We had a great day at Music Alive today. We did some musical exercises designed to help us listen and feel music better, and we made our own drum circle. Then we learned about how music uses motives to create a sense of repetition and variety, including examples by Beethoven, Coldplay, U2, and the Dave Matthews Band. Finally, we got a chance to use a program called GarageBand to create music out of prerecorded loops. Here are some examples of what we created...