Harrington Middle School Seventh Grade Music

Program Overview

Each seventh grade student spends one marking period (nine consecutive weeks) in this class.

Harrington Middle School's Seventh Grade Music program provides hands-on experience
in the following areas:

• An introduction to the many ways computers and multimedia technologies are used in music today.
• Singing (With and without sound reinforcement)
• Guitar chords (Acoustic and electric)
• Electric bass guitar
• Drum set & percussion techniques
• Piano/keyboard basic notes and chords

Technology Software Used in Class

Mega Rock Rap 'n Roll/ CD -ROM Interactive easy play along with different musical styles. Students create compositions which can then processed into MP3 files.

GarageBand - Apple's award winning application is a fun and powerful tool that students use to create, perform and record original music. Students can then add what they create to their projects in all subject areas for a new dimension in learning. Students create original music by simply combining a series of pre-recorded musical performances (called Apple Loops). Or, they can plug in their guitar, keyboard, or microphone and record their own music and then use the loops to create additional tracks to accompany their recordings. They can use their original score as background for digital media projects, export their songs to iTunes and create their own music CDs, or use them again as Apple Loops. What's more, students can use GarageBand to easily record web/podcasts, then add images, special effect sounds, and jingles to their recordings. They can then publish their podcasts on a webpage.

Quicktime- MIDI files with karaoke lyric tracks are performed in class.

Some Of The Other Technology Being Used By The Harrington Music Programs

iMovie & iDVD – Video production

Dreamweaver & Claris Homepage - Web page construction

Final Cut Pro, Media Cleaner & Quicktime Pro-Video

MS Word - All word processing

Adobe InDesign - Program Playbills

Safari & Firefox- Internet browsers

Microsoft/Powerpoint - Presentation Software

Berkley Integrated Audio Software - Peak & Adaptec Jam & Toast CD & MP3 mastering

Quicktime Broadcaster for live webcasts

Mark Of The Unicorn Digital Performer - Composition and playback of MIDI musical sequences performed by Mr. Jeckot and Class

Passport Designs Encore - Printed orchestra scores and parts transcribed from the MIDI sequences are then

played by musicians

Contact Info

Email - jjeckot@mountlaurel.k12.nj.us

Phone - 856-234-1610 x 2037

Visit us on the web at: http://www.mtlaurelschools.org/hmsperformingarts/default.htm

Check Mr. Jeckot’s Message Board at: http://www.mtlaurelschools.org/hmsperformingarts/message_board.html