Take: Creative Vocal Recorder App. —> Vignette!

As Chloe walked to music class, she was raving to her friends about this new app, called Take, Creative Vocal Recorder. “Hey Nicole!” Chloe shouted to her friend from across the hall, “Check out this cool new app! We can record our own voices right here on the phone or an ipad! And when you use headphones you can hear yourself and everything around you, so its much better quality. How cool is that?” As Chloe showed Nicole more details about the app and how it worked, Nicole was excited about it now too, and they walked into class together ready to use the app in Mrs. O’Connor’s music class. “Ok class, listen up! We are going to get straight to work on the in-class assignment we talked about yesterday. More than likely it will take all of the class time so we need to get to work right away!” Mrs. O’Connor continued, “Here is your assignment for today, to complete in class.” She placed a piece of paper on the projector and began to read aloud the written instructions. “1.) Form a group of three, and only use one persons phone to use the vocal recorder app. 2.) Create some sort of melody line to record. 3.) Be creative! The melody can be whatever you want, just as long as you have 1 recorded vocal melody line, and 1 other recorded instrument. 4.) There are 3 people in your group, so everyone must record something! And be apart of the track. 5.) Use any instruments within the room. Be sure to put them back where you found them. 6.) The track has to be at least 1:30 secs long. 7.) I will call everyone together when it is time to present them. Ready set go, HAVE FUN!” The students hurried to pull out their phones as directed, and open up the app, all very excited to begin the assignment. The students used their creativity, & knowledge of music to create all sorts of different melodies and sounds! You could tell they loved the assignment and really put all their focus into it. Some students struggled to figure out how the app worked at first, but soon got the hang of it. Others had problems with eliminating the background noise, but overall the app was a huge success to getting the kids to work on their own, use creativity, & focus on what they already knew about how to create music! After presenting their tracks, Chloe, Nicole and some other classmates met up after school to create even more tracks, just for the fun of it!