This project explores a teaching method where 16 students (eight trackers and eight topliners) make music in four different modes. Each day for four days, new trackers are coupled with new topliners, forming unique eight pairs of students that vary daily. Eight new songs will be created each day, a total production of 32 songs.
- Students work together in the same room and are asked to finish melody, lyrics, and chord structure before starting the process of arranging and producing with no DAW involvement in the process
- Students work together in the same room, but the DAW is the only available tool for making the song. They are encouraged not to use instruments other than the laptop, though a MIDI keyboard or controller for programming is seen as extensions of the DAW.
- Students work separately, and the track is made first, then sent to someone else who is making the topline.
- Students work separately, and the topline is made first, then sent to someone else who is making the track.
The project aims at developing a new model for using co-writing in music education to approach a broad range of skills the students encounter during their collaborations.
