyperscore. Watch:
