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PEYTON IVEY, BECKETT SCHMEIL, PAULINE CALDWELL, AND TOBE CHANOW
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Table of Contents About the Features
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Hip Hop Though Time
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The Guide To Hip Hop
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Modern Music and how it’s Changed
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Charts About EDM and It’s Musical Subgenres The Motions of Austin’s Music Scene
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Prices of Concerts Chart
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Children and Music
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What Music you Should Listen To
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Where Are Some Music School’s In ATX
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Letter From the Editors
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The Samsung Stage at Austin City Limits BOOSTED 3 in 2015 (Ralph Arvesen/2015)
THE FEATURES
What’s In The Magazine Hip Hop Through Time Page 6 By: Beckett Schmeil This article contains an in-depth look on how Hip Hop has changed over the years. It focuses the aspects of Hip Hop as well as how it has modernized along with computerized music. This article makes connections between the music of the past, the music of the present, and the music of the future. Containing information from Jeff McCord, Thana Mclain, and Randy Franklin this article covers all aspects of modern Hip Hop. Hip Hop artist Tupac poses for a picture. (Zennie Abraham/2011)
Modern Music Tools Page 12 By: Tobe Chanow This article goes over music production and how it has changed. It contains information about how music production has become more computerized and ties the theme in the the music genre of EDM, electronic dance music. Following this artivle, thre is a detailed descripition of the subgenres of EDM on page 16. It contains information from Javi Arregondo, Ashton Wong, and Patrick Connor. A dj performs at a concert. (Patrick Savalle/2004)
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The Motions Of Austin’s Music Scene Page 18 By: Pauline Caldwell This article focuses on Austin’s music community and the festivals that take place in Austin. It focuses on ACL as well as many of the other musical opportunities that Austin has to offer. This article is a great way to get to know the ups and downs of Austin music. With interviews from Jesper Reginal, Zoe Czarnecki, and Jessie Johnson, this article will be sure to satisfy you. Childish Gambino performs at SXSW in 2014. (Daniel Benavides/2014)
Children And Music Page 24 By: Peyton Ivey This article contains information about how children are taught music in Austin. It goes over two music schools in Austin: Don’t Stop Rockin’ and the Lone Star School of Music. It also features two schools with outstanding music programs: Baldwin Elementary School and Gorzycki Middle School. With interviews from Mandi McCasland, Tabetha Horn, James King, and Deja Waymer this article is full of information and tips on music schools and teaching music. Performing Paint it Black by The Rolling Stones, the band The Hotshots performs their third song at the Rusty Mule during the big show. Lucas (right) and Avery (left) perform the song on guitar. (Peyton Ivey/2017)
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TOP RAPPERS OF 2017 1. Kendrick Lamar 2. Drake 3. Travis Scott 4. Quavo 5. Migos 6. Chance The Rapper 7. Young Thug 8. Lil Uzi Vert 9. Playboi Carti 10. A$AP Rocky
TOP RAPPERS OF ALL TIME 1. 2Pac 2. Biggie Smalls 3. Nas 4. Jay-Z 5. Rakim 6. Andre 3000 7. Lauryn Hill 8. Ghost Face Killah 9. Kendrick Lamar 10. Lil Wayne
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By Tobe Chanow
And How They’ve Changed
he popularity of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is growing exponentially. The genre has become one of the most popular in the world, rivaling Hip Hop and Rap. With this evolution of sound came a evolution of technology, causing a burst of new musical tech. The recent development in musical equipment is changing the way music sounds and is created forever. EDM is performed worldwide by many artists, some known all over the world and some only known by a few. Big artists like Deadmau5 and Martin Garrix rival for the top charts. They also often appear on the radio with their electro-pop and dance songs. Though many believe that EDM first
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came about during the 21st century, according to odyssey.com, EDM originated during in the 1960s. The website adds that EDM started out as a collection of subgenres and really caught hold in the twentieth century. That’s when EDM started on its main course of evolution — with the advancement of
modern technology. When Disc Jockeys (DJs) first started performing with the rise of EDM, they performed illegal “raves”. These raves consisted of teenagers and young adults dancing to EDM in abandoned warehouses. It wasn’t until EDM got a real
