Track 1 – Have any of your students asked you to be more like Sunny Bridges ? Read reviews of Class of 3000 created by Andre 3000 of Outkast starring him as a music teacher. Track 2 – Here’s a great collection of blogs that contain opera mp3s. Track 3 – This online program tests your ability to hear and recall musical phrases to determine if they are the same or different. It might be interesting to have students record… Read More »A Music Education Mixtape V5
While music sites on Myspace have become ubiquitous there are many other interesting models for musicians who want a web presence and a way to distribute their music without dealing with large labels. Besides being a phenomenal trumpet player, Dave Douglas brings a visionary outlook of distributing live performances via his label greenleaf music. Douglas is performing for several days at the Jazz Standard in New York City and releasing each live set almost immediately in mp3 format for a… Read More »Live performances in digital format
How long will it be before we refer to instruments, not as electric, but as digital? The Gibson digital guitar maybe the start of the trend. The fact that the guitar is digital is interesting, but the possibilities that exist due to its design are more so. If students were to begin using digital guitars in the music classroom how would we shift our teaching to take full advantage of the digital design? Joe Abramo recently posed some interesting questions… Read More »Evolutions in electronic instruments: the Digital Guitar
I’m currently in Michigan for the first ever International Society for Improvised Music conference. So far the conference has been excellent, bringing together people interested in improvising from a wide variety of perspectives. There are music educators present but there should definitely be many more in attendance. Once I get back home I’ll pull together the notes I have been taking and write about some of the main themes discussed. In the meantime take a look at the ISIM website… Read More »International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) Conference 1
The Barenaked Ladies, a popular indie band, have joined the world of musicians allowing their music to be re-mixed. Encouraging people to “Do it yourself” they include several tracks from their latest album in multitrack WAV files. There is a major difference between this particular remix project and many of the others that have been taking place on sites such as CCMixter. In order to download the multi-tracks you have to pay a fee of $2.49. In addition they specifically… Read More »Remixing the Barenaked Ladies