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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?