foothold in modern music that DJ’s could perform at festivals and concerts. DJs started out using turntables and mixers which remained their tool until computers became popular. Each DJ would have two turn tables which were just portable record players. The turntables would be wired to the mixer so all sound went through the mixer. The mixer was what allowed DJs to add effects to their music and the turntables allowed DJs to play music. Mixers are still used today but turntables are not. The problem with turntables was that they are just record players. Record players had many disadvantages. DJs would have to haul around four or five crates of records to every gig. Professional DJ, Javi Arredondo, described the work as heavy and back breaking just to get the crates from his car to the stage. Arredondo said there were a lot of obstacles. “Different parties or clubs, needles bouncing around and record skipping and this constant love hate relationship with the turntable.” Another disadvantage of records was
how hard it was to start a song at a certain point called a cue point. Cue points can be placed at any point in a song that you would like to start playing that song from. People would place cue points so that they could easily find that spot during a performance. On a computer you can create a cue point with a few clicks of the mouse,
“It made you work alot more, now it’s just so much easier” but it was much harder when it came to records. On records you would have to play the song until you found the point you were looking for and place a sticker on the record. The edge of the sticker would have to line up perfectly with where you wanted the song to start. That way you could drop the needle on the turntable right on the edge and it would be in the right spot. “It made you work a lot more, now it is just so much easier to mix,” says Arredondo when commenting on these disadvantages.
With modern DJ softwares, like Serato & Traktor, all DJs need is a laptop and headphones when coming to a gig. Most clubs provide controllers so the DJ can hook up their laptop and mix. Arredondo recollects, “we used to go into a gig, I would have to haul in four crates, five crates vinyl which is heavy, back breaking, from your car or wherever you park.” All the music they could ever need they have on the computer. The softwares allow that music to be organized, easily accessible and easily played. The software can also do extra things, such as adding different effects to the song, changing the songs tempo or key, or even syncing two songs so that they are played on beat together. Arredondo said “With a computer, all 5000 songs are there, you know that they’re there at any given time, any request, anything, it’s gonna be there. So that’s the main thing that’s helped out gigging every weekend.” EDM is not only DJs though. What about the people creating the actual music? The people who create electronic music are called music producers.
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There are two types of producers: laptop producers and studio producers. Laptop producers produce their music with a laptop, headphones or speakers and a Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) controller. Studio producers use a full music studio with instruments, recording equipment and anything they want to record. Patrick Connor, a professional producer, says you can get started as a producer for a lot cheaper now. He said “You can make professional level beats” while spending far less money.
great for working with audio because of its easy to use recording features and its audio workflow. Now, even though Pro-Tools is still used, softwares like Ableton Live and FL Studio are the most popular. Ableton Live is great for recording live with MIDI controllers while FL Studio is known for the software synths and sounds that are on the computer. A MIDI controller is
“It made you work a way to play music alot more, now it’s using a computer. They often look like just so much easier” keyboards but they
The three things that have evolved the most for producers are softwares, MIDI controllers and synthesizers. Music production softwares or Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) range in prices and varieties, but through the test of time a few have always been the most popular. When producing music first gained popularity almost everybody used a DAW called Pro-Tools which was made by AVID. Pro-Tools was
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will not play any sounds on their own. All the sounds they play are in the DAW that the producer is using. A MIDI controller can also control other parts of a DAW like volume and effects. MIDI controllers started out as just keyboards but evolved into much more. Now they often have knobs and sliders for controlling effect and volumes and some have small buttons or pads. Each small pad would make a different sound when touched allowing a producer to
effectively drum with their fingers.
headphone jack.
Connor believes “portability and ease of use are probably the best things for your equipment�. He thinks these are the most important traits for a beginner’s software.
Connor states that music production technology gives him more creative liberty and options to produce new, unique sounds.
Synthesizers are very similar to MIDI controllers except the sounds are created by the synth and no computer is necessary. Synthesizers originated before MIDI controllers but the two have a very similar evolutionary path. Synths started out as keyboards with knobs to edit the sound. Now they have pads as well and some are even battery powered with speakers built in, along with a
These developments make synths very portable so they can be used anywhere. Some synths even have full DAWs built into them. Music is evolving at a constant rate. Some changes make it harder on producers and some changes make it easier. All these changes allow for a diverse platform for people to share their ideas and creations.
