Modules
Visual Music Theory
Color
What is Light? How do we perceive colors? How do we see?
Visual Music Theory
Sound
What is sound?
Visual Music Theory
Rhythm
Tempo and beats
Visual Music Theory
Notes
Separating and giving names to particular frequencies and periods of time.
Visual Music Theory
Intervals
Two notes interacting with each other. The basic pigments for drawing music.
Visual Music Theory
Chords
Two and more intervals sounding together bring up the more complex chord structures.
Visual Music Theory
Scales
All 12 notes are too much for us and we prefer 5-7 steps in a circular structure. We call such subsets Scales and Modes.
Visual Music Theory
Harmony
Chord progressions draw some distinct emotional background for a melody to stand out.
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Visual Music Theory
Melody
Notes and silences can be combined in infinite ways. We found there so many and yet there's so much to find!
Visual Music Theory
Composition
How to use all that to create your own music from scratch
Visual Music Theory
Performance
How to start exposing your music to others around. Bringing all the skills to use, make something that can be appreciated by your listeners.
Prepare a live jam
What to consider before announcing a jam? Space, sound, announcements, setting roles and groups of players.
Roadmap
Visually expressed temporal structure of a composition that a group is going to improvise in sync. Can be drawn or shown on fingers, or communicated in any other visual way and may be a reference at the time of jamming.
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Setting initial goals
First thing you should consider when you start thinking of having an expensive electronic music instrument is what do you want to do with it. In this module we learn how to be certain and find right answers independently for yourself.
Jam Etiquette
Common knowledge and ways to approach music collaboration
Jamming is spontaneous musical collaboration. Instead of playing a song, jamming is when musicians find a groove or melody and improvise together. While jamming the group has the freedom to try new things, play around with potential songs, and have fun finding a musical connection with each other. Jamming is a great way to play music casually, to warm up with your band, or to experiment with new keys and melodies for future songs.
https://www.wikihow.com/Jam
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Drum Tracks
We'll go through all 4 drum layers of the synth from kick and snare to hi-hat and percussion.
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Synth Tracks
Closer look at 4-8 tonal instruments available to play synthesised or sample based sounds.
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FX and Tape tracks for sound design
FX tracks, Tape track, and Master track to improve and expand sound bending capabilities.
Performance
Performance track, various techniques to bend sounds and patterns during live music events
Composition
Building patterns with step components and varying lengths for interesting and not shortly looped parts and structures in time. Building a project pattern by pattern, change by change.
Sampling and files
Sampling live input and dealing with files for instruments on the input and project files to store and share on the output side. Where to get new instrument sounds and how to make your custom ones.
JS Build Systems
Convenient SFC format and the use of NPM packages makes the build step inevitable even for completely client side JS web-apps. So we can ensure our final code is correct, tightly packed, and easily distributable.
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Vue 3
An approachable, performant and versatile framework for building web user interfaces.
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Roles
In a live jam with many instruments and musicians it's very important to acknowledge roles that every participant plays in the overall performance. Most of the times it's easy to discern audience and musicians actively playing. Although this might drastically change throughout the performance. But let's dive deeper into what are the particular functions that people can perform in a live collaborative music session.