iPad in the high school music classroom
Well, that went well. I’ve used (little) metronomes before to illustrate how notes get divided up, but this is obvious, dramatic and enagaging.
- App: frozen ape tempo
- Hardware: iPad2 and vga adapter
It was really effective getting a student to play with the beat separation buttons while the rest clapped the beats or clapped an alternative beat.
They gained a new understanding of note durations and feel.
*swoon* seems a lot stronger than like!
Lol. 🙂
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