by Hanno Strydom Strydom.Hanno@MacPhail.org
Last week one of my students emailed me to say that she'd like to do a youth orchestra audition in June. This year the audition requirements include a big cello excerpt from Shostakovich Symphony No. 5. Realizing that the prep time is relatively short, I …
by Hanno Strydom Strydom.Hanno@MacPhail.org
Ever since I got my MacPhail iPad I've been searching for a way to replicate on the iPad what I had previously been doing with the Audacity software installed on my studio desktop and my Blue Snowball microphone. I wanted high-quality audio, an app that a…
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
I love to use audio recording when teaching. It addresses a bunch of good teaching practices at once and students usually get motivated when they hear themselves performing. I tend to use Audacity if I'm doing a simple recording without any frills and us…
by Jeremy Hanson Hanson.Jeremy@MacPhail.org
The third in a series showing HOW exactly technology has improved the quality of teaching or music therapy, i.e. Problems and solutions. No how-to's, just what impact is seen with students and clients
I use many kinds of technology in my teaching every d…
By David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
I accidentally figured out how to export a ton of tracks all at once and it has completely made my week. 8 groups of students at New City School were recorded playing recorder trios. I was able to export their recordings to individual mp3 files all at once!…
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Dan Hedegard and Hanno Strydom have already posted about how to burn recordings to CD's and attaching recordings to Evernote notebooks. Here is a quick video about how to simply export a recording without any burning or attaching involved.
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Ok, my first New Years resolution will be that this will be the last Audacity post for awhile(unless you have a special request). I wanted to make sure all these videos were available for faculty. So here goes:
There are a couple quick and easy things you…
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
When I use Audacity in a lesson or class, it's never a super tidy process. I often end up accidentally recording myself talking or 
I forget to stop the recording and end up recording twenty minutes of silence. If I have a recoding I want to keep, it alwa…
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Audacity can sometimes be overwhelming to handle during a class or lesson. The last thing you want is to be f
ussing with the computer when you are trying to teach music. One way to keep things simple is to record everything in one track, as opposed to seve…
By Hanno Strydom Strydom.Hanno@MacPhail.org
Here's a very short video demonstrating how to attach an audio file, recorded in Audacity, to a note in Evernote:
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Today's video quickly shows how to:
All that in 2 minutes!
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Sometimes when recording in Audacity, the sound is poor for some reason. Luckily most of the time it can be improved with one or more of the following steps:
by David Birrow Birrow.David@MacPhail.org
Last year we had a terrific faculty workshop about technology. Attached below is a handout that walks you through how to create a basic recording using Audacity step by step. Let me know if there are any questions.
by Jon Iverson Iverson.Jon@MacPhail.org
When it comes to audio recordings, overdubbing is nothing new. There are some unique examples worth noting however. Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans created three full albums of music with the technique of overdubbing, "Conversations with Myself," "Furth…