CB 2020 Modules

Module 0: Music & Code Impacts

• Music impacts on society & personal experiences

• Code in society & personal experiences

Module 1: Rhythm and Code

• Critical listening skills

• Rhythm, tempo, bars (measures)

• Recognition of patterns and repeated patterns

• The understanding of function calls and the role of parameters.

Module 2: Loops and Dynamics

• Use for-loops and boolean logic when creating music in TunePad.

• Critically listen and further analyze various aspects of music.

• Learn about elements involved in various cultural types of music.

• Incorporate dynamics and to take care to think about the instrumentation of musical creations.

Module 3: Song Structure and User-defined Functions

• Critical listening skills as it relates to song structure

• Review & code using loops

• Understand song structure concepts and be able to identify measures.

• Understand syntax for and implement code using user-defined functions

• Participants will begin to compose songs based on their own rhythms.

Module 4: From Rhythm to Composition

• Develop critical listening skills.

• Understand that music is a human-created compositional artifact. Artists make many, many decisions at multiple levels about how to put a song together.

• Create an EarSketch account.

• Write your first EarSketch program

• Import a TunePad beat into EarSketch

Module 5: Composition and mixing

• Gain ( Volume)/ Fade

• Delay/Reverb

• Chorus

• Distortion

• Pan

• Envelopes

Module 6: Composition, functions, and structure

• Apply previously learned skills and concepts to create compositions using python

• Brainstorm methods for teaching CS and music theory concepts in a classroom setting