Music Ed Tech Talk

Chris and Paul, co-hosts of the Music Education & Technology Podcast, rejoin the show to talk about how we are doing for distance learning, StaffPad for iPadOS, and other recent news in music technology education. Show Notes: dear music teachers… please stop asking how to create a virtual choir video | Midnight Music Virtualchoir.net - Keep singing, keep sharing. Start your virtual ensemble. Noteflight  MusicFirst Flat.io  smartmusic  PracticeFirst Cubasis 3 Music Ed Tech Talk | #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald New iPad Magic Keyboard forScore iPad Apps You Love, Now on Mac GoodNotes 5 SwiftUI  FileMaker Pro StaffPad for iPadOS Notion Komp Symphony Pro Ferrite Recording Studio StaffPad Reader Music Notation on iPad and Musicals | iPad and Technology in Music Ed First Impressions of StaffPad for iPadOS | Robby Burns StaffPad Comes to iPadOS (Reflections on App Store Pricing and Touch Screen Operating Systems) | Robby Burns A Revolution and Turning of the Tide - Music Creation is Changing for the Better with StaffPad for iOS! | iPad and Technology in Music Ed Working with StaffPad | Technology in Music Education Dorico Planning Center Reason ReWire  Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration unrealBook My Very Straightforward and Very Successful Setup for Teaching Virtual Private Lessons | Robby Burns PDF Expert PencilKit MindNode Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly Louis Cole Knower Childish Gambino The Jive Aces on Britains Got Talent Animal Crossing iCab Mobile - iPad web browsers that can download YouTube videos App of the Week:  Robby - Slack Paul - Cubasis 3 Chris - LumaFusion Album of the Week: Robby - It Is What It Is | Thundercat Paul - You and I | Wycliffe Gordon and Marty Erickson  Chris -  Bring Me Sunshine | The Jive Aces Yesterday | Billie Eilish Where to Find Us: Paul Shimmons: Twitter | Website  Chris Russell: Twitter | Website Robby Burns: Twitter| Blog Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts| Overcast| Castro| Spotify| RSS

