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This unit is now available for purchase in the Steve's Music Room Publishing Store. Get it here! In a stunning feat of Irony, songwriting fits into the Language Arts curriculum more easily than the Instrumental Music curriculum. I mean, weird, right? Isn’t it? Anyway, I recently facilitated a unit on songwriting and poetry with a focus on figurative language in a Grade 9 Language Arts class. The culminating activity for this unit has learners creating their own songs individu

8 Technology and Online Learning Resources from Steve’s Music Room. To help with your tech or remote learning and in-person technology needs, I’ve compiled a list of blog posts from the website to help you in your endeavors: 3 Awesome Online Drum Machines 9 Ways to Use Google’s Blob Opera MIDI for Music Teachers: Using MIDI in the Music Classroom On and Offline 6 Ideas for Teaching Music Online 5 More Ideas for Teaching Music Online Tech Ideas for Creative Musicking STEAM in

This is a small adapted section of a chapter that has been published in Technology for Unleashing Creativity by Steve Giddings, released by Oxford University Press in April 2022. 3 Amazingly Useful Online Drum Machines Drum machines are a type of step sequencer that emulate sounds of a drummer. Some iconic drum machines, like the Roland TR-808, with their signature electronic drum sound, became the foundation of much of hip-hop and modern music production. A sequencer is a pi