The Creative Element: Forging a Path in Music Education

[@BrassicaMusic]

People should be encouraged to make THEIR music. This is awesome.

[@Xandalfo]

Damn I wished Ableton Push was an instrument to choose instead of Flute or Piano back in school!

[@estebanrojasr]

I understand the value of having an Ableton Push. I don’t think that it replaces a piano or a flute though. They are complementary.

[@MRGO0OSE]

@@estebanrojasr yeah i agree. Like how that kid from CT said the violin allowed him to make the music as he heard it. Push helps me discover new stuff, but a traditional instrument like a keyboard is a great way for me to express myself

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

never underestimate a flute 😇

[@lalorod03]

This makes me cry, it´s beautiful

[@takkischitt]

Bravo to the kids who made the backing music/score for the video. Great sounds.

[@Ast3rixMusic]

I love seeing that Ableton it backing school programs. As a child I was exposed to basic piano classes that got me interested in doing more in music. I don't think I would have the love I have without that exposure to music at an early age. Also having that basic understanding of music theory has been beneficial to me. While I do understand that traditional teaching does have it's purpose let's be honest it's boring unless you were exposed to classical music at an early age. I love seeing programs that engage you in popular music and allow you to learn how to make your own music. Not every kid will want to make music a career. It's a creative outlet to enhance creativity. I hope to see more of these types of programs and companies reaching out to the education systems. I see it as a win win because those kids will become future consumers.

[@mullandglow]

This type of program needs to be everywhere.

[@jonp.1084]

I can't imagine how awesome it must feel for these kids to have access to this technology. I started producing around 2001 and where the technology is today was how I always dreamed it could be. There really aren't that many limits anymore on creative production.

[@mananchaturvedi6173]

Absolutely incredible. Being a student, I absolutely love this

[@gracescale]

Cool, that it was scored by the music from the class.

[@Bronwyn031]

When I started playing piano back in the early 90's I was introduced to the "do's and don't" of music creation. When I questioned why I can't do something I was told that it simply would not sound right and people will laugh at you. Music is from the heart and soul and just because one person finds your creation to be annoying or odd there will be others who adore your works. Just make music and don't get to wrapped up in the rules of the old guard.

[@jefgibbons]

Well said SoCal Gal! ;)

[@StefanWolfrum]

WORD!! ❤️

[@jefgibbons]

I needed this this morning. So inspired by what these teachers are doing!

[@jamesfrankel1315]

Incredibly well done. Hats off to these amazing music educators and the brilliant folks at Ableton.

[@eljaguarenelbeat]

Amazing job. Thanks to all the educators worldwide transforming musical education and spreading love

[@erickr4ndom]

Just Beautiful! Makes me wanna devote myself to a Music Tecnology Education Career. Unfortunately Music Tech is very expensive for schools in my country. Music has never been encouraged in Public Schools and on private schools the approach is way too square and classically approached. All those kids are very lucky!

[@RiczWest]

Great to see where my Push 1 went when I traded up to a Push 2 😀 Qdos to Ableton for coming up with the scheme in the first place 👍

[@alieustiansamateh6401]

Wish I had this when I grew up and I wish for young people growing up to embrace this if this is making you feel happy or engaged, this is gold! 👌🏽😁

[@schwoebel]

What I wouldn't have given to have a teacher like that ... fantastic!

[@Lezdoval]

Ableton debería ser gratuito. Muchos queremos hacer música con su software. Saludos desde México 🇲🇽

[@ElecBrane]

Well equipped school, awesome. My school just have one (!) computer for the whole music faculty.

[@moano3271]

It’s a great added bonus to know that when buying ableton live and keep doing so with updates etc. makes it possible for Ableton as a company to help this be a reality for young kids wanting to express themselves in a meaningful, positive and giving way 👍 very cool!

[@juano_boi]

Esto es perfecto, se debería aplicar en la mayoría de escuelas y no seguir con lo tradicional porque eso quedo en el pasado... Esto es el futuro y ableton lo sabe! -This is the future and Ableton knows it.

[@Noir_music]

We didn't even have music as a subject , didn't even have proper internet till my late teens never knew we could make music in such a way this kids are so lucky they have so much infront of them .

[@phormyouluuh5276]

As a person who is grateful to use ableton, it really brightens my day to the Software being used for the youth for learning. Thankful for this video.Thank you

[@ruariwilson9696]

What an exciting view on learning music. Brilliant teachers and students.

[@jasonmaggard3829]

Amazing. Tears in my eyes

[@Mendomi]

It simply amazes me when people thumb down stories like this. Some people choose to be close minded and ignorant. Nice video and inspirational.

[@djOguh]

Great message for those who don’t understand how music can be important in school; in culture, as live and meaning… thanks for this great great way of valour giving to Art!🙏🏼🎶🎵♥️🍀🔊

[@sisyphusvasilias3943]

It's great that Ableton is supporting this. Digital Music Creation belongs in schools or with Kids education and I've been working on an open source sequencer/mixer that I hope to develop with a suite of midi controllers produced as a not for profit with a crowd funding financing model to keep it cheap as possible. There are more than enough schools that can afford mature professional products like Ableton but there are too many schools that can't afford the pro models and those students need a path into digital music that isnt ripped software and unreliable controllers.

