Robby’s Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include:
- Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos
- The importance of developing audiation in student musicians
- The strengths of binary performance rubrics
- Art vs. Craft
- Understanding relational databases
- Data-driven music teaching (the good kind)
- Lots more music teaching philosophy
Show Notes:
- Final Cut Pro X
- Logic Pro X
- Screenflow
- LumaFusion
- Logic and Final Cut 90 day free trial
- Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education ($200)
- Alfred 4 for Mac
- Music Ed Tech Talk #9 – Automate All The Things! With Craig McClellan
- David MacDonald | Composer
- Music Ed Tech Talk #6 – Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald
- IMSLP
- IMSLP Alfred Search
- 5esrd Alfred Search
- J. W. Pepper
- Bento
- FileMaker
- Book – Robert Duke | Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction
- Tonal Energy Tuner App
- Edwin E. Gordon – Musical Aptitude Profile
- Book – Arnold Jacobs | Wind and Song
- Lynda Course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training
- Lynda Course: Learning FileMaker 17
- Lynda Course: FileMaker Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
- AirTable
- Charms
- Noteflight Announcement about SoundCheck Integration
- SmartMusic
- MusicFirst
- FileMaker 19 Holds Promise for My Music Teaching Workflow | Robbyburns.com
- New York Philharmonic – Digital Archives
- NKoda – An ensemble of sheet music, scores and parts
App of the Week:
Robby – Discord
Ben – IDAGIO
Album of the Week:
Robby – Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground
Ben – Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos
Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog
Ben – EMMS Music | HoCoYo
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Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database:
Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left)
Example of the music packets that FileMaker generates for our students:
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