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Preface: The Music Class at the End of the World |
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Acknowledgments |
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To the Reader |
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To Public School Teachers |
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To Independent Music Teachers |
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To Everyone |
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PART I WHAT YOU NEED TO START YOUR OWN ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCHOOL |
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1 Toward a Creative Music Curriculum |
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1.1 The Creative Music Teacher |
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1.2 Addressing Students Who Typically Don't Take Music Classes (The Other Eighty Percent) |
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1.3 How Music Technology Can Fit into a Broader Performing Arts Curriculum |
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1.4 The Divide Between Music Teachers' Definition of Music and Students' Definition of Music |
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2.2 Computer as Tool Versus Computer as Medium |
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2.3 Songwriting and Sound Creation |
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3 Understanding What a School Really Wants |
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3.1 Who Makes Decisions About Curriculum? |
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3.2 Selling the Lab-Based Music Course |
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3.2.1 Administrators and School Leaders |
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3.3 How Music Tech Benefits the Master Schedule |
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3.4 How Music Tech Benefits the Music Department's Profile |
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3.5 Sweetening the Deal with Graduation Requirements |
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3.6 Getting Funding and Staying Funded |
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3.7 Protecting Your Investment |
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3.8 Criticisms of a Nontraditional Music Class |
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4 Tech You Will Need for Your Program |
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4.5 Possible Room Configurations |
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4.6 Choosing Other Hardware for the Lab |
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4.7 Setting Up an Individual Station |
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4.8 Building on Existing Infrastructure |
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4.9 Day-to-Day Considerations |
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4.10 Maintenance and Cleaning |
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5.3 Ableton Live Basics: Arrangement View and Session View |
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5.4 Ableton Push Overview |
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5.4.1 Do You Really Need One? |
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5.4.2 Techniques Afforded by Push |
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5.4.4 Chords and Melodies |
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5.5 Comparisons to Other DAWs |
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PART II CREATIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PROJECTS FOR THE MASSES |
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6 Designing Creative Music Projects |
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6.1 Working with Beginners |
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6.3 Process Versus Product |
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6.4 Customization and Aesthetic Opportunities |
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6.6 Listening to and Observing Students |
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6.6.1 Techniques for Pop-Cultural Ethnographic Observation |
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6.6.2 Tips for Incorporating a New Trend in Your Teaching |
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6.8 Technical and Aesthetic Goals |
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6.9 Deconstructing a Genre |
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6.10 Universal Techniques |
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6.10.1 Provide Default Tracks and Presets |
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6.10.2 Add Variety Through MIDI Manipulation |
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6.10.4 Recording to Arrangement View |
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6.10.7 Fuzzy Boundaries and Fill Bars |
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6.10.8 Making Songs End Gracefully |
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7 Teaching Recording and Sampling with Audio Projects |
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7.1 Designing Projects Centered on Audio |
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7.1.4 Basic Editing Skills |
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7.1.6 Ableton Lives Session View |
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7.1.7 Ableton Live's Arrangement View |
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7.2 Project Example: Arranging Clips |
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7.2.5 Before Teaching This Lesson |
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7.2.9 Differentiated Instruction |
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7.2.11 Assessment Strategies |
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7.3 Project Example: Unreliable Product Ad |
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7.3.11 Differentiated Instruction |
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7.3.13 Assessment Strategies |
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7.3.14 The Comedy Pyramid |
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7.4 Project Example: Simple Remix |
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7.4.5 Before Teaching This Lesson |
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7.4.9 Differentiated Instruction |
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7.4.11 Assessment Strategies |
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7.4.12 Making This Project Your Own |
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7.5 Project Example: Picking Apart a Multitrack |
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7.5.5 Before Teaching This Lesson |
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7.5.9 Differentiated Instruction |
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7.5.12 Making This Project Your Own |
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7.6 Project Example: Custom Cover Song |
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7.6.6 Overview of the Technique |
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7.6.7 Syncing the Guide Track Using Ableton Live |
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7.6.8 Cultural Considerations |
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7.7 Project Example: Movie Soundtrack |
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7.7.5 Before Teaching This Lesson |
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7.7.9 Differentiated Instruction |
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7.7.11 Assessment Strategies |
