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Arts and Entrepreneurship Mark Samples Arts and Entrepreneurship Mark Samples

I Took My Students' Melody...And Did This

I surprised my music students this morning.

On Friday I had my Arts Entrepreneurship students give me random notes between A and G.

We came up with this 10-note melody (see the whiteboard image).

I surprised them with this track this morning. They had no idea I was going to produce a track based on our little insignificant composition.

We're calling it "MVP (Maximum Vibes Possible)," and we are going to run an experiment: how many plays can we get before the end of the term?

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