Ideas/Thoughts for Audio Curriculum

I’m trying to come up with lessons/curriculum for Audio Production/Basic Principles of Audio for middle schoolers. I hope to have a classroom set of arturia minilab 3 controllers and audio interfaces for each student. I have 15 so far, i just need 7 more.

Anyway, I’m thinking of breaking it down like this:

Basic principles of audio (soundwaves, amplitude, etc. I found a few good short videos on berklee)

Basic principles of synthesizers (different types of waves, some interesting videos on history of arp2600, fairlight cmi and any other good history videos I can find)

Thinking about doing some of the learning.ableton.com lessons. And writing some questions to go along with them.

Some videos on music making to hype up the students.

Some videos and questions on very light music theory.

Some videos on arturia minilab 3 and ableton basics.

Introduce them to very very basic recording with ableton.

Introduce them to some instruments with arturia analog lab.

Do some projects where we recreate simple melodies from famous songs and record them (maybe the intro to strawberry fields, strings of kashmir)

Any other suggestions or edits?

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Hello ZepKing - lucky that middle schoolers will have access to this! Great times we are living in!

How about a section on how to make a virtual instrument from scratch using the sounds around them? Like that challenge that was on not too long ago. Then they will always be able to have instruments to compose with and make new ones too!

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That is a great idea! My department gave me a few microphones. I don’t know how exactly to do that, but I’m very confident I could figure it out and show my students.

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These are quite fun, not too complex but could be run on an iPad if you need to split the class up a bit.

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments

These Google ones are the simplest but still good to play about.

as well as the ableton one you already have listed…

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Those are awesome! I’ve never seen those before. Students will definitely like messing around with those. Very cool!

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These 2 are more powerful but complex… I’m new to them but fun to try stuff out.

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I don’t know enough to understand how to use those last two.