A few posts ago I talked about my job at a public high school in which I’m a music teacher in a guitar workshop for teenagers twice a week.
Since we are close to the end of the school year, and therefore most of the class is going on camps, I have much fewer students. Given the current circumstances, I am forced to have a backup plan to make lessons a bit more interesting.
High school doesn’t have a good infrastructure, activities are reduced to the cleverness of each teacher. In search of finding anything that could help me, I came across a microphone that someone had donated to the school a couple of months ago.
Only one student attended today, with whom I have performed at several music events before, I thought we could do a recording session.
I borrowed a computer (with Audacity installed) from the library, and I turned the classroom into a mini-workstation in attempts to record a song with her. All, in one take.
No mixer, no audio interface or no internet either; I was forced to "mix" old school-ly: moving the microphone around the space between the singer and me and my guitar, and after finding the right spot with a balanced mix we began.
The result was great, considering how improvised it was, obviously.
It'd be great if every high school could have some sort of mobile recording workstation so musically gifted students could have the chance to learn about it. They could learn to record themselves with just a few elements and hopefully, make it interesting enough to get them hooked for further preparation in the matter.
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Photo 2: Photo by Roberta Sorge on Unsplash
Photo 3: Photo by Mike Kotsch on Unsplash
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