Background

Youth Music have partnered with Charanga to offer funded partners free access to Charanga’s award-winning YuStudio platform. 

YuStudio is a digital learning platform and creative music suite - accessible via any internet browser - with three elements:

• YuStudio: a beginner-friendly online music studio, otherwise known as a digital audio workstation or DAW for short;
• VIP Studio Sessions: an award-winning programme of tutorial videos exploring contemporary genres, music technology and production using YuStudio;
• Yumu: a secure online space through which young people access YuStudio, personalised projects and resources, and save and share music they've created in the DAW.

YuStudio explores contemporary genres, music technology and production. Users can work through a series of video tutorials to learn how to create music and develop their tracks using the in-built music production tools. They can also use the DAW to experiment with their own music.

All Youth Music-funded partners (who hold a current Youth Music grant) are eligible for a free Charanga YuStudio licence for the full duration of their project. Once your organisation has a licence you can create logins directly for the young people and practitioners involved in your project. 

The VIP Module

VIP's video tutorials typically follow a six-week approach. Beyond this, users can go more deeply into a unit to refine their compositions and explore music production in greater depth. Tips and advice from artists and industry professionals, and practical resources for project leaders will be added to the module soon. 

Charanga's digital Bronze Arts Award portfolio

A groundbreaking new interactive Bronze Arts Award portfolio will be made available to all Youth Music-funded partners using Charanga YuStudio.

Young people can upload a range of audio/visual file formats onto the portfolio as Arts Award evidence and use the space to document their journeys.

Music leaders who are Arts Award advisers can monitor and support a young person or group's progress using the platform's secure two-way messaging function.

Once a portfolio is completed, they can also generate a unique URL enabling young people to share their work externally as part of a CV, for example. This also means that the Arts Award moderation process can take place outside the Charanga platform.

Youth Music-funded partners with a Charanga YuStudio licence also have access to a special Charanga Bronze Arts Award discount code reducing the usual £25 moderation fee to £20.50 per young person.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please email artsaward@charanga.com.