PAGE 4 EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES As a student in the Commercial Music Program, you will have many opportunities to learn and grow as a musician and as a professional, including: • Playing an instrument in the Mako Band, our popular music ensemble • Singing in the Bossa Nova Chorale, our choir that performs popular music, classical, sacred, and musical theatre • Receiving weekly applied lessons • Producing music with professional music sequencing software • Sharpening your knowledge of keys, scales, chords, and musical form • Developing your listening skills • Composing music and writing songs • Recording musicians in a studio environment • Applying mixing and mastering skills to recorded sessions • Learning music business and contemporary music publishing • Creating original music for video and advertising • Arranging music for live players with music notation software • Studying the history of Western, popular, world, and film music • Interning with South Florida professionals and working live music events Students with original music (and performance ability) may be considered for featured performances in a school concert event Additionally, students may also choose to participate in the following: • Manage live musical events (sound and lights) as part of a tech crew • Learn DJ’ing from experienced student DJs, then DJ your own events • Broadcast and/or host your own radio shows
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