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7.7.12 Making This Project Your Own |
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8 Teaching Songwriting with MIDI Projects |
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8.1 Software Instruments Versus MIDI |
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8.1.1 Drums Versus Not-Drums, Step Time Versus Real Time |
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8.2 Functional Music Theory |
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8.6 Project Example: Drum Programming |
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8.6.11 Assessment Strategies |
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8.7 Project Example: Beatmaking |
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8.7.9 Differentiated Instruction |
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8.8 Project Example: Slow Jam |
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8.9 Project Example: Future Bass |
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8.9.9 Differentiated Instruction |
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8.10 Project Example: House Music |
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8.10.4 Listening Examples |
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8.11 Project Example: Trap Beats |
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9 Teaching Creativity with Outside-the-Box Projects |
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9.1 Designing Projects to Teach Originality |
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9.3 Repurposing Ideas That Exist Already |
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9.5 Project Example: Soundscape |
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9.6 Project Example: Vaporwave and Lo-Fi Hip-Hop |
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9.7 Project Example: Video Beatboxing |
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9.7.5 Audio Examples of Found Sounds in the Drum Parts |
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9.8 Project Example: Sampling |
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9.8.6 A Crash Course in Musical Intellectual Property |
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10 Common Issues in Music Lab Lessons |
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10.1 Weak Student Engagement |
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10.2 Projects Take Too Long |
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10.2.1 Strategy One: Real Artists Ship |
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10.2.2 Strategy Two: More One-on-One Help |
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10.2.3 Strategy Three: Pencils Down |
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10.3 Projects End Too Quickly |
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10.4 Students Are Afraid to Show Their Projects |
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10.5 I Can't Think of Ideas for Projects |
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10.7 I Went to School for Music. How (or Why) Should I Manage a Computer Class? |
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10.8 Students Are Trying Hard, But They Always Seem Lost |
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11 Assessing Music Lab Projects |
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11.1 Intrinsic Motivation |
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11.3 Practical Considerations |
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12 Future-proofing the Electronic Music School |
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12.1 Refreshing Old Projects |
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12.1.1 Strategy 1: Update the Elements of a Project That Involves Choices |
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12.1.2 Strategy 2: Acknowledge Defeat and Make Fun of Your Past Self |
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12.2 Outlasting a Graduating Class |
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12.3 Maintaining Skills Between Old and New Projects |
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12.4 Adapting to New Teaching Formats |
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12.5 Committing to a Platform (or Not) |
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PART III COMMUNITY MUSIC CULTURE AND EXTRACURRICULARS |
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13 Live Performing and Afterschool Groups |
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13.1 Preparing Students for a Musical Life Outside of School |
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13.2 Model One: Recording Club |
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13.3 Model Two: The House Band |
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13.4 Model Three: Electronic Music Group |
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13.4.1 The Birth of the Electronic Music Group |
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13.4.3 A Student Perspective on EMG |
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14 Understanding Student-Led Groups |
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14.1 The Teacher's Role (Hint: Very Different) |
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14.2 Remember the Prime Directive |
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14.3 Building Creative Teams |
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14.4 The Whiteboard Session |
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14.5 Giving and Taking Criticism |
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14.6 Refining Ideas Before They Get Made |
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14.7 Facilitating, or "What Can You Do That They Can't?" |
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14.8 How Ideas from Student-Led Groups Benefit Lab-Based Courses |
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14.10 Going Beyond Music: Film, TV Shows, Other Content, and Media Production |
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15 Virtual Electronic Music School |
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15.3 Moving the Electronic Music School Online |
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15.3.1 Smaller Group or Individual Meetings |
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15.3.2 Synchronous Class Meeting That Breaks into Smaller Groups |
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15.3.3 Asynchronous Online Class |
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15.3.4 Live-Streaming Sessions |
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16.1 Maximum Reach and Demographics |
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16.2 How Traditional Music Groups Thrive Because of Project-Based Courses |
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16.3 A Performing Arts Program That Truly Elevates Culture |
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16.4 Critical Popular Music Studies |
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16.5 Producing and Consuming Audio |
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16.6 Educational Goals and Social Impact |
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16.7 The Racial Politics of Music Education |
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16.8 Music Creation as Personal Development |
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270 | (1) |
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16.9 Building for Musical Lifetimes |
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271 | (4) |
Index |
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