Modern Music in Music (School)

[Gibs960]

Ok, I'm posting this because today we did a bit modern music, we did Cheryl Cole - Fight for this love, and a lot of people enjoyed the lesson, do you think we should do more modern music is music lessons. I for one think we should as it would get more people involved in music and music studies, who agrees with me.

[Technologic]

I know somebody who, for their GCSE coursework, made a breakbeat track lol and also did a load of jungle drumming

[AgnesIO]

It is great to learn different variety's of music.

May I point out at GCSE you do, do 'modern music'.

[samsaBEAR]

When I did music back in the day all we learnt was like the Jurassic Park theme tune and ******** like that. We never learnt anything to do with music, just songs to play on the keyboard. Total waste of time

[Gibs960]

I know you do them for GCSEs but not a lot of people get interested in them enough to get into them, we did a reasonable song, but we didn't really focus that much on the song. So that was my whole take on the matter. :D

[AgnesIO]

I know you do them for GCSEs but not a lot of people get interested in them enough to get into them, we did a reasonable song, but we didn't really focus that much on the song. So that was my whole take on the matter. :D

People shouldn't really take GCSE music if they were not interested in music in the FIRST place.

[-K8T!E-]

In music in my school we never do new music, nothing on new music on the junior cert course. It doesnt bother me too much though.

[joshuar]

That lesson would be my worst nightmare, I don't even know what that song sounds like but the fact you said Cheryl Cole puts me off it straight away as I've heard she does R 'n' B.

But, I think a mix of old and new is needed. If you want to become a serious musician, you need to know the history to it so you know where things come from.

[Grig]

This question can be seen in a number of ways, as 'music' has different genres. I think MORE genres are needed from the ages. For if you talk about modern music, I can talk about some recently released classic genred song, even though most people will argue classical music is not important in this age, I think there is still a fan base for it.

Hence, as I echoed earlier- more musical genres would be good through different centuries etc.

[Gibs960]

I think what Grig said just about sums everything up,

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