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Official Launch Date - Valentine's 2024 Free
It is with absolute great pleasure that Mr Jim Yarnell and myself launch the IB Diploma Programme InThinking page for MUSIC. This has been around two and a half years in the making and we are so thankful...
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Creating a Movie Trailer
This has proven to be a very popular activity, especially for the music tech student. It would be recommended to cover the "leitmotif" lesson before beginning this unit. Click HERE to be re-directed to...
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Children's Audio Storybook
This exercise is intended to develop an understanding of the audio recording side of music sequencing software. Further, students are to develop an understanding of developing a motif within a storyline....
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Children's Narrative Project
The project could be an interesting prelude to building skills for various collaborative projects, including the CMM. It focuses on the collaboration between high school and elementary school students....
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The Leitmotif and Film
This could be a good starting point for anyone interested in exploring film music, Students begin to investigate the idea of a leitmotif and how it can be developed throughout a story. 1. What is a...
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The Dorian Mode
This lesson could be a good start for students who are not so familiar with music technology. Likewise, this could be a useful tool for the "music techie" who might not be all too familiar with the Western...
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Quantizing
Quite often while developing a piece of music, one finds that the beats are not lining up correctly. This is especially true with live recorded tracks. Quantizing allows one to "fix" the beats so that...
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Saturation
Saturation is a subtle form of distortion used to add character and depth to audio tracks. It originated from analogue recordings when sound engineers discovered that when pushed too hard, audio tracks...
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Reverb
According to Music Gateways, "Reverb is the persistence of sound after a sound is produced. Reverb is created when a sound or signal is reflected off of a surface causing numerous reflections to build...
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Compression
Image source:Peter Palmer via Unsplash The compression function is another "go-to" plug-in tool that should be a fundamental part of a student's music production work. It can make an amateur-sounding...