Music Production & Songwriting · Grades 9–12
Music Production I is a complete, 36-week high school course. Students write, produce, and release their own music in a real studio — and every one of them finishes the year with an EP they can play you and defend, choice by choice.
Built for schools: our music engine is written from music theory — it trains on nobody's music — and every track shows what the student wrote.
COPPA & FERPA-ready · Google Classroom integration · National Core Arts (NAfME) aligned
“make a sad trap beat in A minor”
808s, hat rolls, a dark minor loop — in seconds
…and Conductor explains why minor keys feel sad.
“give me gospel chords that feel like Sunday”
I–IV–I–V with real gospel extensions and a walk-up
…and shows how 7ths and 9ths create that warmth.
“the bass is too loud in the second half”
Conductor finds it and fixes exactly those bars
…and tells you what it changed, in plain English.
The course
Music Production I runs the way real artistry runs: every six weeks ends with something finished, and by June the portfolio speaks for itself.
Unit 1 · Weeks 1–6
Make something real before you learn what it's called
Finishes withA finished, produced first track — made, named, and shared in week six.
Unit 2 · Weeks 7–12
Rhythm is a language — learn six dialects
Finishes withA three-beat tape spanning three genres, with liner notes on each groove.
Unit 3 · Weeks 13–18
Why chords make people feel things
Finishes withAn original instrumental with a verse and a chorus a listener can tell apart blindfolded.
Unit 4 · Weeks 19–24
Now say something
Finishes withA complete original song — written, arranged, and produced start to finish.
Unit 5 · Weeks 25–30
The distance between a song and a record
Finishes withA re-produced, polished version of your Unit 4 song — the before/after is the grade.
Unit 6 · Weeks 31–36
You're not a student with assignments. You're an artist with a release.
Finishes withA released 3-track EP with cover art, credits, and a listening-event premiere.
Theory worksheets ask teenagers to care about music they've never heard. This course flips it: start with the record they want to make, and the theory becomes the thing they need next.
01
No prerequisite theory, no semester of setup. Week 1 of the course ends with every student's first produced track — because the student who ships something real in the first class shows up differently for the rest of the year.
02
Syncopation arrives while they're building a groove. Cadences arrive while their chorus won't land. Every concept in the standards, taught at the moment a student actually needs it.
03
A first track. A beat tape. An instrumental. A song. A re-production. An EP with a premiere. Six finished artifacts a year — a portfolio, not a gradebook of worksheets.
In the studio
🧑🎓 why does my chorus sound empty?
🎼 Your melody and bass share the same octave, and every note hits at the same volume. Want me to lift the melody an octave and shape the dynamics?
🧑🎓 yes — and make it hit harder
🎼 Done. I raised the melody, added a crescendo into the chorus, and doubled the kick. Here's why that works…
For teachers & schools
Music Production I slots into a master schedule the way schools actually adopt curriculum: a named, year-long, standards-aligned course — with the studio, lessons, assessment, and gradebook already wired together.
A numbered week-by-week scope and sequence for the whole year — objectives, studio work, and the theory concept for every single week. Walk in Monday and teach.
Auto-graded theory checks with instant, explanatory feedback. Scores land in your gradebook, and a per-concept mastery dashboard shows you exactly what to reteach.
Import your roster in one click — no join codes, no new passwords. Push grades straight back to your Classroom gradebook.
Students hand in real studio projects. You open the actual multi-track piece, press play, view it as notation, and grade while you listen.
The year ends with a listening event: every student premieres a 3-track EP they wrote and produced themselves — then plays their week-1 track next to it. The distance between those two recordings is the transcript.
The flagship
36 weeks, six units, six finished records. Browser studio, curriculum, assessment, and gradebook — runs on Chromebooks, nothing to install.
Also included
Standards-aligned units and theory games for elementary and middle school feed the pipeline — so the students arriving in your program have already made music with Conductor.
Conductor is built by a 20-year music educator who directs rock band and music production programs — and runs this course with real students. Every week of the plan, every quiz, and every studio tool is shaped by an actual classroom, not a demo.
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