Now to Sierra Vista High School to find out more about a program that explores both the creative and business sides of the music industry.

Vegas PBS Media Crew member Ezekiel Day takes us inside SV Beats.

-Hi.

I'm Ezekiel Day from Sierra Vista High School, and I'm part of the Vegas PBS Media Crew.

Today I wanted to highlight the unique program offered to students here at Sierra Vista.

Many students who are interested in pursuing music as a career are often uncertain of how they can begin their journey.

That's where SV Beats come in.

It's a perfect program that will get your foot in the door in the music industry.

What is SV Beats?

(Shane Gibson) SV Beats is kind of like the overall encompassing of everything involved with making music.

So whether it's songwriting, performing, recording, the business side, social media, doing live sound, recorded sound, engineering, kind of the whole deal put together.

-What inspired the creation of SV Beats?

-We started off as a DJ music production club, because thats what my background was mostly in.

And then as we started meeting, we started to kind of build the curriculum for what ended up being the elective through what the wants and needs and desires of the students were.

-This is SV Beats.

For those who don't know, my name is-- -What inspired you to join SV Beats, and what do you enjoy most about the program?

(Quin Dottery) I'm not gonna lie.

When I was choosing electives in 8th grade, this program was like, fourth on my list.

Really, it was just like filling up the programs.

But I really enjoy being immersed in the world of music with my peers, with my classmates.

[performing] (Josh Ortiz) I just used to come in here and look at the guitars and wish I could play those and make music.

But I didn't know it was like a class about making music until last year.

This class really brought me to get to-- it got me to focus on what I wanted.

(Kaya Holland) So SV Beats just let me really focus on what I love and how I wanted to take that and all the different routes of what I do in my high school career.

-It helped me to get more out of myself and what I wanted to do for my goals in life and what I wanted in my future.

-How does SV Beats help students develop their unique voice and sound in this program?

-So this path is a lot different than traditional paths for everybody else because there's no one right way to do something.

If you want to write music, you're going to write in your own voice, tell your own stories.

If you wanted to DJ, you're gonna find specific genres that you gravitate towards.

If you want to produce, there's different softwares and different ways.

So it's a way to be taught from multiple different people instead of just one teacher in a way you have to teach yourself by being curious and pushing yourself to learn.

(Tayven Stipp) If you said I'd be playing at First Friday downtown, I would tell you I never would.

So this has not only shaped my experience as a program, but as a person as I've gotten older.

And it's only ever benefited me, and it's brought me a lot of joy.

I look forward to coming here.

-I'm fortunate to have this program all four years, and I really do truly think that it was the luckiest thing that has happened to me, because this is such an amazing and such a fulfilling program.

I really enjoy it.

-Thanks to SV Beats, it has made it possible for students to unlock a whole new world of music and creativity and to follow their passion for music.

I'm Ezekiel Day with the Vegas PBS Media Crew signing off.

-Thank you, Ezekiel.

Great report.

Cool program.