David MacDonald, composer and professor at Wichita State University, joins the show to talk about paperless iPad workflows, student collaboration over the cloud, the state of notation apps on the iPad, and some of our favorite macOS and iOS productivity apps. More topics include: -Collaborating on student composition projects over the cloud using iPads, Dropbox, PDF Expert, and GoodNotes -AirPlaying the iPad to Zoom conference calls -Using the iPad as a digital whiteboard using GoodNotes -Behavior management  -Writing apps -Why Markdown is useful -Using GoodNotes Dropbox backups as a student collaboration feature -Strengths of iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive -Using third party cloud providers in the iOS Files app -All of the various ways PDF Expert can work with files -Annotating documents on iPad -Searchable handwritten text in GoodNotes -Converting iMessage stickers into stamps in PDF Expert to teach the proper resolution of the tendency tones in the Neapolitan sixth chord -The state of notation apps on iPad -Our dreams for future Apple hardware -Our picks for app and album of the week Show Notes: -Blackboard -David MacDonald / Composer -Scoring Notes: Paperless composition lessons with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil | David MacDonald -Apple to Launch Several Macs With Arm-Based Processors in 2021, USB4 Support Coming to Macs in 2022 -Dropbox -PDF Expert  -GoodNotes 5 -Hazel - Automatic file organization for your Mac -Zoom -Screenflow -OmniOutliner  -Tonal Energy -forScore -Ulysses - The ultimate writing app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone -iA Writer - The benchmark of markdown writing apps -Squarespace - What I made my website in -How to use Smart Annotation in Pages -Marked 2 - Smarter tools for smarter writers -Midnight Music: 10 Productivity Apps to Help You Organize Your Lesson Plans | Robby Burns -iCloud Drive Folder Sharing -MindNode -Aminal Sticker Pack for iMessage -The Mandalorian Sticker Pack for iMessage -StaffPad -Scoring Notes: StaffPad wows with long-awaited iPad release and new free StaffPad Reader | David MacDonald -Sibelius -Dorico -iPad and Technology in Music Education Blog | Paul Shimmons -Technology in Music Education Blog | Chris Russell -StaffPad Reader -Notion -Komp  -Symphony Pro -Cubasis for iPad -SwiftUI -Six Colors Blog -3.15.20 - Childish Gambino -Snarky Puppy - Family Dinner (Vol. 1) -Snarky Puppy - Family Dinner (Vol. 2) -Snarky Puppy feat. Becca Stevens & Väsen - I Asked -Jacob Collier - Theory Interview -Adam Neely YouTube Channel -Analyzing Demi Lovato’s arrangement of the Star Spangled banner at the Super Bowl | Adam Neely -OmniFocus  -OmniFocus Project Templates Using TaskPaper Syntax -Drafts App - Where text starts -2Do  -Downie - Mac app for saving videos from the internet -Things - Award winning personal task manager that helps you achieve your goals App of the Week:  Robby - OmniFocus - Powerful task management for busy professionals, SetApp - The frontier platform that packs 170 Mac apps into just one David - nkoda -Arguably the Netflix of sheet music Album of the Week: Robby - Wonderbloom by Becca Stevens David - Partita for 8 Voices by Caroline Shaw (2013 Pulitzer Prize Winner) Where to Find Us: David MacDonald: Twitter | Website  Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Julianna Mateyko, Director of Support and Training for MusicFirst, joins the show to give me customer support. Other topics include: teaching music remote, quarantined lifestyles, Instacart, and cute life-simulator games as a form of escapism in the age of COVID. Also, our favorite albums and apps of the week. Show Notes: -MusicFirst -Jim Frankel - Director of MusicFirst -Animal Crossing -Sharing Apple Notes -Instacart -Doordash -Sign In With Apple -SAMR Model for Technology (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) ... Julianna refers to this as the three levels of technology in the episode -Soundtrap -Noteflight  -Barbara Freedman (Website) (Twitter) -Zoom  -MusicFirst Customer Support Page -Google Chrome -MusicFirst iOS App -O-Generator for iOS -Soundtrap for iOS -Spotify -Musictheory.net -In Tune Monthly -type “yourdomainhere/support/userguide” to get to the user guides -type “yourdomainhere/support/tutorials” to view the video guides  -Icon Factory   App of the Week:  Robby - Tot - An elegant, simple way to collect & edit text on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad Julianna - Stardew Valley   Album of the Week: Robby - 3.15.20 by Childish Gambino Julianna - covers and more - A Spotify playlist of covers brought to you by Julianna   Where to Find Us: Julianna Mateyko: Twitter | Website  Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog   Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Andrew Hitz (former tuba player for Boston Brass, professor at Shenandoah University, speaker, creator, and podcaster) joins the show to talk about portfolio careers, being an entrepreneurial musician, confident self-promotion, apps we’re using, classical music subscription services, and taking Sam Pilafian to his first Phish show. And as usual, way more... Show Notes: Baltimore Brass - Amazing Instrument and Repair Shop in Baltimore, Maryland AndrewHitz.com Boston Brass The Brass Junkies TEM.fm Me Asking Andrew A Question TEM Episode 206 with Amanda Gookin Andrew Hitz Twitter Band Directors Guidebook Crush it - Gary Vaynerchuk My book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers | Oxford University Press GroupMe Ship It - Seth Godin Joe Alessi  Presidio Brass Parker Mouthpieces Brass Chats Audible  This is Marketing on Audible Slack Tonal Energy Tuner TEM Episode 174: Sam Pilafian on Producing Rick Beato: Perfect Pitch: The World’s Greatest Ear | Music Notation! My StaffPad Review  Leo Laporte  IDAGIO  Clairières: Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger Digital Concert Hall - Currently free for the month!  Phish Concert 12/31/93 - Harry Hood (Hitz’s first Phish show) The Most Validating Day of My Life —Andrewhitz.com  (Hitz takes Sam Pilafian to his first Phish show) Punch Brothers   App of the Week:  Robby - StaffPad for iPadOS Andrew Hitz - Better Ears - Eartrainer   Album of the Week: Robby - Brilliant Corners | Thelonious Monk (Not mentioned on air)  Andrew Hitz - Andris Nelsons | Boston Symphony Orchestra | Shostakovich Symphonies No's. 6 & 7    Where to Find Us: Andrew Hitz: Twitter | Website  Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog   Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

