Mastering Music for Education

Curriculum-Based Music Lessons

Mastering Music is a teaching and learning resource with lessons covering all aspects of music. These lessons have been mapped to the curriculum for each Year level (3-12) for easy assignment by teachers to student classes.

How are the Mastering Music lessons structured?

Grouped into Year Levels (3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, 11/12)
Each Year Level Group contains curriculum details about Learning Experiences, Content Descriptors, Musical Concepts and Musical Skills
The lessons in each Year Level Group are categorized into 4 learning areas for easy reference and selection

Performing

Perform songs from beginner to advanced for all musical styles including folk, rock, ballad, jazz and classical. All instruments, vocal, choir & orchestra. Includes improvising as well.

Composing

Composing, Instrumentation, Arranging, Tempo, Quantizing,
Editing, Mixing, Radio Remix,
Drum Loops, Film Scoring and lots
more fun activities!

Publishing

All aspects of notation including notes, dynamics, chords, lyrics, instrument ranges, time signatures, repeats,
1st and 2nd endings, codas, fines and publishing layout.

Musicianship

Ear training and music theory for intervals, chords, scales and cadences, rhythmic and melodic dictation, clefs, key signatures, harmonizing melodies and much more.

What is the learning methodology?

All of the Performing, Composing and Publishing lessons use our Mastering Music Sequencer where students are editing songs within their web browser and saving these to their Google drive. The teacher accesses their work through a teacher interface and provides a mark.

Each sequencing lesson contains an outline of what is required and opens into the correct editor with the correct tool ready for immediate use, focussing the student on the lesson content and not the technology behind the lesson.
Each lesson outline contains hyperlinks to help pages to assist the student in completing the work.

The Musicianship lessons are a combination of sequencing lessons, aural lessons and theory lessons, with the theory lessons containing information pages, exercises and assessment tasks. The following 2 minute video shows the range of lesson material across these 4 learning areas and how this works.

Technology Made Easy in the Connected Classroom

The Mastering Music lessons are delivered using Google Classroom providing a seamless environment for teachers and students through a single logon with each student's work stored on their Google Drive.

Mastering Music Testimonials

"Mastering Music has been developed by experienced musicians and music educators to place the power and the pleasure of digital music-making in the hands of students, taking them from musical rudiments to advanced skills in performance, composition and listening. It embeds the foundational skills of aural discernment, notation and arrangement within interactive learning experiences that allow students to develop their ability to compose, perform and record their own music using the power of a DAW, but all running from your web browser with nothing to install. Mastering Music is a comprehensive learning package that can enhance any school music program and is supported by an informative professional development course and a highly experienced production team."
Dr Philip Cooney, Wycliffe Christian School

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