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Doug Conrad joins the show to talk about making recruitment videos for your music program.

0:00:00 Tech Setups instead of introductions. Bottom line? Cable management.

00:03:45 Okay, now introductions…

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04:13:00 …then immediately back to what's going on in the world Apple

Apple Creator Studio

Macbook Neo

00:13:54 A Chromebook tangent

00:14:22 Connection issue and interstitial music

00:15:00 Back on Chromebooks

Apple Classroom

00:23:01 Doug's Recent Sessions

Midwest Shop Talk: The Art of Recruitment Videos

Mr Conrad's Music Room: 2025 Recruitment Video

00:41:00 Tools to make these videos. Often free, and easy to use!

Final Cut

Keynote - draw stuff, animate it!

iMovie (iPad or iPhone version)

CapCut

Davinci Resolve

Clipchamp

Wevideo

00:50:46 Which tools Doug actually used for the 2025 Recruitment Video

Shot on iPhone

Key points outlined on Doug's presentation PDF

importing and organizing media

moving clips around on the timeline

import and adjust audio

cropping videos and photos

speed adjustment

What you want it to look like, and work backwards

01:02:12 Wrap-Up

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Robby chats with Evan Tobias (Associate Professor of Music Education at Arizona State University) about imagining new possibilities for music teaching in a rapidly shifting digital landscape–from rethinking what curriculum even means, to the everyday tools that power his research, writing, and thinking.

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Chapters and Notes

00:00:00 Greetings first

00:08:41 Introductions second

Evan Tobias, Arizona State University

YouTube

TikTok

Instagram

Podcast

AT Protocol

Cory Doctorow's Book

00:26:04 What possibilities that exist when music teachers use technology in different ways

Obsidian

Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures

00:54:38 What is curriculum?

Podcast Episode 4: Music Curriculum Perspectives with Brian Laakso

Hal Leonard Modern Band Series

littleBits

01:11:25 Research and writing tools: writing, interviews, reading…lots! Connecting ideas across many mediums…

Scite.AI - used to scan across databases, answer questions

Hazel - file management

DEVONthink - store, organize, work

zotero - collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research

PDF Expert - PDF editing

TextSniper - extract text from images

01:26:07 Surveys

Qualtrics - creating surveys

Calendly - scheduler that integrates with calendars

TextExpander - type a keystroke that fills in email body or other text

Keyboard Maestro - automate applications or websites

Fantastical - give your calendar superpowers

Craft - you know it, you love it

01:42:35 Interviews

Descript - record, edit, transcribe

Snipd - AI-powered podcast app

Airtable - database to help keep track of where people are in the project

Notion - database in place of Google Doc

OmniFocus - Task management

ClickUp - Task and project management

Readwise

Reader - PDF reader

Raindrop.io

Speechify - listen to text/PDF files

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Chapters

• 00:00:00 - Intro & Thank You Patron Supporters
• 00:02:42 - Apple Creator Studio Suite & Affinity (owned by Canva)
• 00:10:39 - What's New in AI
• 00:14:55 - The Many Notes of Robby Burns: Apple Notes | Evernote | Bear | DEVONthink | Drafts
• 00:22:30 - Personal Knowledge Management: METT #58 - Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain | Obsidian | Craft | Notion
• 00:30:41 - What Am I Actually Using These Days: Obsidian Plugins | Things | GoodNotes | Todoist | Hookmark
• 00:42:08 - Summary & Overall Philosophy

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• Robby - robbyburns.com

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00:00:00 Music and Introduction

00:01:41 Thank you, Patreon Subscribers!

Support me on Patreon

00:02:15 Apple Announcement

Apple Creative Studio launched January 28th, 2026

Educator Bundle has been Discontinued

Notion

00:09:06 What's New in AI

00:10:16 Apps in My Workflow: On My Mac

Group your tabs!

