Lasean is a seventh-grader at Pershing Middle School in Houston, TX.  He amazes his audiences track after track, live and in the studio.  He dominates the Southwest electronic symposium with his brilliant production skills, instincts in musicality, ear for overtones and rhythms as well as an overall emotional connectivity to the world around him.  There is no limit to what he can do!  Listen and prepare to have your mind blown!

LaSean MLK Remix (7th Grade Music Production)

Madison is an 8th grade music production/band student who is also teaching herself to play guitar!  She has other tracks up here on Soundcloud...check them out!

Madison 'Crept' 8th Grade Music Production

Julie is an up-and-coming artist in music production.  Enjoy this chilling ensemble of spooky sounds!

'Spooky Sounds' Julie F. 7th Grade Intermediate Music Production

Luis C 7th Grade Intermediate Music Production

Alix P is a 6th grader at Pershing & is rocking it in music production class!  She is learning so much, her tracks will only get better!  Watch out for this one!  She's got so much talent...Enjoy :)

Super Mario Bros. Theme Remix Pershing Music Production Alix P 6th Grade

Aaron is a 6th grader in music production class and has so much talent!  He is going to make so many more tracks like these, can't wait to see what's next!  Check out this awesome remix of a classic video game theme song!

Pershing Music Production Super Mario Bros Theme Remix Aaron J 6th Grade

Maurice, Young Jae and Baby Nick Free-styling over Beck samples.  

Heck Yes Featuring Maurice Young Jae and Baby Nick

Julian has been taking music production for 3 years at Pershing.  He has gone through beginner, intermediate and advanced music production and as you can hear, he really enjoys making dubstep!  Every time this dude cuts a track it gets better and better!  Please enjoy :)

'Upbeat Style' Julian 8th Grade Advanced Music Production

Toby has been studying music production for 2 years.  This is probably one of his absolute greatest tracks ever!  This advanced music production class really brought the ruckus this year! Enjoy :)

'Too Much Trouble' Toby 8th Grade Advanced Music Production

Alyssa is an eighth grader at Pershing and used the song 'Walking On a Dream' by Empire of the Sun to create this remix from scratch!  She played all of the parts herself :) Enjoy!

'Walking On A Dream' Remix Alyssa 8th Grade Adv. Music Production

This is Naomi's first project on Soundcloud, but something tells me it certainly won't be her last!  Students like her remind me every day why I get up and teach music production, because it's the best!  Please enjoy :)

'Random' By Naomi 7th Grade Intermediate Music Production

Khalil has a good sense for arranging audio.  What can you say about such young talent? I think this one speaks for itself! Enjoy :)

'Gone Through Time' Khalil 8th Grade Intermediate Music Production

This original dubstep song by Jason and Julian was debuted today at the Houston House of Blues for the IHOBF Talent Show Youth Recital.  They created this song under the name JB2.  Using Novation Launchpads they were able to really amp this one up live on stage at the House of Blues...TO LEARN HOW TO GET US AN ABLETON PUSH CONTROLLER, PLEASE VISIT: www.donorschoose.org/mark.wurtzel Any amount donated will help us get Push!  Enter code: INSPIRE and DonorsChoose will match your donation! Thank you :)

'JBase' By JB2 Jason & Julian Advanced Music Production 8th Grade

Pershing Middle School is a magnet fine arts school located in Houston, TX.  Students of Pershing study all aspects of music production including composition and live performance using mostly Ableton Live Suite 8 and a fully loaded midi/audio lab.  The music production program at Pershing is the first of its kind and continues to serve as a model for future programs in public schools all over the United States.  *Sign the petition to save this and other art/music programs in public schools:

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