VISUAL ART EXHIBITION

Ashley DeWitt and John Gronert began using Song Maker from Chrome Music Lab to teach Music through Music Composition. Their goal is to teach the basic musical elements of songwriting so that students can independently create their own compositions or make arrangements of their favorite songs.

Students learn to create music from the ground up. They start with a musical groove using percussion instruments. Bass lines are added to set up logical chord progressions to enhance the music. Students learn to create melodies using major scales and pentatonic scales. They learn to construct melodies by step, skip, cell, row, sequence, inversion, retrograde and retrograde inversion. Harmonic accompaniments are developed to add excitement to the music. Here are some samples of their work.