Category: Podcast Episode

🎙 #4 – The Most Validating Day of My Life, with Andrew Hitz

Andrew Hitz (former tuba player for Boston Brass, professor at Shenandoah University, speaker, creator, and podcaster) joins the show to talk about portfolio careers, being an entrepreneurial musician, confident self-promotion, apps we’re using, classical music subscription services, and Phish. And as usual, way more…

Show Notes:

Baltimore Brass – Amazing Instrument and Repair Shop in Baltimore, Maryland

AndrewHitz.com

Boston Brass

The Brass Junkies

TEM.fm

Me Asking Andrew A Question

TEM Episode 206 with Amanda Gookin

Andrew Hitz Twitter

Band Directors Guidebook

Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk

My book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers | Oxford University Press

GroupMe

Ship It – Seth Godin

Joe Alessi 

Presidio Brass

Parker Mouthpieces

Brass Chats

Tech Tools Andrew is Using:

– Audible

– This is Marketing on Audible

– Slack

– Tonal Energy Tuner

TEM Episode 174: Sam Pilafian on Producing

Rick Beato: Perfect Pitch: The World’s Greatest Ear | Music Notation!

My StaffPad Review 

Leo Laporte 

IDAGIO 

Clairières: Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulange

Digital Concert Hall – Currently free for the month! 

Phish Concert 12/31/93 – Harry Hood (Hitz’s first Phish show)

The Most Validating Day of My Life —Andrewhitz.com  (Hitz takes Sam Pilafian to his first Phish show)

Punch Brothers

App of the Week: 

Robby – StaffPad for iPadOS

Andrew Hitz – Better Ears – Eartrainer

Album of the Week:

Robby – Brilliant Corners | Thelonious Monk (Not mentioned on air) 

Andrew Hitz – Andris Nelsons | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Shostakovich Symphonies No’s. 6 & 7 

Where to Find Us:

Andrew Hitz: Twitter | Website 

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 #3 – iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina, with Paul Shimmons

Paul Shimmons, author of iPad and Technology in Music Ed, joins the show to talk about Apple’s new software releases: iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina. But we also find time to talk about our favorite apps, microphones, recording workflows, subscription pricing for software, Siri Shortcuts, iPad apps for Mac, the new iPhone, and the new Apple Watch.

Show Notes:

Due to a bug in my version of Shortcuts, I am currently unable to share shortcuts. I hope to update this soon.

  • Tonal Energy Tuner Siri Shortcuts

Go to Preferences and select Siri Shortcuts. Tap on the action you would like to turn into a shortcut and then assign a Siri phrase for it.

App of the Week:
Paul Shimmons – Newzik

Robby – Pixelmator Photo

Album of the Week:
Paul Shimmons – Steven Meade – Diamonds

Robby – Sturgil Simpson – SOUND $ FURY

Where to Find Us
Paul Shimmons: Twitter | iPad & Technology in Music Ed

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 #2 – Hip-Hop In Music Education, Music Education In Hip-Hop, with Ethan Hein

Ethan Hein joins the show to talk about no less than the following: Ableton Live, bias in harmonic analysis, hip-hop in music education, music education in hip-hop, the racial politics of defining genre, white people covering hip-hop songs on acoustic instruments, basing a dissertation on blog posts, the aesthetics of dubstep and metal, and Ethan and Will Kuhn’s forthcoming book.

Show Notes:

App of the Week: OmniGraffle | Scrivener | Audacity

Album of the Week: untitled unmastered. – Kendrick Lamar

Where to Find Us:
Ethan Hein: Facebook | Twitter | Blog | SoundCloud
Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 Introducing Music Ed Tech Talk, My New(ish) Podcast!

Today I am excited to announce that my podcast, Robby Burns + Friends, is getting a long overdue re-brand. I am renaming the show Music Ed Tech Talk. It will continue to follow the candid guest/host conversation style and will focus on music, education, technology, and other mutual interests.

Given my investment in the fields of music and education, and my intense interest in technology, most episodes of Robby Burns + Friends were already centered on these topics. I felt it was time to rebrand the show to better indicate to new listeners what they should expect when they press play.

That being said, I see this show, in combination with my blog, to be my digital megaphone, so don’t be surprised to hear me venture into the unknown. This is not a show about music technology education. It is a show about music, education, and technology. Three separate interests, sometimes discussed in isolation, sometimes in combination, and sometimes not at all. What I am saying is — don’t be surprised to hear occasional digressions on Star Wars and pickling. 

