CB 2021 Modules

General Info

These Modules are meants as a scaffold for your Coded Beats sessions. They provide learning content, activities, and learning goals. Use them as a jumping off point for running your sessions. The basic organization for sessions that these modules use are:

Community Building Warm-Up
Learning Content
Puzzle Activity
Sharing Time

The goal of Sharing Time is to try to normalize working in TunePad outside of the weekly sessions and to provide exciting creative activities using the content from that week. The creative activities are not meant to be homework, but more of a way for interested students to stay involved.

Feel free to riff on these activities and to put your own creative spin on them!

Module 0: Orientation

Discuss goals of program
Begin getting to know participants

Module 1: Learning with Premade Loops

Introduction to TunePad API and interface

Module 2: Drum Programming I: Notes

Introduction to playNote and Python variables

Module 3: Drum Programming II: Beats

Introduction to counting beats and coding simple rhythms

Module 4: Drum Programming III: Putting it Together

Introduction to Jam Sessions interface
Review of variables, playNote, and beats

Module 5: Beat Making I: Using Ableton

Introduce basic drum pattern construction
Introduce the Ableton visual sequencer

Module 6: Beat Making II: Visual to Code

Introduce Python lists
Build a basic one-bar beat in TunePad

Module 7: Beat Making III: Loops and Hi-Hat Patterns

Introduce for-loops in Python
Build an intermediate hi-hat pattern in TunePad

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