Music with Mr Gray (New Podcast)
Technology in Music Education
by choirguy
3M ago
Through my ukulele sites, I have released an interview with David Gray, a music educator in the United Kingdom who has been releasing many materials for music education on his YouTube Channel, Music with Mr Gray. https://www.youtube.com/@MusicwithMrGray The content ranges from recorder to ukulele to pitched percussion to brass resources. If you teach recorder in any way, you’ll want to use the resources on the channel. The podcast can be found at on YouTube.com/ukestuff, or on the UkeStuff Podcast on most podcast streaming software ..read more
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Sessions at the Iowa Music Education Association Fall Conference (2023)
Technology in Music Education
by choirguy
4M ago
I haven’t mentioned this on the blog or social media, but I am in Ames, Iowa (Campus of Iowa State University) presenting a couple of presentations for the IMEA Fall Music Education Conference. Today (Friday) I am presenting on the iPad in Music Education (looking at the device in 2023). Tomorrow (Saturday), I will be presenting a session about ukulele. PDFs of the presentations will be posted later; the iPad Session will be available on this page (on the “Past Presentations” page), and the notes from the ukulele session will be on my ukulele blog. (Update 11/17 4:38pm the iPad Presentation is ..read more
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Recorder Methods?
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by choirguy
6M ago
I am now in my fifth year of teaching at the elementary level, having survived the transition from secondary teaching…as well as a global pandemic. I teach recorder to my students over two years (Grades 3 & 4), with several guiding thoughts: Students are learning how to read notation and make music on a wind instrument from written notation. It is a pre-band experience, allowing students to experience playing a wind instrument. It is an affordable instrument, where every student can buy their own—or we can provide one for them. It backs up all of the foundation we have laid in previous ye ..read more
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A Longer Review of Notion Mobile
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by choirguy
10M ago
While I have been a beta tester of Notion for years, the very kind folks at PreSonus have been asking me to review Notion Mobile for some time, and I have been avoiding writing that review. It is the summer, I am not teaching (though I do have several part-time jobs), so I no longer have the excuse that I’m too busy. “Busy” is true, combined with teaching (elementary for the past four years), creating ukulele content (going on seven years), and being a husband/parent. In truth, my use of technology in music education changed the moment I left secondary teaching. As many readers know, I had a f ..read more
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Notion Mobile now working on Chromebooks!
Technology in Music Education
by choirguy
1y ago
Notion Mobile has been out for some time, and I have avoided writing about it until now. With my “new” (year four already!) elementary music position, my need for traditional notation software is extremely limited to those rare occasions that I am preparing music for my 4th & 5th grade extra-curricular choir, arranging string parts for our high school combined concert in the fall (something I still do, years after leaving my high school position), or when I am arranging things for ukulele (I currently have a collection of Christmas Carol Chord Melody arrangements for Ukulele available on ..read more
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If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been…
Technology in Music Education
by choirguy
1y ago
Hello! It has been quite a while since I have written a blog post. There are a number of reasons for that, and I will have a few posts coming in the near future. But I did want to give some insight into where I’ve been lately. Ultimately, I haven’t blogged very much. This hasn’t stopped companies from sending PR materials to the address on this blog (there are only a few active music technology blogs these days…and this one has not been very active); and I occasionally get a request for guest posts (people looking to be paid to write content). As I have to explain to both companies and aspirin ..read more
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Dorico 2.0 is out for the iPad!
Technology in Music Education
by choirguy
2y ago
Dorico has announced version 2.0 of their iPad app, which brings some feature parity to the latest desktop release of Dorico. You can read their full release here: https://blog.dorico.com/2022/02/dorico-for-ipad-2-0-now-available-from-the-app-store/ I haven’t used Dorico for iPad very much, nor have I worked with the latest version of the PC/Mac version. Life has been busy with work (it has been a stressful year, more than most, but not a bad year) and the ukulele work (videos require hours and hours of work), and I need time to really absorb what Dorico can do; some of the concepts are still ..read more
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Big PlayScore 2 Update Out Today!
Technology in Music Education
by choirguy
2y ago
I just received notice from PlayScore that they have released a big update to their music scanning app, PlayScore 2. It is said to be much faster, offering a count-in (for people that play scores through the app), with MusicXML export of lyrics and chord symbols (I’m not sure how it will handle ukulele diagrams) along with some new sounds (recorder and harpsichord) and of course, improved accuracy. While I still love the simplicity and cost of Sheet Music Scanner, I have paid for the annual subscription to PlayScore 2 for the last few years, as there are times it is worth having and saves me t ..read more
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Updated Pricing Structures for SmartMusic AND thoughts about old blog posts
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by choirguy
2y ago
A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from MakeMusic, letting me know that they have changed the pricing structure of subscriptions to SmartMusic. They were concerned that an old post on this blog had old pricing information. You can find the updated pricing information (as of November 19, 2021) at: https://www.smartmusic.com/pricing/ I just wanted to add a couple of items regarding the blog, as well as my instructional shift. First, blog posts on this channel become “historical artifacts.” Technology is ever changing (even if the pace of technology advancement in music education has been ..read more
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Fender Acquires PreSonus
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by choirguy
2y ago
News came out earlier this week that, pending Federal approval (and let’s be honest…why would they care?), Fender is going to acquire PreSonus. I have no idea, at this time, how this is going to go. I was concerned when Soundtrap and MuseScore were purchased by other companies, but to date, both of those products continue to go strong on their own. There are other cases, such as MakeMusic, where I’m still not 100% convinced that a buy-out was in the best long-term interest of the company (though MakeMusic continues to improve and add features over time). Fender, is, of course, a well-recognize ..read more
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