Everything is Music!🎵

Instructors: Andrew Freeman,  Leandrew Dixon and Bennett Sullivan
SPARC Area: Arts

🌟 Spark Your Child’s Love for Music

This hands-on, joy-filled course ignites your child’s creativity and shows them that everyone is a musician—especially them.

Music isn’t just sound. It’s frequency, vibration, and mathematical relationships—patterns found in nature, biology, and even the cosmos. Scientists now understand that our brains operate using musical frequencies, which may explain why music has such a powerful effect on emotions, learning, and creativity.

In Make Awesome Music Tracks, students discover how everything is music and how music becomes a tool for self-expression, emotional awareness, and creativity. By the end of the program, every child will create at least one original, polished, SICK music track!

🎯 Course Objectives

In this class students will learn to:

  • Understand the foundations of music: rhythm, chord progressions, harmonies, melody, songwriting, and vocal expression.
  • See how musical patterns appear everywhere—from nature to the human body to the universe.
  • Use a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) like GarageBand (Mac/iPad) or Ableton Live (Mac/Windows) to compose, arrange, record, mix, and export original music.
  • Build confidence in their natural musical instincts and express themselves through their own sound.

Weekly Journey

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Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
January 12, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Laying Down Beats

- Get familiar with your GarageBand or Ableton DAW while laying down your first beats. 
- Learn the fundamentals of rhythm and strategies for creating SICK beats
- How to program the different drum parts - bass, snare, high hat, cymbals, etc.
- Workshop for creating your first rhythm tracks

January 19, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Laying Down Chords

- Learn the concepts of major, minor, diminished and augmented scales, and how you can build the scales tones into chords
- Learn how chord progressions work, and we’ll play around with creating our own progressions. 
- Learn how to build chords on your DAW via keyboard, external instrument (e.g. guitar) or samples
- Workshop for laying chords on top of your beats

January 26, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Creating Melodies

- Introduction to Melody as movements of tones.
- Analyze the way we speak - melody is an important part of our speech and our ability to understand each other - the rising and falling of pitches. - Melodies in nature - birds and animals. Melodies as movement (e.g. ballet / dance). 
- Basics of melodies via vocals and instruments
- Workshop: Lay down instrumental or vocal melodies

February 2, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Songwriting - the musical expression of stories

- What are the elements of a story in music? Different examples
- Writing workshop where we’ll work on lyrics
- Workshop: Add vocals to your mix

february 9, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Adding Sampled or Mic’d Instruments

- How do we round-out and enhance our basic beats, chords and vocals with additional instruments and sounds?
- Workshop: Add other instruments and samples to your mix to add beauty, interest and excitement

february 16, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Mixing and Mastering

- Once the tracks are all laid-down, how do we make them sound polished and professional? We’ll get into the basics of mixing, mastering, exporting and sharing our tracks
- Workshop: Polishing-up our masterpieces

Feb 23, 2025 | 9:00am pacific time

Finishing Touches

Week 7 will be 100% devoted to working with the students to get their tracks finished and polished-up.
March 2, 2026 | 9:00 am pacific time

Showcase and Listening Party

- We’ve worked hard on our songs! It’s time that we share them with the world.
- You’ll invite your friends and family, and we’ll invite our community to hear your masterpieces.

Topics may evolve as we continue refining the course to best support student experience and flow.

Is This Class Right for Your Kid?

If your child loves music and would love to create their own tracks to enjoy and share, this is the place to be!

It’s also a great fit for students who benefit from structure, self-reflection, or creative outlets for emotional expression.

Enroll Now and Unlock Your Child's Inner Potential

Enrollment includes:
✔ Weekly live sessions (1 hours)
✔ Writing prompts and scene-building tools
✔ Supportive feedback and editing guidance
✔ Access to class recordings
✔ Completion badge: Story Architect
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Our Heartfelt Guarantee

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We want kids to feel capable of handling the volatile conditions of life. We want them confident in their ability to access their inner power. If your kid attends the classes, does the exercises, and you don’t witness them feeling more empowered, let us know and we will promptly provide you a full refund.

What makes us different

Frequently Asked Questions

Will the course be recorded?

Yes! All sessions are recorded with captions and will be available within 48 hours after the live class.

What age is this course best for?

This course is designed for ages 8 and up, but the ideas we explore are meaningful at any age. Younger children may enjoy joining with a parent, and teens and adults often find the content just as fascinating.

What’s the time commitment?

Plan for 1 hour of live class each week, plus 10–30 minutes a day for light reflection, journaling, or hands-on exploration.

What materials will we need?

You’ll need a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), GarageBand for Apple devices, or Ableton for Windows devices. Optionally, students can use a MIDI Keyboard, microphone, and Audio Interface. We’ll send more details prior to class.
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