A music producers studio with a recording booth, six speakers, a pegboard and more. (pexels.com/Andrew Walton/2017)
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HIP H OP G
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SUBGENRES OF EDM
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HOUSE Stlyes: New York Chicago Funk House Acid House Tech House Ambient House Deep House Tribal Balearic Beat Progressive Micro French House Electro House Fidget BREAKS Stlyes: Liquid Funk Neuro Funk Breakcore Progressive Broken Beat Drum & Bass Big Beat Nu Skool Breaks Jungle Happy Hardcore Funky Breaks Breakbeat TECHNO Stlyes: Electro Detroit Techno Minimal Acid Techno Ambient Techno Dub Techno
HARDCORE Stlyes: Hardtek Hardcore Breakbeat Hardcore French Core Gabber Schranz Industrial Hardcore Speed Core Hardstyle Doomcore Trancecore HIP HOP Stlyes: Wonky Glitch Hop Turntablism Instrumental Chop M Screwed Trip Hop Jazz Hop East Coast Rap Hip Hop DOWNTEMPO Stlyes: Chillwave Psybient Nu Jazz Acid Jazz IDM Illbient Chill Out Ambient
GARAGE Stlyes: UK Funky UK Bass Dubstep Grime Future Garage 2 Step UK Garage INDUSTRIAL Stlyes: Aggrotech Power Noise New Beat Electro Industrial Power Electronics Industrial Dance Industrial DISCO Stlyes: Disco Classic Space DIsco Electro Pop Synthpop Hi-nrg Italo Disco Electro Clash Nu Disco TRANCE Stlyes: Goa Trance Classic Trance Acid Trance Psy Trance Tech Trance Uplifting BOOSTED 17
The Motions of Austins Music Scene By Pauline Caldwell
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People go to cities all over the world to discover their interests and try out their hobbies in different regions. While some go to cities to visit museums, others go to cities to find the best, most authentic restaurants. When in Austin however, people come to discover music and become more in touch with their folk music roots. Unlike places like New York, New York and Atlanta, Georgia, where they have a big scene for hip-hop and R&B, our small city of Austin tends to lean to alternative country and rock genres. People come to our city to experience the music festivals of Austin City Limits (ACL), and South by Southwest (SXSW). Since 2002, Austinites have been coming to Zilker Park in October to watch artists they love perform, and
“Hard work and a seriously good time. [It] is clear that Austin has a vibrant and strong local scene” since the first festival, where Ryan Adams and Arc Angles both played, it has only become more popular with people coming from all over the U.S. With world known artists like Jay-Z, DeadMaus, and Lana Del Rey having been, ACL has had more global visitors than ever, instead of just local Austinites. Jesper Reginal, also known as Yebo, who has been attending SXSW for the past 15 years, has been in multiple bands and even owns a record label with his partner. Jessie Johnson who is one of Waterloo’s spokesperson, describes SXSW as a music discovery festival, although those demographics have changed in the past few years.
Her contributions to SXSW include serving local Austinites by hosting free
Zoe Czarnecki, Austin, TX, taken in her backyard, Sunday, March 27, 2016, (Mia Czarnecki/2016)
shows in the parking lot of Waterloo Records, and making concerts kid and family friendly. Zoe Czarnecki, a musician in Austin is only a senior at Liberal Arts and Science (LASA) high school, and she already has been in two different bands. She will talk mostly about her experiences with how the music scene in Austin is a lot different than the music scene in other cities, production and collaboration wise. In the Waterloo interview with Jessie Johnson, we talked about the way people in Austin listen to music is changing, from LP’s, to cassette tapes, to CD’s, to digitally downloading music on their mobile devices, and now slowly trending back to LP’s and cas-
sette tapes. Since Johnson is one of the spokesperson for Waterloo Records, she also described how during SXSW, Waterloo treats their events like a public service. Some examples of artists that Waterloo has invited are Macklemore, Peaches, and Stevie Wonder, who have all played a few years back. By making their daytime lineup concerts free is also another way Waterloo makes their SXSW events more like a service to the public. Johnson started off talking about the kind of musicians that are invited to the SXSW Waterloo Records concerts. Something about Austin that some people might not know was that SXSW
Jessica Tolf Vulpius (Jessi), and Jesper Reginal, at the Crunchy Frog office, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 3, 2017.