Paul Shimmons, author of iPad and Technology in Music Ed, joins the show to talk about Apple’s new software releases: iPad OS 13 and macOS Catalina. But we also find time to talk about our favorite apps, microphones, recording workflows, subscription pricing for software, Siri Shortcuts, iPad apps for Mac, the new iPhone, and the new Apple Watch. Show Notes: Audio Hijack Downie - Browser extension to download audio and video from websites Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 Audio Technica P420 Blue Yeti Microphone Tonal Energy Tuner Shure MV88 iPhone Microphone Noteflight Dorico Plex Homebridge Nest Smoke Detector HomeKit Soundtrap MusicFirst Pyeware FileMaker Overcast AnyList Drafts Music Ed Tech Talk Episode - Taking Notes with Drafts, Featuring Greg Pierce Ulysses iA Writer Evernote OmniFocus Things Todoist Wunderlist TaskPaper Carrot Weather App GoodNotes for the Mac My “It’s Concert Band Siri” Shortcut Due to a bug in my version of Shortcuts, I am currently unable to share shortcuts. I hope to update this soon. Tonal Energy Tuner Siri Shortcuts Go to Preferences and select Siri Shortcuts. Tap on the action you would like to turn into a shortcut and then assign a Siri phrase for it. OmniGraffle Federico Vitici on Twitter MacStories Craig McClellan Twitter|Blog Matt Cassanelli Twitter NFC Stickers Attendance 2 for iPad iDoceo - Gradebook and Seating charts on iPad forScore forScore Apps for Mac Newzik Ferrite Recording Studio - iPad app for Podcast Editing iPadOS 13 MindNode Squarespace Use iPad Pro with a mouse App of the Week: Paul Shimmons - Newzik Robby - Pixelmator Photo Album of the Week: Paul Shimmons - Steven Meade - Diamonds Robby - Sturgil Simpson - SOUND $ FURY Where to Find Us Paul Shimmons: Twitter | iPad & Technology in Music Ed Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS  

Ethan Hein joins the show to talk about no less than the following: Ableton Live, bias in harmonic analysis, hip-hop in music education, music education in hip-hop, the racial politics of defining genre, white people covering hip-hop songs on acoustic instruments, basing a dissertation on blog posts, the aesthetics of dubstep and metal, and Ethan and Will Kuhn’s forthcoming book.   Show Notes: -Animoog iOS app -John Lee Hooker -Howlin Wolf  -Philip Tag, musicologist  -Old Town Road - Lil Nas X, ft. Billy Ray Cyrus -Lil Nas X and the racial politics of country music - Ethanhein.com -Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd -Hey Jude - The Beatles -Naima - Ethanhein.com -Steven Feld, ethnomusicologist -Animals as Leaders -Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Metal Cover - Leo Moracchioli -Chris Thile covering Kendrick Lamar’s Alright on Prarie Home Companion -White people with acoustic instruments covering rap songs - Ethanhein.com -Punch Brothers Covering Radiohead’s Kid A -Biz Markie - Just A Friend -Angel of Doubt - Punch Brothers -willkuhn.com -Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skrillex -Instapaper -Why hip-hop is interesting - Ethanhein.com   App of the Week: OmniGraffle | Scrivener | Audacity    Album of the Week: untitled unmastered. - Kendrick Lamar   Where to Find Us: Ethan Hein: Facebook | Twitter | Blog | SoundCloud Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog   Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS  

Programmer and musician, Jon Tippens, returns to the show to talk about Robby’s podcast rebrand, how to practice, playing the inner game of tennis, career changing to tech, and his favorite apps and music.   Show Notes: @ryebot on Twitter, designer of my new artwork Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards The Natural Rider, Mary Wanless The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Galloway Lynda.com - Online software tutorials Teaching Musical Performance, Daniel Kohut OmniFocus - Accomplish More Every Day Things by Cultured Code Reid Stefan - Audio tutorials with puppets Be Focused Pro - Pomodoro App for Mac and iOS   App of the Week:  Robby - Safari on iPad OS Jon - Time by bluecocoa   Album of the Week: Robby - Snarky Puppy Live in Stockholm, 2015 Jon - Dawn of MIDI - Dysnominia   Where to Find Us: Jon Tippens: Twitter  Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog   Subscribe to Music Ed Tech Talk: Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS    

This week Robby catches up with John Mlynczak, Managing Director of Noteflight, about their new Marketplace platform and the state of digital music publishing.  My opening monologue that usually introduces the show and guest was lost in an epic battle with my MacBook this week. Enjoy, instead, an awkward cold open, brought to you by Roomba and the Amazon Echo. Show Notes John Mlynczak: Twitter | Website | Noteflight   Noteflight Marketplace Purchasing on Noteflight Marketplace Selling on Noteflight Marketplace Marketplace Terms of Service forScore Smart Music Practice First

Show Notes Greg Pierce Agile Tortoise | Twitter Referenced Stuff OmniFocus TaskPaper TaskPaper documentation Fantastical Calendar App Drafts Action Directory TextExpander Workflow app Bear note app Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions Other Apps by Agile Tortoise Terminology | Tally | Diced