AVB: Music with Youth

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For two years in Rhode Island, I served as the Music Director of the Boys and Girls Club working with disadvantaged inner-city youth. I gave music lessons and worked with them to compose and perform their own music.

Fall Back Live-band Hip-Hop. The song that won my students the Mulit-state annual Battle of the Bands in Rhode Island. The kids are playing all the instruments, and wrote all the music and lyrics themselves. Aged 10-12.	Heavy Sugar Two Guitars. Metal. A student and I performing our own heavy metal duet version of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy." Aged 14.	All the Kids Up in the Club Recorded Hip-Hop. One of the first songs the kids did with me at the BGC. Aged 8-10.
Leaving Live-band Hip-Hop. Another song written by 10-12 yr old group "The Red Keys." This is a song they wrote when their friend was moving away, and then an altered verse for when I was returning to Canada.	DDT Inc. Rap. Aged 10-12.	All New Rap. Aged 13-14.
Fire Hip-hop. A track by a young rapping and singing prodigy Alyssa, aged 14.	Punk Night A student and I performing our own punkified version of "Silent Night." Aged 15.	I Need Some Time R'n B. Aged 10-11.
Cause We Hot Rap. The young rap group "Lil' Soldierz". Aged 10-12.	My Crib Live-band Hip-Hop. One of the first band scenarios with the kids at the BGC. They are playing all the instruments and singing and rapping. Aged 10-12.	Old School Rap. Teens, aged 15-18.
Sick Wit Da Flow Rap. Aged 10-12.	Wally's Symphony Rap. Teen student Walter, rapping. Aged 14.	How We Do Rap. Lil' Soldierz with some friends, aged 10-12.