Fantastical

Omnigraffle

iWork

Logic Pro

iReal Pro

forScore

Farrago

Stream Deck

Mastodon

Discord

Readwise

Mars Edit

ChatGPT Mac App

Claude Mac App

Gemini

Apple Home

Foodnoms

CoPilot Money

iPhone mirroring

00:29:42 Apps in My Workflow: On My iPhone

Sonos

Overcast

Audible

Libby

Kindle

Apple Health

Peloton

Drafts

Tonal Energy

00:31:45 Apps in my Workflow: On My iPad

HomeCam

AppleTV

Narwhal

StaffPad

Dorico

GoodNotes

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00:00:00 Welcome, Intros, and a TI:ME Feature

00:10:25 Listener Question - what sources do you follow to stay afloat on tech tools and ongoings in and outside the field of music education?

RobbyBurns.com

cdm

Pirate Wires

Futurism

The Verge

Techmeme

Six Colors

Daring Fireball

Mac Stories

Off the Beaten Path

00:16:55 Chart-Topping AI Country Song

Using Suno* to make demos

00:27:03 Automation Station

Craft - a PKM that's hot

Drafts - working with Craft

Loop - Nice lookin' Google Doc

00:33:20 Segue: Tahoe Issues, iOS 26 Issues, System Issues

00:35:47 Favorites of 2025

• Apps: Sequel, Finch, Final Cut Pro
• Music: Bon Iver, David Matthews, Fred Again…, Tame Impala + Justice
• Computing Device: Apple Watch Ultra, Mac mini m4, JAYE'S BRAIN
• Other Tools and Materials: Miyoo Mini Plus, Nintendo Switch, PAID StudioOne, Ableton Move
• Books: Ideology of Competition in School Music, Nuclear War: A Scenario, Adam Curtis documentaries, fiction, broadly, War & Peace (via Footnotes & Tangents), Meditations

• Other Media:

  • Robby:

    • Hard games such as Hollow Knight
    • Movies - Arrival

    • Show - Pluribus

      • Will:

    • Shows - Pluribus

    • Game - Balatro

    • Movie - Mulholland Drive

      • Jaye

    • Movies - Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning

    • Sports - Cricket
    • Museums - The MLB Hall of Fame
    • Misc!

  • @Robby

    • Presentations and Awards - TMEA

    • Life - Babys, Costco Executive

      • @Jaye

    • Finances - upgraded American Airlines credit card

    • Travel - Munich, Vienna, Prague by train; Seeing the Cardinals in St Louis

      • Will

    • Project: Funkhaus.music

01:14:15 Predictions! No show note spoilers…

01:20:48 Tired/Wired Lightening Round

Unpressable Buttons

Marco Polo

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In this episode of Music Ed Tech Talk, Robby sits down with Theresa Hoover to discuss AI guidance in music education, creativity in the classroom, task management for educators, and what's new in their professional lives. Topics include NAfME guidance on AI, next-gen Siri, automation workflows, and listener questions about sustaining creativity in a distracted world.

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Show Notes & Links

Intro & Community

• 00:00:00 – Hello and welcome
• 00:00:30 – Thanks to new Patreon supporter, Drew Ross

News, Blogs, and AI Updates

• 00:01:23 – Theresa's newest blog on COPPA and FERPA** - https://offthebeatenpathinmusic.com/play-it-safe/
• Affinity creative apps
• 00:10:30 – What's New in AI

• Next-gen Siri (expected 2026)

  • Tim Cook provides update on next-gen Siri development
  • Sky AI and the impact of OpenAI acquiring Sky

AI Guidance in Music Education

• 00:16:15 – Released guidance in the music education world
• Yamaha: AI in the Music Classroom

• NAfME: Guiding Principles, Frameworks, and Applications for AI in Music Education

  • Classroom policy framing
  • Alignment language for administrators
  • Practical classroom use cases
  • Moises AI Studio — AI-generated, tempo- and harmony-aware accompaniment stems for student compositions and arranging

Higher Ed & Classroom Practice

• 00:24:15 – What is emerging from Theresa's undergraduate classes?

