Category: GarageBand
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Music Zettel Ep. 5 – Tech skills & industry collaboration
This week we are giving away dozens of free resources for music education and technology! I’ll be reflecting on the first 5 weeks of my Sydney Conservatorium course “Technology in Music Education”, which culminated in a media creation session with brilliant pianist Lolita Emmanuel in which the students were the film and sound crew. I…
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Remixular bells
In this unit of work you will examine how Mike Oldfield built the opening of his seminal progressive rock work Tubular Bells. By following each step as instructed below, you will rebuild the work yourself, remix it, and then compose a new piece based on the original. Simply follow the process outlined as follows. Listening Learn…
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Beat programming to iMovie on iPads
I’m teaching at the Sydney University Wingara Mura Bunga Barabugu summer camp for young indigenous Australian songwriters this week … today doing a workshop on drum programming on iPad apps, then sending to iMovie to use as TV show opening credits music … I made this cheat sheet that I thought I’d share for anyone…
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Slide2Learn conference, Sydney
I’m having fun at the Slide2Learn conference on mLearning in Sydney. Did a presentation this morning – the deck below was created in Apple Keynote and has been converted (and the many videos removed!). Here’s the session description: Reflecting on the uptake of music technology in schools in the 1980s, teacher, researcher and programmer Andrew Brown (Griffith…
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Songwriting in GarageBand with Musical Cryptography
I developed several units of work to go with my composition Passion for Symphonic Winds, and this electronic version has nothing to do with that work except that that’s where the interest in hiding messages in music began. Since I found it interesting, I thought my students would, and they’ve had a lot of success playing around…
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Please welcome the #SCMtech community of music educators for 2013
It will be no surprise to hear that I really relished the opportunity to rewrite the Sydney Conservatorium’s course Technology in Music Education this year. It was one of those tasks that was only difficult because I could write a 26 week course rather than a 13 week course (many of the 1h50m lectures have about…
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Website updates, SoundCloud integration and a free online Sibelius course. Yes, free.
Long time no blog – but that’s what happens when you take a new job! Since March I’ve been working at the Sydney Conservatorium as a full time lecturer in Music Education. I’m loving it, and I’m exhausted. This blog post is mostly to draw your attention to the many changes I’ve made at my…
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Adventures in Project Based Learning part 2: back in the classroom
In my last blog I outlined some of what I learned from spending a week observing and even participating a little at High Tech High in San Diego last June. Naturally, the intention of such a big trip was not only to watch and document, but to give this process a go ourselves. And so…
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Resources for Drone & Chant, first lecture
In our lecture, we have sung through the Drone & Chant: Next, download this GarageBand file to improvise your own melody over the drone in A natural minor.
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Tutorial notes week 7 – and resources from the lecture
In the tutorial this week we created our own Wiki on the topic of music technology for education. After discussing how the structure of our Wiki would work, I demonstrated setting up the first few levels, and created a page on the Korg iElectribe for iPad. I then asked you each to create a page…
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Lecture notes week 7 – typed up on my iPad
I have a feeling that these lecture notes will be fairly skinny. It’s not that I’m being lazy or don’t have much to write. It’s that while it’s great that WordPress make a free iPad app for blogging, I think that it’s not really as fully featured as I need it to be. Anyway, let’s…
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Lecture notes from lecture 4
I swapped the content for lectures 4 and 5 around because I have been able to augment the lecture on performance technologies by getting some friends from Roland Australia to come and bring their new drum lab. That will be next week. Today we started with a very short singing exercise to show more use…
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UWS MTeach lecture 2
Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted. What a lot of information in a short space of time. I hope you all kept up OK, and for those who didn’t, I hope that you will find what you need here in my lecture notes. If you don’t, email me and I’ll explain further.…
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SixEightThreeFour
This piece is part of my Symphony of the Child, commissioned and premiered by the International Grammar School in Sydney in 2009. It uses alternating six-eight and three-four time signatures, like a Flamenco, and is perfect for middle school classes to perform. In this unit of work students move from performing the piece in class to…
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