Jason, a music teacher at my school has started using our iPads in his music lessons.

I popped in to have a look and I have to say it looked excellent. I wish I could have done this when I was at school. The kids really enjoyed it and could really see the value in using iPads in Music lessons.

When I spoke to a couple of students they told me that the iPad helped to develop their understanding of a rhythm.

Jason’s objectives for the lesson were:

• To understand how a step sequencer works – to understand how the screen is arranged in beats and how those beats are divided up
• To understand rhythm written in traditional notation – to prove understanding by reproducing that rhythm on the step sequencer
• To create own rhythm from scratch and to write it using traditional music notation