For this assessment I chose to do the song ‘Stay’, released in 2021 through a collaboration between The Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber. Aside from being a highly popular song with a very catchy tune, I also think it is a great opportunity to focus on a song by an Australian artist of Aboriginal Heritage,…

From our discussion of Comprehensive Musicianship, there was one thing that James said that really stood out to me: the language around the music should only ever be secondary to the music itself. Whilst this doesn’t mean the language isn’t important and doesn’t have a place, I take this to mean that the language is…

Throughout my perusal of chapter 3 of this book, I found myself frequently reflecting upon my own musical education and experiences as a classical musician to date, making for a simultaneously enjoyable and occasionally confronting experience. Anna Bull’s concept of having 3 separate groups of ‘people’ was to me quite interesting: ‘bright futures’, ‘master’s of…

This reading really struck a chord with me, and it tied in so well with our class discussion in Week 1 that I just wanted to share some thoughts on it. One point that was articulated in this reading from the work of Elliot (1989) was that the act of creating music and indeed the…

Google Classroom Link: https://classroom.google.com/c/NDk2MjM3MDMxMjQ1?cjc=2k6ah6l (Class code: 2k6ah6l) Task: Create a genre-shift cover version of a popular song using Soundtrap Directions: Choose a pop song and create a cover version of it in a genre that is significantly different from the original Use Sountrap to create, record and mix your song and then export it to…

After a myriad of interruptions including public holidays (the joys of having class on a Monday), mid semester break and a few missed blogs on my own account, we are back in business! Last lesson we each individually came up with a project which guided its students to recreate a piece of music in a…

Okay so this was a fun lesson! The ‘Groove Pizza’ educational resource was a fantastic insight into how complex rhythm concepts such as swing beat and polyrhythms can be introduced through an accessible, fun and interactive medium. To the point where i’m sure many students wouldn’t actually realise that the activity they’re doing is educational…

I do realise that unfortunately I have now fallen a number of weeks behind in my blogging, and so rather than going into detail about what we actually did in each week, I will focus more on how I felt about it as I find that emotions have a stronger hold on the memory than…

So this week was the moment that we got to hear each others unreliable product advertisements! Each pair got to showcase their jingles for the class and it was hilarious and yet also very impressive what some of the groups came up with! Unfortunately due to a resurgence of Covid we were back on zoom…

Show and tell! Today was the day we got to hear about how all of the other specialist subjects were going from others in our MTeach Music Extension class. Myself and Nick being the only two from Popular Music Studies gave everyone an insight into what we’ve been doing and how we felt going into…