Canada's music classrooms are undergoing a transformation, incorporating contemporary music technology alongside traditional instruments.
Step into a music class today and you might just find laptops, turntables and MIDI controllers alongside the clarinets, recorders or violins most people expect to see. From elementary school through post-secondary, some teachers are expanding the definition of music education and encouraging more students to try music-making.Gr. 12 student Erfan Saffari, centre, plays on a new DJ set-up at his Toronto school during an extra curricular music production club in early December.
The equipment, purchased with the support of music education charity MusiCounts, will also be used during a new senior level, for-credit Introduction to Music Technology course his school is set to launch in February. (Craig Chivers/CBC)A class of university students listens with rapt attention as Shadrach Kabango, better known as the award-winning rapper Shad, shares his thought processes when feeling stuck while creating a new track. Maybe it needs to breathe, or a part of it can be dropped, he suggests. Perhaps he might sharpen a lyric, inject some noise or introduce a call-and-response element to get some audience participation. Not long after, a smiling Shad is nodding along as his students try beat-making for themselves. It's a hands-on opportunity to apply what they're learning from his lessons, steeped in 'a very hip-hop kind of mentality.' Step into a music class today and you might find laptops, turntables and MIDI controllers joining the expected clarinets, recorders and violins. From elementary through post-secondary schooling, some teachers are expanding music education and encouraging more students to try more contemporary forms of music-making.Rapper Shad on sharing the richness of hip-hop with students taking a new course in Wilfrid Laurier University’s faculty of musi
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