I had a blast joining the At Percussion podcast last week to talk about teaching percussion, using tech, running a successful private teaching studio, being productive, and more.
Listen in your favorite podcast app or watch below:
I am pleased to be a guest on the iPad Pros podcast this week to talk about Dorico and Sibelius for iPad.
Tim Chaten does an awesome job with this show and has a background in composition. If you want to spend quite a bit of time with us and hear my thoughts on these two professional scoring programs for iPad, give it a listen!
YouTube version here:
I am pleased to be a guest on the MusicFirst podcast, Profiles in Teaching with Technology, this week.
I had a great conversation with Dr. Jim Frankle. We talked about my journey into music ed, catching an interest in technology, tips for teachers who are apprehensive about tech, what my school’s music program looks like (normally and during the past year). and my favorite uses for technology in the classroom.
Check it out below and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
Rob Knopper (Metropolitan Opera, auditionhacker, percussionhacker) joins the show to talk about mastering practice, improving the audition process, and using technology to support his multifaceted efforts as a performing percussionist, teacher, and creator of web resources for musicians.
Other topics include:
App of the Week:
Robby – SoundSource
Rob Knopper – Anki
Album of the Week:
Robby – An Oscar Petersen Christmas
Rob Knopper – Pictures at an Exhibition | Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book
Rob Knopper – Twitter | Website
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Tyler S. Grant joins the show to talk about teaching band in a hybrid learning model, composing music, and the tools and habits that help him find balance between the two.
App of the Week:
Robby – Christmas Time Shortcut
Tyler – UCLA Music Theory App
Album of the Week:
Robby – NPR The 50 Best Albums of 2020 – An Apple Music Playlist
Tyler – West Side Story – 1984 Recording (Documentary)
Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book
Tyler – Instagram | Website
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Robby's cohost from The Class Nerd podcast, Craig McClellan, returns to talk about recent smart home and Apple purchases, speakers with digital assistants, technology and music we are thankful for.
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The Class Nerd Podcast – Listen to Craig and I talk about using technology in the classroom
Philips Hue Bulbs
Lutron Caseta Light Switches
MyQ Garage Door Opener
Netatmo HomeKit Doorbell
Nest Hello Doorbell
Starling.io
Eero
Sonos One
Craig's Guitar:
Cory Wong
Vulfpeck
Robby's Viral TikTok:
@_robbyburns #duet with @_robbyburns I added the percussion. #sleighride #concertband #bandmusic #fyp #foryou #christmasmusic #percussion #babiesoftiktok
Robby's Way More Viral (But Less Good) TikTok:
@_robbyburns #duet with @_robbyburns
Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride Arrangement
@flutedudemusic on TikTok
Star Wars Themes on Guitar During Worship Songs – TikTok
Robby's We Wish You A Merry Christmas Meme TikTok:
@_robbyburns #duet with @simplyaleah_ #christmasmusic #musictheory #musicnotation #vibraphone #percussion #fyp #foryou #accidentaljazz
HomeRun App
Kemper Amp
TikTok
TextExpander
forScore for Mac
Apple Pay
Brahms Symphonies – George Szell/Cleveland Orchestra
Ruston Kelly – Shape & Destroy
Thad Cockrell – If In Case You Feel The Same
Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book
Craig McClellan – Twitter | Website
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An ad pinned to the sidebar of this blog (my thanks to this month’s sponsor, Flat for Education!)
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I am open to all kinds of sponsorships. The audience of the blog and podcast are musicians and educators, often active music teachers, who are generally tech-savvy. Many of them use multiple computing devices, aren’t afraid to try new tech, and are looking for practical ways to engage their students musically.
Naturally, software that enhances the creative and productive lives of musicians and teachers is a good fit but I am open to sponsorships of a much wider variety than just that. Music stores, colleges, fundraisers, books, you name it!
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In an upcoming episode of my podcast, Frank Buck and I talk a bit about automation. In that episode we reference a great service called If This Than That. I have been using it for years and though the service is free, they recently announced a Pro Version with a “choose your own price” subscription model.
You can choose a price as low as $1.99 a month until October 31. Since the podcast episode isn’t dropping until later in the week, I thought I would get this news out there now.
This is an extremely useful service that has been a part of my productivity workflow for years. IFTTT allows you to string together different apps and services to create automations, or, “Applets.” Some examples might include:
If I save a YouTube video to watch later, add a task to remind me to watch it
If I like a Tweet, save the attached article to a read it later list
If I am tagged in an Instagram photo, save it to my Dropbox
If I do an item on my to do list, log it in a row of a Google Sheet
If I pin something on Pinterest, share it to Facebook
The possibilities are limitless. The pro version adds a ton of features, for example:
Multi-step Applets
Queries and conditional logic
Multiple actions
Faster Applet execution
… and beyond.
IFTTT is a great tool and I strongly recommend you check our the new pro features before the end of this month!
UPDATE: Listen to Theresa’s appearance on my podcast and subscribe below…
Listen on Apple PodcastsListen on SpotifyRSS FeedTheresa Hoover Ducassoux is a band director in Virginia doing awesome work ensuring that her students are engaged and empowered in her band classes, online and in person. She is especially savvy with a lot of the web-based tech tools that are popular in education right now.
Her post, which I have linked and quoted below, explains some ways you might use Google’s Jamboard app in the music classroom to engage students.
Getting Started with Google Jamboard – Off the Beaten Path:
Jamboard is one of the newer and lesser-known G Suite tools, but it’s one that I love and am excited to use this school year! Jamboard is a collaborative whiteboard that be accessed by an app or web browser. The simplicity of the tool makes it great for education. Jamboard is a great way to have all students in your class share their voices.
Jamboard is indeed excellent. I used it for a number of things last spring. One way we used it was to communicate and share what we had been up to in our free time when school started online.
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Another way we used it was as an adjudication tool for providing ourselves feedback on our virtual ensemble video progress. You can see a brief snippet of that process in the middle of my How to Make a Virtual Band video, below.
Go and check out Theresa’s post, and all of her fine work at Off The Beaten Path Music. Spoiler: She is my podcast guest this week. Jamboard is just one of the many awesome tools and online teaching strategies we talk about. I learned a ton from her. That episode should be published tomorrow. Stay tuned!
John Mlynczak returns to the show to discuss Noteflight’s new integration with Sound Check and offers advice to educators about teaching online this fall, and what we can learn from it.
App of the Week:
Robby – Kindle/Audible |
John – TikTok
Album of the Week:
Robby – Igor Levit – Beethoven Piano Sonatas |
John – Hamilton on Disney+
Where to Find Us:
Robby – Twitter | Blog | Book |
John – Twitter
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