Automation Station

• 00:26:34 – Automation Station & task management
• Concert planning task templates
• Things 3: Organize Your Life

Ask METT

• 00:32:21 – Listener question from Kate Bateman
• How do you manage teaching creativity and having opinions about music in a world where kids won't concentrate on anything for longer than a minute?
• Reference: Drive by Daniel Pink
• 00:41:51 – What is music for for kids?

What's Up With Theresa

• 00:45:18 – New job update
• Wrapping up the doctorate
• 00:52:08 – Is it finally time for forScore and an Apple Pencil?

What's Up With Robby

• 01:00:14 – New OS and first impressions of Apple Vision Pro
• The "wow factor" is actually wow

Music Picks

• 01:13:38
• Robby: The New Tango – Gary Burton & Astor Piazzolla
• Theresa: Afterglow – Saint Motel (Oct. 2025)

Wrap-Up

• 01:17:39 – Where to find Theresa
• TheresaHoover.com
• Pass the Baton - https://passthebatonbook.com/pass-the-baton-podcast/
• Book: Empowering Ensembles with Technology
• 01:20:20 – Farewell… plus Q&A on Theresa's dissertation on music teachers and educational podcasts

Chapters

• 00:00:00 – Welcome & Intro
• 00:00:30 – Patreon Shout-Out
• 00:01:23 – COPPA, FERPA, and Blogs
• 00:10:30 – What's New in AI
• 00:16:15 – AI Guidance in Music Education
• 00:24:15 – Undergraduate Teaching Insights
• 00:26:34 – Automation Station
• 00:32:21 – Ask METT
• 00:41:51 – What Is Music For?
• 00:45:18 – What's Up With Theresa
• 00:52:08 – forScore & Apple Pencil
• 01:00:14 – What's Up With Robby
• 01:13:38 – Music Picks
• 01:20:20 – Final Q&A & Farewell

Where to Find Us

• Robby: robbyburns.com
• Theresa: theresahoover.com

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00:00:00 Cold Open Cold Open: Marvel Slop & Anniversary Release of TMNT

Holiday Curtain Lights https://twinkly.com/

A small diversion into…bars!

Aloha Bars https://aloha.com/

David Protein Bars https://davidprotein.com/

00:10:10 Brand (clap) New (clap) Apple (clap) Products

Robby: New AirPods, New iPhone, New Watch

Pro 17: Used as computer-away-from-desk, really good pictures

Apple Watch Ultra: Much more computery. Stacked with

information. Alarm for when to end classes, water, and more!

Working on myself using my watch!

Jaye: New iPhone

Sweet Baby Air - becoming computer-away-from-desk

Tech in Schools: Digital Cameras on the Rise

Check in and Track Places https://swarmapp.com/

Fantastical Calendar https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fantastical-calendar/id718043190

00:28:03 Lock Screens/Home Screens

Jaye wants to customize MORE!

Referenced Throughout: The Demon Dogs

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/89-do-it-for-the-demon-dogs-with-dr-david-macdonald/id1078105776?i=1000728963549

Agile Tortoise https://agiletortoise.com/

Drafts

Simple Scan

Taking Notes with Draft, ft. Greg Pierce https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/taking-notes-with-drafts-featuring-greg-pierce-season/id1078105776?i=1000411001646

Marco Polo https://www.marcopolo.me/

Focus Friend https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focus-friend-by-hank-green/id6742278016

One Sec https://one-sec.app/

00:47:20 Robby teachers Jaye how to use new buttons! First, Camera!

00:49:04 Action Button

00:51:08 Control Center

00:53:30 Liquid Glass

00:54.53 Three Quick Workflows (put him on the clock folks)

Notion https://www.notion.com/

01:08:33 Music Picks!

