Name: DAW-Based Music Theory
Start: 2025-06-07T15:15:00-0500
End: 2025-06-07T15:45:00-0500

Welcome to the APME Memphis 2025 conference. Here, you’ll be able to register for the conference and update your Sched profile. The conference schedule will be available in late spring 2025. At that time, you can view the schedule and select the presentations you’d like to attend. If you have any questions, please visit our conference website or contact us at conference@popularmusiceducation.org We look forward to coming together as a community June 4–7, 2025.

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm CDT

Computer Lab - Legacy Building

This workshop will demonstrate a new, teacher-created and student-centered approach to music theory instruction. The curriculum is based on my experiences teaching audio and music production in a diverse urban setting. In my classroom, it is common to have students with a wide variety of experience levels in music. Some have taken lessons on an instrument for years, while others have had no formal training at all. Some students are part of their school’s music program, but most are not. Often, my class is the first music class students have taken since elementary school. Even though students may not participate in their school music program, that does not mean they are not musically curious or creative. Sometimes, the most musical students elect not to join the school band or choir because the setting or repertoire does not appeal to their musical sensibilities and goals. But without some training, creative students are left to guess how to put musical elements together in a cohesive way. In order to meet students where they are, at whatever ability level, I have designed a music theory course that eschews the Western staff in favor of the MIDI editor. We use Ableton Live, but the concepts may be realized through any digital audio workstation (DAW).

Speakers

Ryan Van Bibber

Audio Production Instructor, Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center

Ryan Van Bibber teaches audio and music production at the Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center: a large, urban, public high school in Columbus, OH, USA. He has degrees in music education from Ohio University and The Ohio State University, a master certificate in music writing... Read More →

Saturday June 7, 2025 3:15pm - 3:45pm CDT
Computer Lab - Legacy Building 3775 Central Avenue 129 Music Building Memphis, TN, 38111

Technologies in Popular Music Education, Demonstration

APME Memphis 2025

Ryan Van Bibber

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