[@_banja]

Man if I had the musical confidence and voice I have now when I was a kid, I would have been unstoppable.

[@annelisekuhn8765]

Mr. Kuhn is so cool and funny 👍

[@BobBell.]

Great stuff, hats off to all involved and especially the teachers ❤️

[@amado7760]

This is so nice - I am so happy for those students and congratulate the instructors and the schools for making this happen - awesome - you are making a real impact in these students lives

[@turfoid7899]

The advice i would give myself starting out is, its not the destination, but the journey. And also equally important, you dont know everything about music, noone does, were all built the same. And number 1 thing, have fun first 🙂

[@DUONZ11]

Keith Swanick is spreading a new form of musical education based on a methodology called C(L)A(S)P where Composition is the first and most important thing for learning music. Yes! Technology is helping the creative process. After starting creating with technology, anyone will study deeper and develop the own way of understanding music (and it's not only knowing how to read music notation)

[@spooqs]

This was really inspiring - having a great teacher who is invested in your success is half the battle. I wish I had a Ms. Uye-Parker or Ms. Freedman in my musical life early on.

[@barbarafreedman1780]

Thanks for your kind words. You can have a great music teacher now. Go find one in your neighborhood!

[@spooqs]

@@barbarafreedman1780 Thanks for responding! As an adult I have a few great teachers now - but all the time I find myself wishing I had started learning much earlier. Those kids that choose to stick with music have a huge leg up in their journey.

[@barbarafreedman1542]

@@spooqs I wish I had studied piano more when I was a kid. You are absolutely correct, an early start helps. Good luck.

[@spooqs]

@@barbarafreedman1542 Thank you! I'm in Ableton right now grinding away! Luck and hard work!

[@Sramanification]

Excellent video. We learned a lot from this at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

[@kavokei1337]

Very cool video, Ableton. I spent some time doing work like this a few years ago and it's incredibly rewarding helping people to find their musical voice. I'm glad these kids are getting to do that with Ableton Live, not being forced to use something that could drive them away from music tech (like Pro Tools?) The one thing with that video was hearing about the difficulties with budgets and next shot there's a room full of iMacs. I get that there's Apple hardware in every studio, but kids shouldn't see that as a barrier to entry - they need to know that it's still possible to be just as creative and innovative with a crappy old laptop, a copy of Live Intro and free VSTs.

[@profoundofficial4801]

Man I wish I had these types of classes growing up awesome stuff

[@KevinChepe]

Love you Ableton!

[@KamilSarna]

This is just amazing. How I wish I had this kind of lessons when I was in school! Great stuff!

[@Tuariq1]

No mater how awesome such projects are, in most cases they are one time projects. After a while they get closed due to financial reasons. What I'm missing is some form of commitment by schools or governments to fund and support creative careers from low income areas. Otherwise we'll never be able to seal the gap between the upper and lower classes

[@HeathHolme]

Great work to all involved!! Music making and the learning process IMO should be fun!!! If we continue to develop and embrace this style of Music Education the future will be bright!! ❤️

[@timoploog]

How inspiring... great Video!!! 🥰 I'm sure this will open a lot of doors.

[@unknown9274]

cool to see all these push1 from the tradein program out there inspiring the next generation

[@dafniscrema1914]

Amazing work from all teachers, it's so beautiful the job of spreading knowledge, and more so when it's something so introspective like making music. You guys deserve all the respect in the world. I've got in contact with electronic music when I started university, before that I played traditional instruments too, but I never really felt comfortable with the traditional ways of learning music, so I quickly got discouraged. I think of how helpful and time-saving would have been to have an electronic music class in high school. Congrats to all the team in Ableton too, this kind of content is really amazing.

[@soundboy605]

Lovely to see that the push one has been recycled for a good cause well done Ableton good shout!

[@nithishaloks.r2411]

Namah Shivay, Awesome Creation By Students, with Guidence from Ableton Musicians and Team Towards Creativity in Music with Modern Technology, Thanks to Ableton Team and Technology Development

[@deploynz]

Big ups to the teachers 💫🙏

[@MrHardrock]

It shows how much you need to know about electronic music. A whole different animal than traditional music theory.

[@MrHardrock]

@@dolcemusica4832 you are learning computer and how to create sound vs putting your finger on a guitar to learn chords

[@lintojoevarghese104]

Dear Ableton , There are many aspiring musicians in india .But most of them are not able to acheive their dreams because of the society which is holding them back and the financial issues .Most of the aspiring ones cant afford the price of audio equipments .In addition the current system of education does not allow or want us to be creative .Book eaters are praised here .Creative people doesnt have any role in this society.People see it as a waste of time and money . Iam requesting you as a repesentative of some group of aspiring musicians from india to conduct a webinar inoder to support us to acheive our dreams . I believe that you will help us Yours faithfully An aspiring musician (Ableton user)

[@mananchaturvedi6173]

💯💯

[@clefcreations305]

❤️💯💯

[@ramdevgehlot4317]

me too ableton user from india.... and i have no equipment except a low end laptop😞 i want a piano keyboard to learn piano... i want a laptop that caan run ableton

[@lintojoevarghese104]

@@ramdevgehlot4317 If ableton notices our issue they will surely support us

[@ramdevgehlot4317]

@@lintojoevarghese104 may be

[@SteveRawcliffe]

Would love to hear more of what these students were producing.

