Work as a production team of artist/artists and producer to perform and record music on a DAW, demonstrating some basic skills of communicating instructions and keeping in time with the click track

All learners should be provided with opportunities for paired working. By creating music with others, they are likely to:

• increase their motivation and interest
• quicken their rate of progress
• widen their performing skills
• improve their personal and social skills

With carefully differentiated parts, even those at the earliest stages of learning can enjoy the sense of achievement of creating recorded music collaboratively.

This can be tricky if learners are not used to playing in time. Stick with it and insist upon good timing; it is better to capture a good performance than ‘fix it in the mix’.