January 2008
Luke Smith Christmas Number One
Posted 10-01-08
Talented Year 13 student Luke Smith managed to reach top spot in the NUMU national music charts over the Christmas period. NUMU is a dedicated safe website space for young people to showcase their music, meet others and learn new skills. It is designed to support the Music curriculum across primary and secondary schools and integrates with the innovative learning approaches of Musical Futures.
The idea of the site is that students record their own compositions or cover versions of songs and upload them onto the site. Any time someone from anywhere in the world listens to their song via the website it is counted as a play, and for every play the recording moves up the chart.
Luke’s smooth clarinet version of ‘Mr. Bojangles’ scored a massive 340 hits in the week leading up to Christmas and showed his warm lyrical sound. For his efforts he receives a Roland CD2 Digital Recorder and the school also receive some score writing software.
The masterpiece was produced by fellow Year 13 student Rowan Upstone and recorded by Karl Peters and Zach Penrose in the school recording studio.
To put Luke’s achievement in context, there are over 100 schools that contribute music for the website. Waddesdon alone has over 40 songs uploaded onto the site and so to be number one at any time is huge. Year 12 students Karl Peters and Rebecca Neale have also recently featured in the top ten along with The School Brass Band.
Check out ‘Waddesdon Five Arrows Records’.
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