Remixing Rights

Music & Computers,

Grade 10, AMU20

Unit Overview

What will students learn?

How will students demonstrate their learning?

The Instructional Trajectory

Remixing Rights

Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

Unit Overview
Summary
This unit combines students understanding of popular music with their practice of technology. Students will
learn about various ways to remix various songs, including drumbeats and bass patterns, whilst incorporating an
aspect of technique through their approach. By the end of the unit plan, students are expected to demonstrate their
remix to illustrate their knowledge and understanding of technological competence, within the contexts of arranging
music.

What will students learn?

Enduring Understanding
Remixing can be fun and productive.

Overall Expectations
A2. The Elements of Music: apply elements of music when performing notated and
improvised music and composing and/or arranging music
A3. Techniques and Technologies: use a variety of techniques and technological tools
when performing music and composing and/or arranging music
B2. Music and Society: demonstrate an understanding of how traditional, commercial,
and art music reflect the society in which they were created and how they have
affected communities and cultures
C1. Theory and Terminology: demonstrate an understanding of music theory with
respect to concepts of notation and the elements and other components of music, and use
appropriate terminology relating to them

Key Questions
How can a better understanding of theory and technique improve technological
practice?
How does remixing practice further enhance music arranging skills?

Remixing Rights

Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

How will students demonstrate

their learning?

Assessment of Learning
Exit Cards
Bass Creation
Drums Creation
Ultrabeat

Assessment for Learning

During the unit, students achievement of the identified learning goals is monitored using a
variety of assessment strategies and tools. Teachers use these tools and strategies to inform
the assessment of the process as students progress toward the culminating task.
The assessment for learning provides evidence of the learning and informs practice.
Observational note-taking
Graphic organizers
Self-reflection responses
Peer feedback
Co-constructed criteria

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Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

The Instructional Trajectory

How will assessment and instruction be organized for learning?

What are students expected

to learn? (Week 1)

How will we know

students are learning?
(Week 1)

Lesson 1: Introductions

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

Can students follow linear steps without confusion?

import audio

Can students continually improve on their musical

skills?

finding the tempo

basic editing

Can students find the tempo without too much

difficulty?

Lesson 2: Finding the Key

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

Can students use their ears to assist them in finding

the key?

find the key of the original track

Can students identify chord roots?

review simple major/minor scales
use a midi keyboard to help us

Do students know their way around a keyboard

fluently?

Lesson 3: Time Stretching

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

how to globally and individually adjust tempo

Can students grasp the concept of tempo and

its permutations?

how to loop tracks

Can students loop a track in various ways?

tool overview including glue and scissors

Can students describe each tool and when

to use them?

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Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

The Instructional Trajectory

How will assessment and instruction be organized
for learning?

What are students expected

to learn? (Week 1)

How will we know

students are learning?
(Week 1)

Lesson 4: Basic Beat

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

Can students successfully import drum samples?

build a basic drum beat using simples

Can students build and loop a simple drum beat?

loop sampled drum beats

Can students apply drum effects tastefully?

how to apply drum effects

Can students grasp the concept of a drum machine?

intro to drum machines

Lesson 5: Ultrabeat

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

use a drum machine in Logic

Can students maneuver around the UI without

much difficulty?

import samples into drum machines/create own

patch

Can students get creative with their own

ultrabeat experimenting?

Can students export their ultrabeat pattern?

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Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

The Instructional Trajectory

How will assessment and instruction be organized for learning?

What are students expected

to learn? (Week 2)

How will we know

students are learning?
(Week 2)

Lesson 6: Signature Loops

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

finding tempo of loops

Can students apply their new knowledge to find the

tempo of loops?

reverse function

Can students successful understand and employ the

reverse function?

intro to creating own loops (with Apple Loop Editor)

Can students create their own loops and save

them as such?

Can students play the repertoire with an end-goal in mind?

Lesson 7: Creating Loops

Checkpoint

We are learning:
the difference between a green and a blue loop

Can students distinguish between an audio and a

midi loop?

intro to channel effects

Can students incorporate channel effects into their

projects?

hip-hop shaker

Can students make and save their own loops using

Apple Loop Editor?

creating and saving own loops

Lesson 8: Bass Part 1

Checkpoint

We are learning the:

difference between patch and pattern

Can students identify the difference between

bass sounds and bass styles?

four different kinds of bass patterns

Can students identify the four various types

of bass styles?

how to record a midi bass pattern

intro to quantization (and take folders)

Can students record their own bass pattern

using their midi keyboard?

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Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

The Instructional Trajectory

How will assessment and instruction be organized for learning?

What are students expected

to learn? (Weeks 2-3)

How will we know

students are learning?
(Week 2-3)

Lesson 9: Bass Part 2

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

quantize musical regions

Can students identify the difference between bass

sounds and bass styles?

four different kinds of bass patches

Can students identify the four various types of bass

patches?

the difference between layering and masking

Can students define layering and masking and

identify when they occur?

record-enable multiple tracks

Can students record multiple tracks with one

take?

Lesson 10: Bass Part 3

Checkpoint

We are learning the:

Can students define clipping and overloading and

identify when they occur?

difference between clipping and overloading

Can students alias and clone tracks?

repeat regions via aliasing and cloning
Can students successfully equalize tracks?
how to properly and tastefully equalize
tracks

Lesson 11: Bass Part 4

Checkpoint

We are learning about:

track warnings

Can students fix their sub-bass warning?

how to create sub-bass effects

continually improve our equalization skills

Can students create their own sub-bass

effects?
Can students improve on their equalization
skills?

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Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

The Instructional Trajectory

How will assessment and instruction be organized for learning?

What are students expected

to learn? (Week 3)

How will we know

students are learning?
(Week 3)

Lesson 12: Bass Part 5

Checkpoint

We are learning:

Can students create their own audio track effects?

how to create audio track effects

how to properly organize our project (including
colour-coding)

Can students properly organize their own project as

per their own liking?
Can students apply buses to their own mixer?

how to apply buses to our audio signal

Lesson 13: Musical Elements

Checkpoint

We are learning the:

Can students identify and create major and minor

chords respectively?

difference between minor and major chords and

how to construct them
about chord progressions
review of major and minor scales within
the context of chord progressions

Can students apply chord progressions to their own

remix?
Can students recall and re-contextualize major and
minor scales?

Lesson 14: Feature Sounds

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

how to apply bass synths to our layers

Can students creatively employ a bass synth

to their instrument layer?

how to apply synth chords to our layers

Can students creatively employ synth

chords to their instrument layer?

how to apply synth patches to our virtual

instruments

Can students creatively employ synth

patches to their virtual instrument?

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Music & Computers, Grade 10, AMU20

The Instructional
Trajectory
How will assessment and

What are students expected

to learn? (Week 3)

How will we know

students are learning?
(Week 3)

Lesson 15: Conclusion

Checkpoint

We are learning to:

Can students demonstrate what theyve learned thus

far?

apply our knowledge gained thus far to a song/remix

of our choosing
employ creative choices to our custom project

Can students enjoy the process as they do their own

remix?