Robby: D'Angelo, rest in peace <3

Dilla Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilla_Time

Jaye: IAM - L'école du micro d'argent https://open.spotify.com/album/3atPIVCVIIgak6KeB1ANnK?si=vpaAN3RmSkSHcw-V38zheA

Jaye's Buddy: https://www.raminamirarjomand.com/

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Back to School! In this episode, Robby and David cover Apple upgrades, Obsidian and Craft workflows, automation shortcuts, learning resources, AI in education, and much more.

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Chapters

00:00:00 – iPhone Replacement Plans

00:04:25 – Replacing Apple Watch with Real Watch, Replacing Apples with more Apples

00:11:00 – iOS Windows - Beta Problem or Just Hosed?

00:15:15 – Obsidian (for a minute)

00:17:17 – Just kidding, Finale News

00:26:46 – Okay NOW Obsidian…

00:27:38 – …and Craft

00:45:35 – Video Series Learning Resources??

00:50:54 – Search terms and how to find the basics

00:59:20 – Automation Station: Robby’s “Let’s Go To Work” Shortcut

01:11:30 – Siri News - SirAI

01:16:11 – Technology Dreams

01:22:55 – David Bullies Robby…

01:24:25 – Is EVERYONE cheating their way through college? AI in Education

01:33:18 – NAfME’s AI Guidance Document

Show Notes and Links

• iPhone Replacement Plans

• Patreon – Music Ed Tech Talk

• David’s Last Episode

• Scoring Notes

• OmniGraffle

• Obsidian

• Cory Meals – Building a Second Music Teacher Brain

• Craft

• Obsidian Bases

• Things

• LinkedIn Learning

• Ask.Video

• David Sparks – MacSparky Courses

• The Focused Calendar

• Udemy

• Domestika

• Govee Smart Kettle

• Fantastical

• NYMag – Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College

• NAfME AI Guidance Document

• KPop Demon Hunters

• Merlin Mann Podcasts

Where to Find Us

Robby – robbyburns.com

David - davidmacdonaldmusic.com

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Dorico and Ableton updates, Big Tech Keynotes, and new automation workflows.

Show Notes and Links

• Dorico 6 release announcement

• Dorico 6 Scoring Notes post

• Lamy pens

• MuseClass Shuttering It’s Service

• SmartMusic

• Sam Altman and Jony Ive AI device project

• Childhood’s End (book)

• FoodNoms app

• Google I/O 2025

• Sky App

• Becca Stevens

• I’m With Her – See You Around

• Bon Iver – i,i

• Hvalfugl – En Dag | Oktober EP

• More like K-BOP, amirite? by David MacDonald

• E-40 – Tiny Desk Concert

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Brenna C. Horn-Cronin, Executive General Manager at School Music License, joins the show to discuss how the service empowers music educators to navigate performance licensing ethically and efficiently. We cover administrative advocacy, the future of licensing in education, pricing structures, and more.

Show Notes and Links...

School Music License Resources

• School Music License Website

• News and Announcements

• Options & Prices

• Email: info@schoolmusiclicense.com

• Promo Code: TechTalk10 – 10 % off your first purchase!

Referenced Podcast

• The Brass Junkies Podcast

Chapters

00:00:00 – School Music License Overview

00:06:20 – Working for and with teachers, and calming the fears of “gotchas”

00:08:27 – How the service has positively affected teachers

00:12:10 – What’s coming next?

00:13:35 – Pricing Tiers

00:16:20 – Administrative Advocacy

00:17:58 – Small Scale Licenses

00:20:40 – The importance of educating educators and keeping up with technology

00:22:00 – Visions for other areas of Music Education

00:30:10 – BREAK! Podcasting About Podcasting

00:35:10 – Encouraging LESS technology use (during performances) – how and why

00:42:45 – School Culture and giving credit where credit is due

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Websites are back! Robby redid his blog and Stream Deck setups. The Metallica concert in Vision Pro is awesome. AI tools for musicians have always been useful, and we do some music picks. Big topic: Will and I grade Apple.

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Chapters 00:00:28 - Thanks again, Molly!

00:00:52 - RobbyBurns.com, WordPress!

