Saville, Kirt. Strategies for Using Repetition as a Powerful Teaching Tool. Music Educators Journal, 2011 98: 69 When a student brings a recorded song to me that they want to learn, the first thing I do is load it into Ableton and mark off the different sections with a simple color-coding scheme: blue for verses, [...]
Filed in Music Teaching, Sampling, Software
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Also tagged ableton, attention, chunking, linkedin, looping, memory, nyu, teaching, transcribe
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
In 1987 I remember having my ears grabbed by this thing on the radio called “Pump Up The Volume” by MARRS. Now that mashups are so common, this track doesn’t sound particularly remarkable. But in seventh grade it was startling to hear a house music track full of random samples. “Pump Up The Volume” was [...]
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Also tagged authenticity, bobby byrd, digging the crates, dj hero, eagles, eighties, eric b & rakim, fugees, hip-hop, james brown, jimi hendrix, marrs, mashups, nas, recursion, revival revival, sample maps, Sampling, stetsasonic, turntablism
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
I find myself in the new and delightful position of writing for money. So I needed to step up my game in terms of workflow and file management. The last time I tried to write something long, I was in college, using Windows 3.1 and good old Wordperfect 6. Then the Microsoft hegemony set in [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Software, Writing
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Also tagged attention, cruft, design, feature creep, indexcards, interface, minimalism, omnioutliner, plain text, psychology, rtf, scrivener, Writing
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