[@GuidoGautsch]

This makes me very happy. Just wish all kids could have these opportunities but it's coming.

[@cstoomey]

This makes me so happy to see.

[@georgesoros7849]

Great video. I think the best addition for education purpose will: Adding hosting & Crash Protection, Plug-in Nap alternative (as Studio One have) And Score Note Editor. And remember you are gorgeous.

[@ベーコンのおやつミュージック]

この映像と音楽が美しいのもすごいいいなあ

[@joshua5887]

I would love to teach music production this way! So cool 😎

[@mtd3v]

Amazing. Hat's off.

[@thisisokmusic3721]

Amazig, it's so lovely to see that...

[@shunpillay]

Very inspiring. Awesome video.

[@SteveRawcliffe]

"Hard to measure, so not done so much" One of the big problems with school and education systems everywhere.

[@LTO1119]

This is beautiful

[@ombracle]

This is so beautiful! ✨

[@Mafyoutube]

Cool!

[@johntheshaman]

I like this a lot

[@onizmik5416]

great video

[@DK-qe6uo]

Man I wish I had this when I was in high school

[@rae835]

love this!

[@bllymusic9614]

This is so amazing.

[@JohnSmith-pn2vl]

awesome!

[@kyrregjerstad]

Wow, wish I had this!

[@Wavywahid]

I wish my music class was like this back then. My music class sucked. They didnt even teach us any instruments

[@justduit1879]

We need synchronization with scale support either with Melodyne or with a new program invented like VariAudio 3 as it is done in Cubase 11 and Studio One 5 This is simply necessary for most musicians, since in order to edit the pitch of the vocals, we have to run another DAW... Do it and you will have no equal, just LISTEN FOR ONCE

[@Ableton]

Hi, thanks for the feedback, we forwarded it accordingly! Make sure to also sign up on our Centercode Forum where you can share your suggestions with our developing team directly: bit.ly/2doYK8b Cheers!

[@squealinghog6107]

I wish this was a course in my college!

[@kollias_music]

This a great effort and Kudos to Ableton on reporting those people contributing to the community and young kids future. But I still do not understand how we are in 2021 and Ableton has excluded the option of music notation (still to-date the most detailed representation of music), but it is solely a naive midi roll DAW. If we consider Ableton Live the DAW-instrument of the next generation's main education, maybe this is something Albeton should rethink and finally introduce.

[@MrRhodesMusic]

Brilliant

[@gregdearmond3309]

I really like the video, but I do enjoy listening to operas and more classical music as well as the electronic and digital side of things

[@miltonline]

Enjoying music is not mutually exclusive - we should embrace it all!

[@GuidoGautsch]

I think the important part is that kids are shown that isn't just classical performance but that they can make music that THEY love too. Not to say that they don't like classical or operas, they might, but you reach kids with other things first, let them fall in love with medium and then expand their horizons.

[@gregdearmond3309]

@@GuidoGautsch I think other types of music are more popular but I jam pretty hard to pictures or the artunian concerto, electronic music is also good and should not be belittled in music school because there is definitely money to be made doing it, just saying i didnt like the way the video make classical music seem like the enemy during a few of the interviews

[@NynjaDoom]

Holy shit I live in Kettering Ohio right now that’s really cool.

[@Renaxelo]

this is freakin fun school.

[@RCAVDH]

I'm still rocking the push one too.

[@treyhudson73]

I want to do THIS. I have an 11 year old and most of her friends would jump at a chance to learn music the way I make it.

[@Steolepandaxiongmao]

Awesome video!

[@nicolasb7]

same here in latinoamerica we have a push for student in the the school, cool

[@bradquirke2737]

Go Mel🤩

[@Themusicbiz]

Amazing

[@osbel7052]

Hermoso

[@monstalung]

inspired.

[@patch002]

If only my generation had this opportunity..so many lost souls..

[@saber5401]

Education is another word for programming, at least the way it has been used.

[@lockedinfaded]

I would like to see that kind of high school im my country

[@NewKilnStudios]

Big up!

[@sithari6136]

i wish my school teaches this

[@freechu44games]

GO BARBARA FREEDMAN!

[@barbarafreedman1780]

Thank you!

[@guesstaccount]

i love ableton so much cause of shit like this. also fun fact i have their logo tattooed on my arm 😂

[@TheLudema]

👏🏼❤

[@filippostk5736]

where tf is this school..... awesome job you guys

[@juwonnnnn]

👌

[@HappyFarmerMG]

Sick

[@martinrobaldo9573]

💘🎹

[@andreygubin7160]

Я в шоке от увиденного. В России такое невозможно.

[@nikulmmadhu6566]

So is in india.

[@lockedinfaded]

В Латвии тоже самое

[@andreygubin7160]

@@lockedinfaded сочувствую

[@AEOuriel]

mel!!!