first started off as a music discovery festival before it gained all the attention that it has now. So, because of this tradition, Waterloo always chooses at least a few small, local Austin bands to BOOSTED 19
Jessie Johnson, Austin, TX, Waterloo Records, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2017, (Ilori Caldwell/2017). She is holding the lp record of a band that will be performing at Waterloo later on this year.
play so that they can have more concert experience, and practice being in front of a bigger crowd than they might be used to. As well as serving to their concerts to locals, they also do want the big-name artists to come, people like Stevie Wonder and Macklemore. This is so that they still keep all of their popularity, even when they invite the less known artists. “We do try to pick some bands that are just starting off, and expose them to a new audience, [ ] and we want that audience to be younger.” While Jessie works like more of coordinator of SXSW, Jesper Reginal and Zoe Czarnecki have both been to dozens of SXSW concerts, and have also performed there. While it’s 20 BOOSTED
not normal for Jesper to sign people in Austin, him and his company go to “expand our network with music business people from all over the world [ ] find new partners, licensees and sub publishers etc.” He still enjoys the energy that SXSW brings to Austin, even though some years, it is can be more of a business trip than a music festival. Even though SXSW has so many bands from all over the world, and is all about international music discovery, Jesper tries to “ catch at least 1 or 2 local bands as well.” It is clear that Jesper has a special spot in his heart for Austin including everyone and everything he is able to see here. “To me SXSW means meeting old and new friends in the business. Hard work and a seriously
“We sign bands that are local to us, and try to promote them and their music to the world” good time [ ] is clear that Austin has a vibrant and strong local scene, and a lot of austin bands have made it big or even huge outside of the local scene,” he said. Even though Austin has been changing within the music interests of its constant flow of new residents, Jesper says it hasn’t affected his stay here or views of Austin. Since he doesn’t typically sign bands in Austin, but instead more in Copenhagen and other
parts of northern Europe, the changing music demographics of Austin don’t really change the way he has always enjoyed SXSW. “We sign bands that are local to us, and try to promote them and their music to the world - and SXSW is very central to that pursuit,” he said. While Jessie Johnson and Jesper Reginal have very specific outlooks on SXSW, Zoe Czarnecki has varying views on the music community of Austin, since starting her first band in seventh grade. She started off playing in a band called Grace London, then Grace, the future lead singer of Misimplicity joined, and then in 2016, it was officially named Misimplicity. While Zoe isn’t exactly sure about what the band’s overall popularity in Austin was since it ended in mid 2017, she did notice that it was a lot harder than in other cities to collaborate and showcase with other bands. Because Austin has a much more competitive music business, bands are less likely to be open with their music production and collaborative values. Although she took it back during the interview, she said that “people talk about how Austin is kind of a weird place uh, collaboratively [ ] and how in other places like, bands will like work more together, and [ ] play more shows like together. And [ ] you’d get like, like groups of bands coming out of like [ ] 3 or 4 [ ] who are kind of [ ] coming out of one place kind of together [ ] And in Austin, that’s not really [ ]Well, okay, I don’t know. It’s weird because when you are in any place, people are gonna complain about it.”. With that said however, Zoe Czarnecki is grateful to Austin for being so nurturing to young musicians and always having a place to go for music lovers.
“To see a band that’s just starting off gain and popularity, and feel like you had something to do with that” Since Zoe Czarnecki was eight years old, she has been playing the electric bass. When entering middle school at Kealing, she also learned how to play the double bass, which she still plays in the honors orchestra of LASA. When starting both of her bands, it was never about getting better at the instrument she played, but it was about making music with the instrument. In her most recent band, Misimplicity, she played the electric bass, and some backup vocals, while Grace wrote all of the songs and did the most singing.
“Misimplicity is a band I really cared about [ ] because [ ] I really believe in Grace as an artist and I really believe in her song writing [ ] it felt really special to be like apart of her like artistic vision.” Throughout the article there have been different outlooks over three different people’s perspectives on people’s views and experiences in Austin, particularly considering SXSW and the music dilemma in general, it is apparent that Austin is unique. Whether it benefits someone or is holding someone from accomplishing their dreams, Austin will continue to impact others’ lives the way it has affected Johnson, Reginal, and Czarnecki. “To see a band that’s just starting off gain and popularity, and feel like you had something to do with that.” -- Johnson said.
