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Contemporary Music: Unit 1
Weeks 1-3: Assessed by Jan. 22

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This page contains the calendar and rubric for this unit. You'll find several hyperlinks to resources embedded within the calendar. Rubrics are linear progressions of broad and common goals for growth as well-rounded musicians. Progress through each row from left to right. The objective is to score a 3 in each category by the end of this 3-week unit. Once you've scored a 3 in each category, you can challenge yourself to move to a 4.

Unit 1 Calendar

​​Monday 1/4
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Plan or Success
- pdf
- Agreement
 
Student Info Form
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Instrument Info
- Lease Agreement
Career research
- quiz
- bracket
Tuesday 1/5

Plan or Success
- pdf
- Agreement
 
Student Info Form
​
Instrument Info
- Lease Agreement
Career research
​- education/salary

Wednesday 1/6

Career presentations
​YouTube playlists
- small groups

BandLab
- demo

​Thursday 1/7
​
BandLab
- demo
​- small groups
Friday 1/8

BandLab
- demo
​​- small groups

Monday 1/11

Course fee
Form examples
​BandLab
- demo
​- form
​​- small groups
Tuesday 1/12

Course fee
​
Form examples
​BandLab
- demo
​- form
​​- small groups
Wednesday 1/13
- Late Start/Half Day


Course fee
​
Individual channels

​BandLab
- drum beat compositions
​​- small groups
Thursday 1/14

Course fee
​
​Instrument Info
- Lease Agreement
- ​Instrument survey
BandLab
- drum beat compositions
​​- small groups
Friday 1/15

Course fee
Instrument Info
- Lease Agreement
- ​Instrument survey
BandLab
- drum beat compositions
- basslines
​- small groups




Monday 1/18
- No School
- MLK Holiday

Tuesday 1/19
- Instrument Distribution

- 2:30 - 4:00pm

​
BandLab
- drum beat compositions
- form
​- basslines
​- small groups
Wednesday 1/20

Intro to Piano
- white keys
​- technique

BandLab
- drum beat compositions
​- basslines
​- progress journals
Thursday 1/21

Intro to Piano
- white keys
​- Keyboard ID 1 quiz

​BandLab
​
- Unit 1 demo
​Progress journals

- drum beat compositions
- bassline compositions
​- loops
- voice
Friday 1/22
- Asynchronous Day
- Progress Reports
​

BandLab project due
​- two sections
- composed drum beats
- composed basslines
- loops for texture
​- recorded voice



​Unit 1 Rubric

1: Fan - 60%
2: Roadie - 70%
3: Opener - 90%
4: Headliner - 100%

Melodic
​Performance

(MU.PR.6.HI.5a)

​1. Perform/record a basic drum beat
​2. Perform/record a basic drum beat and a bassline
​3. Perform/record multiple drum beats and a bassline
​4. Perform/record multiple drum beats, basslines, and play/sing a major scale in a recorded performance

Music
​Technology

(MU.PR.5.HI.5a)

1. Submit a BandLab project
2. Submit a BandLab project that uses multiple parts
3. Submit a BandLab project that uses multiple parts and your recorded voice
4. Submit a BandLab project that uses multiple parts and your recorded singing voice

Music
​Theory
(MU.PR.4.HI.5b)

1. Create an original drum beat 
2. Create an original drum beat and identify white keys on the piano
3. Create an original drum beat and identify all keys on the piano
4. Create an original drum beat and identify pitches of diatonic triads on the piano

Practice
​Skills

(MU.PR.5.HI.5a)

1. Submit all course documents
2. Submit all course documents including​a completed Progress Journal
3. Submit all course documents including​ two completed Progress Journals and demonstrate significant progress
4. Submit all course documents including three completed Progress Journals and demonstrate significant progress

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