I am hosting this show in the same place so you should expect to keep getting episodes in your feed if you were subscribed to Robby Burns + Friends. If not, please let me know. I am keeping the first three seasons of RB+F in the Apple Podcasts Directory under the new title because I feel that they are, spiritually speaking, the same show. I will be tightening up the format a little bit, and am planning to speak with new and exciting guests.

That about sums it up. Ushering in this new season of Music Ed Tech Talk is my very first guest ever, Jon Tippens. You can listen to the new episode and read the show notes here or click play right below.

Show Notes:

@ryebot on Twitter, designer of my new artwork

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards

The Natural Rider, Mary Wanless

The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Galloway

Lynda.com – Online software tutorials

Teaching Musical Performance, Daniel Kohut

OmniFocus – Accomplish More Every Day

Things by Cultured Code

Reid Stefan – Audio tutorials with puppets

Be Focused Pro – Pomodoro App for Mac and iOS

App of the Week: 

Robby – Safari on iPad OS

Jon – Time by bluecocoa

Album of the Week:

Robby – Snarky Puppy Live in Stockholm, 2015

Jon – Dawn of MIDI – Dysnominia

Where to Find Us:

Jon Tippens: Twitter 

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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🎙 New podcast episodes!

It’s been a while, but each of my podcasts, ‘Robby Burns + Friends’ and ‘The Class Nerd,’ each have new episodes out this week.

Please consider checking them both out:

Robby Burns + Friends – Tech We’re Using, featuring Friends Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons

Chris Russell and Paul Shimmons, co-hosts of the Music Education and Technology Podcast, join me to talk about recent technology we are using in the music classroom.

The Class Nerd – Apple Watch in the Classroom

Craig and I discuss ways we are using the Apple Watch in the classroom.

🎙 Recent Podcast Episodes – “Noteflight Marketplace” and “Going Paperless”

In case you do not subscribe to either of my podcasts, each had a new episode published this past week. They are good ones…

 

Going Paperless (Semester 1, Episode 8) | The Class Nerd – 

This week, The Class Nerd breaks down their paperless process. In this one, we cover scanning apps, file organization, PDF annotation apps, and handwritten note apps.

 

Noteflight Marketplace, with Friend John Mlynczak (Season 3, Episode 6) | Robby Burns + Friends –

This week Robby catches up with John Mlynczak, Managing Director of Noteflight, about their new Marketplace platform and the state of digital music publishing.

🎙 The Class Nerd – Episode 4: Drafts

This week on The Class Nerd, Craig and I pick apart our favorite iOS productivity app, Drafts.

I always explain Drafts as the app that most diminishes the cognitive load of my music teaching job and beyond. Gone are the days of writing down notes, todos, and other reminders on whatever scrap piece of paper is nearest to me only to forget everything when its most important. Drafts is the fastest way I know to take down an idea. I don’t even have to think about what kind of idea it is because Drafts offers a rich list of actions that can send the text to other apps.

This episode might be out most technical yet, but don’t let that scare you off. Drafts is one of those apps that is as complicated as you want it to be. You can get a ton of productivity out of it with very little learning curve.

Listen to the episode here.

 

🎙 Introducing The Class Nerd Podcast

As was teased last week, I am launching a new podcast. Well, it is here! Craig McClellan and I are excited to launch The Class Nerd Podcast today. Craig writes at The Class Nerd Blog…

Introducing The Class Nerd Podcast:

Robby and I are both teachers who are passionate about our jobs, but also about not making our jobs our lives. We both work hard to make teaching as efficient and effective as possible so we have time to spend with our families and on other things we care about. A lot of this increased efficiency has come out of our love of Apple devices, and we have both tried to share our workflows with the greater education community through blogs, and in Robby’s case, a book. This podcast is meant to be another resource for teachers.

Semester 1 of The Class Nerd Podcast will be 10 weekly episodes around 25-30 minutes in length. Hopefully this is conducive to the busy lifestyles of teachers, and can be some easy summer PD.

With the the school year ending for me today, I cannot help but think this could provide a nice listen for some of you while you are traveling in planes, cars, or relaxing by the beach this summer.

Episode 1 is all about tools for beefing up your email productivity, focusing predominantly on Apple’s Mail app. We hope you enjoy it! 

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