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PRICES OF CONCERTS PIE CHARTS By: Pauline Caldwell
Key Hip-Hop
The Weeknd: ~$335 Beyonce: ~$294 Jay-Z: ~$180 Migos: ~$145 Drake: ~$145
Pop
Taylor Swift: ~$372.29 Ed Sheeran: ~$198 Calvin Harris: ~$191.75 Miley Cyrus: ~$151.96 The Chainsmokers: ~$114
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Martin Garrix: ~$125 Major Lazer: ~$93.46 David Guetta: ~$87 Tiesto: ~$45 Galantis: ~$30
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CHILDREN AND MUSIC A Look Into The Teaching Of Music By: Peyton Ivey
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n Austin Independent School District, students can start learning music as early as kindergarten. In sixth grade they can choose a specific fine art that they want to pursue. However, students in other regions of the country do not have that luxury. When children do not have access to music in their schools, they do not learn the valuable skills that music teaches them: improved academic, social and physical skills, improved self esteem, patience, and discipline. As more fine arts programs get cut around the country, many wonder how children will learn these valuable skills. In Austin, that is not an issue. Across town, music programs in public schools that influence the younger generation continue to thrive. Also, there are music schools in Austin created to help children learn music. These unique programs help introduce the younger generation of Austin to the community that is Austin music. Though different, these programs all exist with certain goals in mind: to teach children music, to form relationships, and to create a lasting impact on children through music.
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Ross F. Baldwin Elementary School opened seven years ago and has had a thriving music program ever since. Susan Stevens was the original music teacher at the school and created a strong music program in her time there. Now, Tabetha Horn is the music teacher at Baldwin and is following in her predecessor’s footsteps. “My school is amazing because I am following an outstanding music teacher,” Horn said. “She set up a really strong program.” The music program at Baldwin offers a music class to students from kindergarten to fifth grade. The program includes plenty of extra activities including a school choir, trips to the symphony, and school musicals. The program uses a mix of teaching styles that give each student a special learning experience that fits them. “My style blends elements of the Kodaly Method, which gives me structure, and Dalcroze Eurhythmics, which gets my kids moving and creating,” Horn said. “Because of my focus on Dalcroze Eurhythmics, each of my students has a unique experience when they come to music class.” The Kodaly method focuses on child-development, rhythm syllables,
rhythmic movement, rhythmic concepts, hand signals for memorization, and melodic sequences. This teaching style improves intonation, rhythm skills, music literacy, concept formation, and motor skills. The Dalcroze Eurhythmics
“Each of my students has a unique experience when they come to music class.” - Tabetha Horn combine rhythmic movement, ear training, and improvisation to better awaken, develop and refine your inner music skill. Horn believes it is important to teach and project self expression to her students to better prepare them for music in the future and to teach them the all around life lesson surrounding anticipation. She also finds importance in showcasing her love for fine arts to influence them in their opinion of music. Lastly, Horn believes in teaching all musical styles to give students a diverse music background. “I try to expose children to a variety of musical styles and I try to help students to connect with their sense of appreciation of music,” Horn said. Mandi McCasland also teaches a variety of music styles and musical instruments through her job as a band director. McCasland is the head band director at Gorzycki Middle School and has been teaching there since the school opened, nine years ago. McCasland feels that the most important thing in a school, music or not, is a sense of community within
its members. “Coming into Gorzycki, the biggest impression that they had on me was the sense of community that this school has,” McCasland said. McCasland also values accountability, an interest in your future, taking control of your own success, and knowing what success is to you. “The parents and the children, have a sense of ownership and they want to be successful, they know what success looks like, and they go for success, they care about what they are doing,”
Head band director at Gorzycki Middle School Mandi McCasland leads the school’s bands in a rendition of the song Funky Town by Lipps Inc. The bands performed this and 13 other songs at the Diane Gorzycki Tribute Concert on Oct. 23. (Peyton Ivey/2017)
McCasland said. “You don’t find that at other places, it’s just so nice to see parents and students really care deeply about how well they do.” McCasland also loves how teaching forms relationships. She loves seeing students years later and seeing how they have changed. “I just remember, I knew them in middle school when you know, they couldn’t see which way they were going and to see them major in engineering or music,” McCasland said. Some of her former students visit her through siblings, church, or just for fun
and McCasland enjoys getting to talk with them again. Lastly, McCasland loves when her students get excited to learn music because it reminds her of when she was kid and in the school band. McCasland has been interested in being a band director since she was eleven years old. She was pushed into band in the fifth grade by her parents and the school band director due to her love of music. She describes the moment she started playing her instrument, the trumpet, as BOOSTED 25
magical. “And so I opened up that case, that trumpet, for the very first time and I thought, this is it,” McCasland said. Even at a young age, McCasland knew that she loved music and wanted to have a future with it. “I found something I could do very well and I found a talent that God blessed me with,” McCasland said.
