Jason, a music teacher at my school has started using our iPads in his music lessons.
I popped in to have a look and I have to say it looked excellent. I wish I could have done this when I was at school. The kids really enjoyed it and could really see the value in using iPads in Music lessons.
When I spoke to a couple of students they told me that the iPad helped to develop their understanding of a rhythm.
Jason’s objectives for the lesson were:
- To understand how a step sequencer works – to understand how the screen is arranged in beats and how those beats are divided up
- To understand rhythm written in traditional notation – to prove understanding by reproducing that rhythm on the step sequencer
- To create own rhythm from scratch and to write it using traditional music notation