This is a step-by-step approach to supporting our Music students' composing, performing and listening activities through the use of a Digital Audio Workstation.
11 resources in this Learning Path
A quick guide to the various ways to set up an account in Soundtrap. It includes Personal and Educational options.
View full descriptionStrand: General
Suggestions for use: Learn how to access the DAW program, Soundtrap, for free, both for personal use and classroom use.
This video suggests a quick way of engaging students with Soundtrap for the first time. It suggests how they can familiarise themselves with the program.
View full descriptionStrand: Music
Suggestions for use: Become familiar with the different loops and combinations of loops. Explore the different instruments.
This instructional video demonstrates the three ways to import an mp3 into Soundtrap and how to make basic edits such as trimming the track, fading in and out and changing the key.
View full descriptionStrand: Performing
Suggestions for use: Doing basic edits in Soundtrap.
This instructional video demonstrates how to create a backing track using Soundtrap and Moises.ai
View full descriptionStrand: Performing
Suggestions for use: The backing track can be used for exam preparation and for an actual performance, giving the student control over their rehearsal times and their own interpretation.
This instructional video demonstrates how to export an mp3 in Soundtrap and how to collaborate with others on a project in a web-based browser or on the Soundtrap phone app.
View full descriptionStrand: Performing
Suggestions for use: Exporting audio, collaborating on projects with other students and using the phone app version of Soundtrap.
The interface that Soundtrap uses when you log in to your account on a web-based browser
View full descriptionStrand: General
Suggestions for use: This is a guide for someone using Soundtrap for the first time on a web-based browser application.
The interface that Soundtrap uses when you log in to your account through the phone app.
View full descriptionStrand: General
Suggestions for use: This is a guide for someone using Soundtrap for the first time on the Soundtrap phone app.
This video demonstrates how students created a podcast using Soundtrap. It involves recording, adding sound effects and finding background music.
View full descriptionStrand: Music
Suggestions for use: A podcast is a creative project for a TY or LCA module. It builds the students' confidence, encourages teamwork and reinforces their media skills.
This video demonstrates how students compiled a radio programme.
View full descriptionStrand: Music
Suggestions for use: This activity is suitable as a module for TY or LCA. Making a radio programme requires teamwork, project management, a few creative ideas and some editing skills.
An in-depth demonstration of how to edit audio in Soundtrap and how to apply those tools in achieving learning outcomes in the prescribed Leaving Certificate Set Works. The video details every step of the process; from importing audio, to splicing audio files, to some of the more helpful shortcuts for an efficient workflow. Some practical ideas are also shared in the area of creating exams and class tests using Soundtrap.
View full descriptionStrand: Set Works
Suggestions for use: Use these ideas to introduce some of the basic features of Soundtrap and DAW technology more broadly. This video aims to clarify some of the fundamental ways Soundtrap can be implemented as an extension of the tools already used by music teachers to deliver learning outcomes effectively.
This video demonstrates the full capabilities of Soundtrap and suggests how it can be used in facilitating creative composing in the music classroom. The video moves in a sequenced approach, detailing precisely the features of Soundtrap that are used.
View full descriptionStrand: Set Works
Suggestions for use: This video aims to inspire ideas for composing in a Leaving Cert Music classroom. It is an approach to engaging interactively with the Leaving Cert Set Works. Finally, it gives suggestions for furthering knowledge in the more advanced tools available in Soundtrap.
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