“And I thought, this is it.” - McCasland Teaching styles vary depending on the teacher, but McCasland believes that they also vary depending on the students in the class. She feels that each year she teaches differently. “It just depends on the group and their personality,” McCasland said. “I just kinda go with that, so I teach the same basic information, but how I deliver it depends on each group.” Another school that teaches based on the students is the Lone Star School of Music. It is an all inclusive music school that has four locations in Texas. The schools are located in Dripping Springs, Lakeway, Westlake, and on William Cannon Drive. Its primary purpose is to teach a love of music to its students. “The school was started by local musicians looking to give back to the community and to teach music and inspire young musicians,” Deja Waymer, the events manager at the school, said. The Lone Star School of music has many programs that are customized to benefit the students so that they can learn to their fullest potential. Concerts and lessons are based on the student’s
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availability and summer camps are organized around the students participating in them. Each teacher has undergone training to better work with students with down syndrome or on the Autism Spectrum. “Our school is unique in that we customize everything towards our students and their families,” Waymer said. “We want all our students feel cared for individually.” There are many other music schools in Austin that focus on relationships with students. Don’t Stop Rockin’ is a music school in south Austin that was started in 2010. It was created to engage kids in learning music, instead of spending time playing video games. “Rob and I were trying to decide why people would want to spend hours with their friends playing video games based around learning instruments and virtually rockin’ instead of picking up real instruments and actually Rockin’ ,” said James King, enrollment and scheduling director of the school. The staff and students of Don’t Stop Rockin’ are a close-knit group, a benefit of having a small school. Due to this connection, the school is more personalized. “Our location is relatively small (we’re a quality vs. quantity organization) and everyone knows each other,” King said. “We all know every student that walks through the door, their parents, siblings and family.” The teaching staff at Don’t Stop Rockin’ have years of musical and teaching experience and are more than qualified to teach music to students. In fact, one of the teachers at the school has won a grammy.
Some of the benefits of learning music are improved academic, social, and physical skills. Music also benefits self esteem, discipline, and patience. Don’t Stop Rockin’ works on these skills as well as many others. “We focus on perseverance, dedication and commitment,” King said. “These are traits that will be essential to people throughout their lives, no matter what they end up doing, music related or not.” These programs all teach children music, but each is unique and teaches in its own special way. However, they all are similar because they impact children in a way that will stay with them forever. They teach based on the students and work to form relationships with each student personally. They work to give students a musical education and to create a musical background that will last with students forever. The effects that music can have on you are priceless and the things you learn are irreplaceable. “Putting a killer riff together with a few chords, writing some lyrics and a melody and boom, you’ve created something original that belongs to you and the people you have created it with,” King said.“Magic baby, magic.”