00:03:48 - Blog Highlights & Websites Are Back

00:13:19 - Ableton Updates

00:17:50 - Yamaha SEQTRAK

00:19:35 - Vision Pro + Metallica

00:24:36 - AI Tools for Musicians

00:34:03 - Automation Corner

00:43:15 - Apple Report Card

00:58:37 - Music Picks and Media Recs

Show Notes Intro

Thanks to our supporters and a special shoutout to Molly.

News and Mini Topics

• The blog has moved! MarsEdit + WordPress

• Recent blog posts:

  • forScore 14.4
  • Practice Pro
  • Apple Account Migration
  • Ableton Updates
  • Yamaha SEQTRAK

AI

• Will’s presentation: AI tools for studio musicians
• Timbaland AI Article – Rolling Stone
• Stop Comparing Yourself to AI

Automation Corner

• Robby redid his Stream Decks at home and at work

• Related:

  • Oxford Word of the Year: “Brain Rot”
  • What Are iPad Kids?
  • Balatro - Wikipedia

Big Topics

• Six Colors Apple Report Card

Music Picks

• Robby

  • Mac Miller
  • New Birth - The Funky Knuckles

  • Will

  • New Panda Bear Album

  • “I’m Deranged” – David Bowie (Lost Highway)

Where to Find Us * Robby - robbyburns.com * Will - willkuhn.com

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Jaye joins the show to discuss how our homescreens reflect our tech setups and most-used apps.

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Chapters

• 00:00:00 – Welcome to the show, Jaye, and the new Music Ed Tech Team

• 00:02:25 – Thank you, Molly!

• 00:03:41 – I…moved…my blog…to Wordpress

• 00:07:11 – Tradeshow Talk

• 00:12:50 – What a shock, we’re back on stationary

• 00:20:00 – Desks, The Series

• 00:22:50 – The Very First “Roast My Home Screen”

• 00:28:25 – Quick Pivot back to Tradeshows, but really it’s a rant about Contacts

• 00:37:07 – Focus Settings and “Roast My Home Screen”

• 01:06:16 – Health Apps

• 01:17:30 – The Pump, by Arnold

• 01:23:30 – Music and Media Recommendations

Show Notes

• See Ya Space Cowboy on Substack

• Music Ed Tech Talk on Patreon

• Robby Burns’ Blog

• MarsEdit by Red Sweater

• Lutefish Products

• Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME)

• Leuchtturm1917 Notebooks

• STABILO Writing Products

• Pilot Vanishing Point Fountain Pens - Goulet Pens

• Field Notes Brand

• ClickUp

• Podcast: “I Don’t Want a Valuable Life Lesson…” (Ep. 69)

• Readwise Reader Now Syncs Highlights to Apple Notes – Music Ed Tech Talk

• Apple iPhone Support – Differentiate or Tone Down Colors

• Gruber on Threads

• Oura Ring

• Lose It! App

• FoodNoms App

• Arnold’s Pump Club

• Björk – Post (Official Shop)

• Ibrahim Maalouf Official Site

• Sam Greenfield on YouTube

• Dolphin Hyperspace on Minaret Records

• Crunchyroll

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Will is here! We discuss forthcoming changes to the show, automation, apps of the year, tech we're thankful for, and some of our favorite media we’ve been engaging with.

This episode was recorded in late December 2024.

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Chapters

00:00:00 Here he goes taking about Dark Souls again

00:08:15 MCU (Muppet Cinematic Universe)

00:15:14 Introducing…Will Kuhn, now a METT Regular! And Jaye, podcast editor!

00:20:23 2025 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year Robby Burns - acknowledgments and thank yous.

00:27:04 Thank you Patreon Supporter Susan!

00:27:46 MacStories’ App of the Year: Delta Emulator

00:40:31 Siri Shortcuts App

00:43:32 Current AI uses - productivity, creativity, philosophy

00:51:31 Robby’s National Board Certification Application and NotebookLM

00:57:51 What are we really trying to do [with AI and our students]?

