Participants will be able to use laptops with programmes enabling them to construct a piece of music. Normally we begin with drums and build the song by incorporating ‘blocks’ (visual representation of recorded sounds) of single drum hits (BOOM, CLICK, CLAP etc) until we have composed a good rhythm. The E-Unique Team will construct a majority of the technical detail while participants choose from the wide variety of styles of music and tempo on offer. Then  participants choose what sounds/samples they are really feeling and at which position they want them in the song. Live instruments, percussion, sound effects and synthesisers can be played in via midi keyboard and the vocals recorded via the microphone.

The overall aim of the workshop is to create an original piece of music which will have been written, recorded and performed by the young people and be available for them to take home (by CD) or download.

DJ Workshops

After a brief introduction we get participants behind the decks to try out what they’ve just seen and heard. We guide them through different techniques. A tutor will stand where the audience would be so they have full control and access to the decks (as they would at a gig). We provide Vinyl and CD turntables. We may suggest different songs/styles participants could mix.

For example a Drum & Bass (180 bpm) track mixed with a Hip-Hop track (90 bpm) (because the hip hop track is half the speed of D&B). During the initial stages, (depending on group size) it’s more about making sure everyone gets a go at the basics. Just because DJ’s get paid loads and are supposedly ‘cool’ this doesn’t mean that it’s hard to DJ. Getting teachers/youth workers involved easily proves this.

   

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