“You’ve created something original that belongs to you and the people you have created it with, magic baby, magic.” -James King
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1. Reminding her students to smile, Tabetha Horn leads her students during their performance. Horn led the students in eight songs during the fifth grade musical on Nov. 16. (Peyton Ivey/2017) 2. Playing the drums, the drummer for the Hotshots performs Paint it Black with the band. (Peyton Ivey/2017) 3. Conducting the wind ensemble band at Gorzycki Middle school, Mandi McCasland, head band director, showcases the talents of her students. The wind symphony was performing (get song name) in tribute of the school’s namesake, Diane Gorzycki. (Peyton Ivey/2017) 4. Announcing the set list for the Hotshots, Rob Bentley, co-founder of Don’t Stop Rockin’, interacts with the audience. Bentley opened Don’t Stop Rockin’ in 2010 with James King. (Peyton Ivey/2017) 5. Performing in the Baldwin musical, Izzie Uresti sings a traditional English folk song. (Peyton Ivey/2017) 6. Playing the xylophone, Charli Haynes performs The Crane by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with her class in the fifth grade musical at Baldwin Elementary. (Peyton Ivey/2017) 7. Aiden, one of guitarists for the band the Hotshots, performs I Love Rock n Roll with his band on Nov. 4. The band had a four song set during the biannual show for Don’t Stop Rockin’. (Peyton Ivey/2017)
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WHERE ARE SOME MUSIC SCHOOLS? A Look Into Where Music is Taught In Austin By: Peyton Ivey
Key of Map Main Road: Smaller Road: 7
Music School: Music Schools: 1. Blue Frog School of Music
Schools With Music: 2. Baldwin Elementary School
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WHAT MUSIC Should You Listen To Right Now By: Peyton Ivey Are you over 60?
no no
Are you working?
ldies
Trying to sleep? yes
yes
yes
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nature s unds
Are you by yourself?
Working out?
Pop
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yes
yes Banjoes?
Rap?
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yes yes
Taylor Swift?
C o untry
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hip hop
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ROCK
Desk Work?
Reading?
Homework?
yes
Want to focus? yes
no
yes no
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C assical
Mozart?
C assical
hip hop
Pop
no
yes
yes
no
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a·m·b·i·e·n·t
a·m·b·i·e·n·t
Fast or slow? fast
Pop
slow
C o untry
Do you need to pay attention?
yes
Rap?
no yes
no
hip hop Pop
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THE BOOSTED TEAM
Meet The Editors: Peyton, Beckett, Pauline, and Tobe
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Peyton Ivey
Beckett Schmeil
Pauline Caldwell
Tobe Chanow
Layout Editor
Fact Editor
Photo Editor
Copy Editor
“I’m not a crazy vegan” -Peyton Ivey
“It’s like smile with a sh” -Beckett Schmeil
“I’m not white, I’m German” -Pauline Caldwell
“EDM is a language” -Tobe Chanow
Dear Reader, I am a freshman at LASA High school. Some things I enjoy are running, playing volleyball, and listening to music. My favorite class at LASA is yearbook because I really enjoys working with design, writing, taking photos, and making something that will last forever. For this magazine, I was the layout editor. I enjoyed this role because it ties in with my love of design. My all time favorite music artist is James Blunt because of his unique tone and message in his songs. I enjoyed writing about music because I always listen to music and now have a way to express how I feel about it. This magazine has taught me that creating an amazing product like a magazine is something worthwhile. Sincerely,
Dear Reader, I am an outgoing and adventurous freshman at LASA High school who enjoys hanging out with friends, playing sports, and making music. My favorite class at LASA is World Geography because Mr. Moody is super nice and layed back, and he also loves travel and learning about the world. I was the fact editor for this magazine and enjoyed this role because I enjoy doing research on things I find interesting. My favorite music artist is Frank Ocean because of his unique sound and personality. This magazine has taught me that if everybody works well together you can achieve great goals and have a great time while doing so. Sincerely,
Dear Reader, I am a passionate and caring freshman at LASA High school. My favorite class at LASA is world geography because it teaches us to question authority figures, and things in our society that we tend to assume as normal. I was the photo editor for this magazine and enjoyed this role because I am particular about making sure the aesthetic of an collection is prominent and visible. My favorite music artist is Beyoncé because of her unapologetic blackness, and the platform she has created for women to talk about self-empowerment. I enjoyed writing about music because it is something I find important for living a happy life. This magazine has taught her to not take the work and help of peers for granted. Sincerely,
Dear Reader, I am a hard working freshman at LASA High school. My favorite class at LASA is E-Zine because I enjoy expressing himself through graphic design. I also enjoy E-Zine because of the nice people in the class. I enjoy producing music and playing lacrosse. My favorite music artist is Major Lazer because of the great music they make and their talent. I was the content editor for this magazine and enjoyed this role because it allowed me to create something awesome. I enjoyed writing about music because music is a part of my every-day life. This magazine has taught me that designing is hard but worth it. If given the chance to make another issue of BOOSTED I would gladly accept. Sincerely,
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