When you drive someone home, and they tell you "turn left here, and right now etc." you usually will never remember how to get there again, if you don't know the neighbourhood.
Then you will just be copying the book as well.
Now you have to go through the book, and try a bunch of things in the book, before you get to the stage of beginning to experience programming, and trial and error.
There is no way around that.įor me, a book just adds an extra step. That's what makes the connection between the experience and the name, or definition, or shape, or setting, or what have you. The truth is, what really gets you there, is grinding it out, and putting the time in. Reading about compressors, or EQ won't help you there, either. Just like a book of guitar chords won't really help you play guitar, and a book of words, won't help you speak a language. The difficult part about going from what's in your head into reality, is understanding what the names/definitions of the things in your head are, and how to materialize them.Ī book of beats won't be able to do that for you.
I'm kind of academic that way, plus my other motivation is to help my kids with their music studies, too.Īlso, thanks to Nip for the download links. I agree with those who say 'play what's in your head' (which I do) and 'analyze the loops' but I was hoping to get my head around the core structures of these styles in a consistent and clear way so that when I have it in my head I will have a better idea of what it is so I can get it out faster. I'm going with stratman and ordering the Drummer's Bible. MUSIC 70: Stories and music of refugeesĪs part of a creative project to gather cultural materials of people who inhabited the shores of the Mekong River, this course will combine ethnomusicology, anthropology, and cultural history with creative projects based upon gathering and compiling first hand materials through interviews and recordings of people around the Bay Area, and perhaps beyond, who were transplanted from their native homes in the Mekong region.Thanks for the thoughts and the wisecracks, too! Weekly guest speakers provide real world insights on topics related to professional advancement. This course is designed for students wishing to explore their personal and artistic identities as they embark on careers in performance and/or music industry. Art is My Occupation: Professional Development in Music Setting up such links and debugging them requires knowledge of network protocols, network audio issues and some ear training. Distributed rehearsing, production and split ensemble concerts are the goal. The course teaches open-source (free) techniques for setting up city-to-city studio-to-studio audio links. Under the right conditions, the Internet can be used for ultra-low-latency, uncompressed sound transmission. Today's vast amount of streaming and video conferencing on the Internet lacks one aspect of musical fun and that's what this course is about: high-quality, near-synchronous musical collaboration.
Musicians collaborate with composers and artists visiting and performing at Stanford. Performing compositions of the 20th century, recent works of this century, and new works by Stanford faculty and student composers.