Tuesday - April 29, 2008
Harmony Final
So I'm sitting here giving my Harmony students their final exam this morning. There is much sighing & gnashing of teeth.... though I'm not sure why. For some reason a few of them don't seem to "get it".
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It's weird to me. To be fair, introducing the concept of secondary dominant function and modulation is a bit scary if you're coming out of high school with really *no* training in harmony. Most of our kids are like that. it's not an insult in any way.... it's just that almost all of them are starting from scratch, so to speak.
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Monday - April 28, 2008
Form & Analysis
So I'm trying to work out my Form & Analysis class for the Fall semester. I've *always* enjoyed teaching that course here...but I think this semester may test me the most!
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It's not because of the students. In fact, I think this will be one of the best groups I've had for a long time. The main issue is that there are 11 or 12 signed up so far!
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Sunday - April 27, 2008
New MacBook Pro
So I'm planing to get a new
MacBookPro this summer. My current PowerBook G4 (1.5 gHz/1.5MB RAM) has worked wonderfully for me over the last 4 years. I'm going to hate seeing it fall to "second place", but I still have plans for it.
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I honestly haven't been making much music with my computers for a pretty long while now. It makes me sort of bummed out since I love doing it so much. I guess part of it is that I haven't really felt comfortable doing it since I've been over in this apartment. It's hard to say why I haven't been comfortable, though. I'm pretty sure it is two things. 1) I can't seem to get my stuff set up in an ergonomically positive way, and 2) It makes me sad to make music now.
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Wednesday - April 09, 2008
new orchestra ditty...
I haven't really written for orchestra or orchestral instruments for a while now. Mostly, I've been focusing on electronic music (when I've been focusing on anything at all, that is).
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So the fellow that conducts the orchestra here at PC asked me to write something for them.
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Monday - March 12, 2007
piano lessons
I'm working on my piano lessons
diligently.
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Friday - March 09, 2007
not much to report today
The only thing of any significance is
that.....
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Tuesday - March 06, 2007
Echoplex galore
I ordered an Echoplex today.....I will love it
& I will regret it all at the same time.
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Tuesday - February 27, 2007
metronome
I used to hate working with a
metronome....still do in some ways....
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Sunday - February 25, 2007
basic musicianship
So here I am again - a week after I said I was
getting back into the spirit of writing here every day....HA!
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Sunday - January 28, 2007
new marillion album
The new album from one of the last, best
progressive rock bands in the world has a release date slated for April 9, 2007
in Europe and April 24, 2007 in North America.
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Thursday - January 25, 2007
Groove *IS* In The Heart
This
(click for video) is one of the coolest songs ever.
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Monday - January 22, 2007
garbage video page
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Sunday - January 21, 2007
one more michael hedges video
So it turns out that iBlog can't embed video in
avi, m4v, or mp4 formats.
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Sunday - January 21, 2007
more michael hedges video
This is a test of iBlog to see how to put video
inline using a different format than mpg.
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Sunday - January 21, 2007
michael hedges video
Because It's
There
on harp guitar.
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Thursday - January 18, 2007
I'm not really sure what to make of these Pipettes.
I'm pretty sure I love it, but I don't quite
know what it means.
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Tuesday - January 16, 2007
WPCX FM 97.1
I do a radio show for the college here every Tuesday at
6 pm. It's fun.
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Monday - February 02, 2004
Mock-yeah ing-yeah bird-yeah
I ordered a new guitar yesterday....Well, the
"official" terminology is that I "won the auction" on eBay, but I have a problem
using that phrase since it was basically just a store in Cleveland that posted
an ad on eBay....but whaddareyagonnado? I just really hate "cutesy" phrases
like "won the auction"....anyhow....
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Saturday - December 06, 2003
Spice it up
I have a massive, major, and potentially
explosive secret that I feel I need to get off my chest.
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Wednesday - December 03, 2003
Loops and iTunes
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