You don’t need to be a pro at music production or confident with tech to use GarageBand, Soundtrap or Bandlab in creative ways with your middle school students. Inside this beginner-friendly course, you’ll access bite-sized, bingeable videos to help you master these popular music programs for your own classroom.
It’s part of who you are, and what you do. You don’t want to simply deliver information or curriculum… you want to inspire your students! Because there is no greater feeling than seeing them grow their skills, and fall in love with music.
The lesson content you use in your classes is a big part of that. You love guiding your students through engaging creative projects and seeing them achieve success doing something they love.
But finding simple-to-use, up-to-date and relevant lesson ideas that weave into your current curriculum can be seriously time-consuming, and at times – impossible to find.
If you’ve answered YES to any of the above, you’re not alone. Many incredible, highly-capable teachers feel intimidated by technology in their classroom. But the good news is, with the right tools, training, and support, this doesn’t have to be the case…
And most of all, imagine if it was not only easy, but actually enjoyable for you to run these lessons because you had a set of student tutorial videos that can take care of the “tech teaching” for you?
A practical, self-paced online course with step-by-step instructions to teach you how to master the education community’s favorite digital audio workstations. Tap into tips, training, and support to learn the basics and discover resources for 6 full units of work so you can run fun and engaging music production lessons.
Gain ongoing access to 7 beginner-friendly modules, each unpacking a music production project through bite-sized, binge-able videos. With no ‘tech-talk’ or assumed knowledge, you can follow along using GarageBand, Soundtrap or Bandlab (your choice!).
Learn the basics and discover education-specific tips for using the software with your students.
Our first project! This one is all about quick success and picking up basic skills.
Create the blues….your way! Record the 12 bar blues in your choice of musical style
Can you record 8 unique sounds from a single object? And then turn those sounds into a piece of music? This module shows you how!
Record narration, add engaging sound effects and mix in a little background mood music in this adaptable lesson idea.
Create original soundtracks to short movie clips in this super-popular unit of work.
Compose your own video game themes using the innovative “layered loop” approach that’s used by many video game composers.
Course instructors Katie, Amy and Theresa can help teach your class with you! We’ll take care of the tech teaching, freeing you up to help individual students.
Huge time-saver! You’ll walk away with a set of short, silent (and fun!) video clips that you can use straight away in your classes.
Students can learn how to record themselves singing or playing layered harmony versions of their favorite songs. It’s simple to do and lots of fun!
Course modules will be rolled out over July and August 2022 and you can watch as many times as you like and there are no hard deadlines. The course materials are available to you for as long as you have a current Midnight Music Community membership, so you can learn around your own schedule.
From our tutorial videos, to course videos, to ready-to-use templates and more, we only create the highest quality, professional resources. Unlike some free Pinterest templates and Youtube tutorials, you can plug these into your lesson plans with ease.
Join risk-free knowing that if for whatever reason you don’t feel you’ve got your money’s worth of training materials, lesson plans, and community support, you won’t lose a thing.
Simply email our support team during your first 30-days (with proof that you’ve done the work), and we’ll happily refund your payment in full – no questions asked.
I’m on a mission to take the fear factor out of using technology in music education. Over the past 12+ years, I’ve travelled the world, training thousands of teachers at countless schools, and speaking at over 100 conferences globally. Let me tell you – if you’ve ever thought you were an anomaly when it came to music-technology-overwhelm… you’re absolutely not!
Truthfully, there are so many incredibly smart and highly capable teachers feeling limited in their ability to make an impact on their student’s lives… all because of tech overwhelm. Afterall, music technology is the new kid in town, taking classrooms by storm and helping educate, engage, and inspire students in their love for music… that is, when it’s not wreaking havoc on your sanity, and causing major classroom disruptions!
Then you will be amongst friends 🙂 This course assumes no prior knowledge and everything is explained clearly, without “tech-speak” or jargon. The aim is to get you started quickly and easily in a friendly and supportive environment.
The courses and training materials are all pre-recorded. The first modules will be available from 11 July 2022 with remaining modules released during the following weeks. You have ongoing access to all materials for as long as you have an active membership to the Midnight Music Community and you can go completely at your own pace. There are no deadlines!
The course videos can be watched at any time day or night. You can also re-watch each one as many times as you like, which is perfect if you need a refresher down the track!
You will need to have ONE of the following:
*Note for iPad users: the GarageBand app on iPad is quite different to the desktop Mac version. This course is designed for the Mac version, but if you’re interested in learning about the iPad version I already have a separate course which is specifically designed for that. You can access that course (and all other Midnight Music courses) inside the Midnight Music Community.
This course is designed for the Mac/desktop version of GarageBand – not the iPad app (which is quite different). Most of the projects in this course could be adapted for the iPad app so if you are confident doing that, feel free to join us!
The good news is that if you’re interested in learning about the iPad version of GarageBand I already have a separate course which is specifically designed for that. You can access that course (and all other Midnight Music courses) inside the Midnight Music Community.
No, not at all. You can do this entire course just using your laptop, the inbuilt mic and some (wired) headphones.
If you’d like to know more about mics or MIDI keyboards with a view to purchasing something for yourself and/or for your students, there will be information available in the first module of the course and also in the pre-course materials (in case you want to purchase something ahead of the start date).
Yes! A professional development certificate which outlines the contact hours and “homework” hours is offered for this course (and every other Midnight Music course).
This course is ONLY available via a subscription to the Midnight Music Community (MMC). The good news is that if you join the MMC for this course, you will instantly gain access to ALL the other courses inside the MMC. There are no deadlines – everything is available for as long as you have a current membership.
If you are already a member, you don’t need to do anything! You will get access to the course materials as soon as they are live.
I tried one-off course payments when I first started running online courses back in 2012. It was ok, but there were a couple of problems. Firstly, teachers wanted ONGOING access to the course materials – longer than the 6 months I was able to grant them with the old setup. Secondly, some teachers also wanted to take 2, 3, 4 or sometimes 5 of my courses (I had 3 teachers do a total of 5 courses each over a couple of years and many other do 3 or 4 courses!) and the cost involved in paying for each one separately was mounting up.
With the Midnight Music Community subscription plan, you choose: you can pay for access for as long as you need it and instead of being forced to select just one single course, you are able to access ALL the courses and resources at once. That way you can choose to study what is important to you at any given time.
In the past, access to just ONE online course was around $200 and if you come along to one of my full-day workshops you’ll pay around $180-$300 per teacher. The annual cost of joining the Midnight Music Community for a FULL 12 MONTHS is less than $500 and if you need a more affordable option you can pay by the month. In addition, you get daily access to me – ask questions and share your frustrations and the I’ll do my best to solve them for you.
There are two payment options.
You can cancel your membership at any time. Just make sure you do that a few days before the next payment is due.
The course modules will be released during July and August 2022:
Each module includes video tutorials, teacher tips and walkthroughs and a project that you will do for “homework”.
The time length of each module varies, but if you’d like a ball-park amount (!) there is roughly 1 hour of “contact” time (videos, sharing work) and 1-2 hours of “homework” time per module.
Become a masterful GarageBand for Mac, Soundtrap or Bandlab user so you can bring your classroom vision to life. This step-by-step course will take the guesswork out of running engaging music production lessons with your middle school students and create a fun and engaging learning environment quickly and easily! Work at your own pace, and tap into the support, inspiration, and tips you need for success.
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