This key concept video from our Music Production 1 curriculum teaches producers to break down sounds into high, low, and mid categories.

Creative Curricula for the 21st Century:

    • 10-Week Mini Course

    • Students analyze the component parts of the music they love, building a foundational approach to composition and production that is centered on their authentic passion and interest.

    • The Official Curriculum for Soundtrap (Mac, PC, Chromebook)

    • Accompanying Teacher’s Handbook

    • CTE Introductory Course

    • CTE and California Arts Standards-Aligned

    • UC A-G Credit-Approved

    • Year-Long Curriculum

    • Ableton Live (Mac and PC) available for free.

    • Accompanying Teacher’s Handbook

    • CTE Concentrator Course

    • CTE and California Arts Standards-Aligned

    • UC A-G Credit-Approved

    • Year-Long Curriculum

    • CTE Capstone Course

    • Career Pathway Development

    • Ableton Live, Logic, FL Studio, Pro Tools, or any other Digital Audio Workstation

  • A first of its kind K-12 curriculum that sheds light on the confusing and often fraught business side of music.

Music Appreciation

From the Music Appreciation curriculum, this video covers the language musicians use to describe melodic and harmonic elements of music.

This curriculum invites students to analyze the music they enjoy, and to discover connections between their favorite artists and wider cultural and social forces. 

Students may enter this course with little knowledge of modern music, but they will gain an understanding of the musical world around them. This course entices students to then contribute to their community by making music of their own! 

Grades: 6-12

Cost: $750/year

Music Production 1

From the Music Production 1 curriculum, we describe how low, mid, and high sounds come together as layers to create a larger piece of music.

This innovative curriculum breaks down the key concepts of music production. We provide instructional demonstrations for using the digital audio workstation, Soundtrap (Mac, PC, Chromebook), along with engaging assignments, exercises, games, and more so teachers can seamlessly guide students in applying the theory.

Young Producers Group is the official Soundtrap curriculum partner!

Grades: 4-12

CTE Introductory Course

Cost: $2000/year (includes Music Appreciation)

Music Production 2

Music Production 2 dives deeper into more technical music production concepts, like in this video about synthesizers’ oscillators.

Music manager Hannah Hicks (DJ Dahi, Grimes, Michael Uzowuru, Take A Daytrip, etc.) breaks down the fundamentals of copyright.

In this level, we show students how to use Ableton Live (Mac and PC), an industry-standard digital audio workstation used by music professionals in studios and on stages around the world. Through the ‘Ableton in the Classroom’ initiative, schools can receive this professional software for free! Building on the key concepts of music production covered in the previous level, this curriculum leads students through substantial projects covering high-level principles like sampling and synthesizers.

Grades: 7-12

CTE Concentrator Course

Cost: $2000/year

Music Production 1 and 2 Bundle: $3000/year

Advanced Music Technology & Business

This curriculum presents interviews with GRAMMY-winners and multi-platinum professionals where they discuss how they’ve built sustainable careers implementing the skills students learned during Music Production 1 and 2. Students also hear from leading behind-the-scenes professionals about copyright, contracts, and other industry essentials. All of this culminates in a capstone project where students create and release an album, their industry debut! 

Grades: 11-12

CTE Capstone Course

Cost: $3000/year

CTE Curriculum Pathway Bundle (MA, MP1, MP2, AMT&B): $5000/year

Music Industry

A first of its kind K-12 curriculum that sheds light on the confusing and often fraught business side of music. Concepts like copyright, contracts, royalties, fees, what an artist’s team should look like, etc. are hardly discussed at the college level, much less in high-school.

Students that complete this curriculum will have the practical knowledge they need to start building a sustainable career and exploit their intellectual property, without getting exploited themselves! 

Grades: 6-12

Cost: $1000/year