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My Music Tech: What Is Sony Acid?
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. What Is Sony Acid? Sony Acid is a loop-based music composition software program that makes it easy for those with little music training to create original music compositions. Since the "sounds" are already provided as loops (for example, guitar, drums, saxophones, synthesizers), the 'composer' simply needs to arrange the sounds in an order that appeals to them. It helps to know something about musical (song) form.
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My Music Tech: Music Education Must Shift
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Friday, June 03, 2011. Music Education Must Shift. In the last post, I suggested a new paradigm. Increasingly, students are coming to us with skills on (electric) guitar, keyboards and other instruments (mandolin has become popular recently because of it's use by some mainstream pop artists. It's perfectly decent music. If we don't do it at school, students are busy learning it anyway. Despite the school music program! Logy Classes (formerl...
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My Music Tech: The 21st Century Music Program
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Friday, June 03, 2011. The 21st Century Music Program. I've written about it already:. Music Education must shift. As most of what we do in Education must shift now). But I haven't given a prescription for the shift. I'll focus on music education first since it's where I've spent most of my career. So where does secondary Music Education fit into this? Do students ever hear "their" music? In a 21st Century Music. In a 21st Century Music.
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My Music Tech: The Project-Based Middle School Music Class (Part 1)
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Monday, January 14, 2013. The Project-Based Middle School Music Class (Part 1). Educational Leadership (ASCD) publiched an article called ' 7 Essentials for Project-Based Learning. The 7 Essentials, abbreviated, are:. 1-A Need to Know. 3-Student Voice and Student Choice. 7-A Publicly Presented Product. To solve problems and questions creatively, they jump at the chance. Conversely, even the most motivated of students will shut down give...
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My Music Tech: Looking for Blues Resources?
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Tuesday, October 12, 2010. Looking for Blues Resources? 7th grade students and I research the Blues each year. You Tube is part of that research. Many good resources (primary source material! Can be found there. This year we decided to make a list of You Tube users who have significant (and quality) blues resources in their playlists. Here is a list 10 of those users. Posted by Andrew T. Garcia. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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My Music Tech: Musical Instruments for the Future
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. Musical Instruments for the Future. Posted by Andrew T. Garcia. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 7th Grade Music Styles Google Docs Presentations. Nessacus-Yokohama Global Music Composition Exchange. Music Ed. for All.
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My Music Tech: Top 10 Reasons to use Loop-Based Music Software in Music Class
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Tuesday, January 01, 2013. Top 10 Reasons to use Loop-Based Music Software in Music Class. Why use loop-based composition software in a music class? Here are 10 reasons:. Students don't need prior knowledge of music fundamentals (though this knowledge certainly helps). It is empowering when students are working on "real" music in their own way. Music class becomes inextricably linked with technology which means two budgets feed the program.
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My Music Tech: Using Twinkle to Introduce Song Form
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Thursday, May 22, 2008. Using Twinkle to Introduce Song Form. One of the best decisions we made for our General Music program was to transform it into a Music Technology Lab. The next best thing was to adopt the loop-based software program Sony Acid. As a significant part of the student music experience. But where to begin? And how do musical concepts get taught/learned? Here's how we begin the process:. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Nessacu...
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My Music Tech: Music Education Professional Learning Network Launches
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Topics in Music Technology and New Paradigms for Learning Music. Monday, July 19, 2010. Music Education Professional Learning Network Launches. Watch Out, Here We Come! The Music Education Professional Learning Network launches. Today, July 19th, 2010. The site is a "freely available public site specifically designed for Music Teachers, Educators interested in Music topics, and pre-service Music Teachers.". Conductors, clinicians, presenters,. I believe that it will be widely used by Music Education Prof...
