See the music Feel the music

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See the musicFeel the music
Rev. 2
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Reasons for the project

• BSc Creative Music and Sound Technology
• Needed to develop a music related project that in
  some way benefited the local community
• Helen gave a presentation on the aims of the
  Springschool and immediately caught my interest

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Preparation

• Visited St Johns School for the Deaf
• Explained to the pupils what my workshops would
  entail and the reasoning behind them
• Was a good way to gauge how interested pupils
  would be in the workshops

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Delivery

• See the music
• A PC based game
• Playing a note brings up a short video clip of
  Indiana Jones
• The goal was to play all the clips in the right
  order by playing the right notes
• The right notes formed the pentatonic scale,
  which the students then tried to learn

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Delivery

• Feel the music
• A bass guitar hooked up to a vibrating pad
• Playing a note makes the pad vibrate
• Different notes create different vibrations
• Similar to how some hearing impaired people learn
  to play the piano

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Impact on me

• The most rewarding part of my whole time at
  university
• Watching the excitement of the pupils as a whole
  new world was opened up to them was truly
  heart-warming
• Now interested in pursuing a career in teaching