Spring 2027

Teaching Popular Instrumental Music 2

Teaching Popular Instrumental Music 2 develops pedagogical skills for teaching instrumental popular music, focusing on percussion, electronics, and emerging production technologies.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Burton Hable

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.71 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.89 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Develop skills associated with digital audio workstations (DAWS), including inputting MIDI, manipulating audio files, and recording.

  • Examine and implement pedagogies of popular music associated with DAWs.

  • Critically interrogate issues of power and identity (including race, gender, class, and ability) in music education and schooling through popular music.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

Grade history

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Prerequisites

Course map

Declared in Music: Education BM and sophomore standing

    • Declared in Music: Education BM
    • sophomore standing
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CURRIC/MUSIC 421

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  • All of
    • Declared in Music: Education BM
    • sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027
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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 00
LAB 001Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.71 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.89 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

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Topics

  • Popular percussion instruments and electronic counterparts
  • Emerging technologies for performance and production
  • Power, identity, race, gender, class, and ability in music education

Skills

  • Critical perspectives, musical knowledge, and pedagogical skills for teaching instrumental popular music
  • Digital audio workstation skills including MIDI input, audio file manipulation, and recording
  • Implementation of popular music pedagogies associated with DAWs
  • Critical interrogation of power and identity issues in music education through popular music

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Catalog & offerings

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CURRIC/MUSIC 421 · Spring 2027

Teaching Popular Instrumental Music 2

Recorded 2026-10-14
CURRIC/MUSIC 421 · Spring 2027

Teaching Popular Instrumental Music 2

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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