Chances are likely that you have heard of a few iPad apps for use in the classroom. Like me, you may have heard about so many of them that you can’t even remember them all — or you have made it so far as to download them and now hundreds of little icons have been left untouched in a folder called “Music,” sitting on your home screen.
Wandering around the NAMM show is an experience in cacophony. Between product demos, artist presentations, and the thousands of attendees trying out the latest gear, it’s hard to hear yourself think.
It wasn’t that long ago when there were quite a few dedicated audio editing and mastering programs available, but over the years, one by one, most have gone by the wayside.
It was with great regret that I found myself giving up my early 2009 MacBook Pro 17” machine.
Of all the types of music software available, digital audio workstations (DAW) are the most fun. They allow anyone to record and edit their music with unbelievably powerful tools that would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars not that long ago.
Most teachers would agree, there’s no more important aspect to learning to sing or play an instrument than regular structured practice.
No matter how many times stores and programs frame learning music as a “fun” thing, learning music theory has never been inherently exciting (and for many, not even remotely enjoyable).
There are extended techniques, and then there are extended techniques.
Band directors need to communicate with their students on the field, in the stands, and sometimes even in the rehearsal hall.
Few software programs have had the staying power of Finale. When it was released it immediately became the standard by which all other notation programs were measured.
Rarely has a software program been as anticipated as Steinberg’s new notation program. If you don’t know the story, a few years back, Avid decided to let go of the Sibelius development team and Steinberg hired the core team to develop Dorico.
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