I’m very happy to have a few of my questions addressed on a recent episode of Scoring Notes (listen here).
Philip and David have been doing a series of episodes featuring listener questions. In part 3, the questions are centered on educational topics. Their responses are insightful, considered, and practical.
I am back on the iPad Pros podcast, this time to talk about Logic Pro for iPad.
I really had fun talking to Tim about this topic. I hope you will check it out.
I really enjoyed this video of awesome, free, Mac apps. I use and give my thumbs up to most of the apps in this video and even learned about a new one or two myself.
Composer Adrian B. Sims joins the show to talk about his career, musical journey, and favorite tools.
Learn more about Adrian and check out his upcoming music catalog here.
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Will Kuhn and David MacDonald return to discuss Logic and Final Cut for iPad, the Ableton Push 3, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, and the Apple Vision Pro. Robby struggles with his internet connection.
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Show Notes:
Half Notes: A comparison of tablet music reader technology experiences – Scoring Notes
The best iPad score reader for most people 2023 update – Scoring Notes
App of the Week:
Robby – Sequel
Album of the Week:
Robby – KNOWER FOREVER
Will – [1000 Gecs](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmoCFzuKniN8yTiL701Ardjwq7oMkvnz8
David – WDR Big Band on YouTube
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This blog post is worth a read. Via Andrew Hitz.
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice:
The miracle of industrialization has reduced many first prices tremendously, but has also given us many more of them to consider paying. With all the wonderful toys on offer, almost nobody feels like they have quite enough money, enough acquisition power. When a person receives a windfall, they immediately think of more first prices they can now pay.
But no matter how many cool things you acquire, you don’t gain any more time or energy with which to pay their second prices—to use the gym membership, to read the unabridged classics, to make the ukulele sound good—and so their rewards remain unredeemed.
I believe this is one reason our modern lifestyles can feel a little self-defeating sometimes. In our search for fulfillment, we keep paying first prices, creating a correspondingly enormous debt of unpaid second prices. Yet the rewards of any purchase – the reason we buy it at all — stay locked up until both prices are paid.
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Kick off the summer right! Jaye returns to the show to talk about AI, robots, mechanical keyboards, analog habits, Bluey, and focus modes.
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David Getz is an educator from Illinois who is doing crazy awesome things with Google Spreadsheets to track the progress of his orchestra students. It reminds me of some of my own goals for tracking data and assessing students. Read about his awesome workflow on his blog.
Post #3 – Creativity in Organization: Google Sheets Dashboards — David Getz Creative:
Spreadsheets begin as endless rows of empty cells, neatly organized in columns and rows; a pure, blank canvas. What’s hidden in each cell though are endless formulas and shortcuts that can allow any creator to manipulate them for artistic and imaginative purposes.
I have always enjoyed goofing around with spreadsheets, but it was typically for the sole purpose of organizing baseball statistics or populating March Madness brackets. It wasn’t until I began coaching cross country that I began using my knack for number crunching for a professional purpose. After a few seasons of gathering large amounts of running data and analyzing trends to help us in our races, I realized I could also be using Google Sheets for educational purposes in my classroom. Music teachers often have the same students for multiple years, so having a way to analyze data over a long period of time is essential.
This year, I have decided to take a deep dive into building Google Sheets Dashboards.
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Music Ally reports that Spotify is selling Soundtrap back to its founders.
Spotify sells its music-creation tool Soundtrap back to its founders – Music Ally:
Spotify is selling music-creation tool Soundtrap back to its founders to become a standalone business again, five and a half years after acquiring it.
Originally a startup from Spotify’s homeland Sweden, Soundtrap built its service as a cloud-based tool for recording and collaborating on music. Aimed at grassroots musicians and schools, it was bought by Spotify in November 2017.
Soundtrap has now been sold back to its original founders, Per Emanuelsson and Björn Melinder, for an undisclosed amount.
I was intrigued back when Spotify purchased Soundtrap and podcast publishing tool Anchor. The idea of putting both the audio creation tools and consumption tools into the hands of the general user seemed like it could result in some synergistic results long term. I guess Spotify isn’t interested in that. I am not really sure what Spotify is interested in. Their vision for the experience of using their app seems to be all over the place lately. And I don’t understand what the app offers that other music streaming services don’t, other than perhaps their superior music discovery algorithm.
MusicFirst welcomes MusicProfessor — Dr. James Frankel:
Coming this Fall, the MusicFirst Classroom will include ALL of the amazing Level One videos from MusicProfessor.com at no additional charge. MusicProfessor is an online library that contains hundreds of short videos that provide lessons so that students learn how to play an instrument at home at your own pace on any device. The videos are excellent and professionally produced, and I personally believe that it is a perfect resource for any band or orchestra director who may not have the time to provide individualized instruction to EVERY student.
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