01:02:58 Three Holiday Topic Blitz - Tech We’re Thankful For; Tech We’re Thankful For In the Workplace; Gifts and Gift Cards

01:16:54 How about music?!

Show Notes and Links

• Robby Burns named 2025 Mike Kovins TI:ME Teacher of the Year.
• (1)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000597634283)
• (2)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000544778961)
• (3)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000544778961)
• (4)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000577043856)
• Robby Burns | creating Music Ed Tech Talk | Patreon
• MacStories
• Delta User Guide | Delta
• (5)(https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-ed-tech-talk/id1538455772?i=1000510317074)
• DJ Apps | Algoriddim
• Google NotebookLM | Note Taking & Research Assistant Powered by AI
• Genesis - In Too Deep (Official Music Video) - YouTube
• Apple Vision Pro - Apple
• PlayStation®5 | Play Has No Limits | PlayStation
• Move — a compact tool for intuitive music making | Ableton
• Harmony Director - Brass & Woodwinds - Musical Instruments - Products - Yamaha USA
• Studio Neat
• Filterworld — Kyle Chayka
• Chase and Status
• Vampire Weekend - Official Website
• Väsen, Hawktail - Väsen & Hawktail
• Home - DOMi and JD Beck
• SAM GREENFIELD | HOME

Where to Find Us

• Robby - robbyburns.com
• Will - willkuhn.com

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1. 79 - Teaching Music Tech, with Gillian Desmarais - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
2. 61 - Music Technology 101, with Heath Jones - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
3. 61 - Music Technology 101, with Heath Jones - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
4. 69 - I Don’t Want a Valuable Life Lesson, I Just Want An Ice Cream - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎
5. 52 - Dorico Updates! with Daniel Spreadbury - Music Ed Tech Talk ↩︎

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Show Notes with Timestamps * [00:00:00] New format - expect more Will * [00:05:30] News * [00:05:45] Widgetsmith update * [00:08:00] Apple updates out * [00:11:00] Stream deck profile for Logic - Notation Central * [00:14:30] Affinity free for educators * [00:17:00] Tonal Energy on Mac through iPhone * [00:19:30] Zildjian headphones * [00:22:00] New Apple products * [00:27:00] Apple Intelligence Preview * [00:35:00] What to do if you are a Finale user * [00:50:00] Segments * [00:50:30] Music of the week * [00:54:00] App of the week * [00:56:00] Media picks aka "something you like"

Links to Resources Mentioned * Widgetsmith for iOS * Apple macOS Updates * Stream Deck Profiles for Logic - Notation Central * Affinity Apps for Educators * Tonal Energy Tuner * Zildjian Drummer Headphones * Apple Vision Pro * iOS 18 Features * Dorico * Conquering Finale by Jason Lafredo * Scoring Notes - Finale’s Finale Episode * Evan Chapman - Reveries * Zoom for Window Management * The Bear - Hulu * Dark Souls III * Golf It!

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Show Notes:

• RetroArch
• OP-Z iPad App
• Twinkly lights
• Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity Is Nearer
• Funkhaus Music
• Teenage Engineering Mic - CM-15
• WillKuhn.com
• Two RSS Apps: Reeder app | Reader app
• The Verge | Daring Fireball | Kottke | Techmeme | MacStories | Ethan Hein Blog
• Delta App for iPad
• Poolside.fm
• Play: Save Videos Watch Later

• ⁃ Ableton Live 12.1

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Show Notes:

• Fantastical

• Music Ed Tech Talk WWDC Episode with Craig McClellan

• Due app

• Things app

• Obsidian

• Craft app

• OmniFocus

• Arc web browser

• Anytune

• Affinity apps

• Canva

• Canva CEO Melanie Perkins thinks the design world needs more alternatives to Adobe

• Dorico

• Musescore

• Scoring Notes

Music, App, Tech Tip of the Week

VELCRO Brand ONE-WRAP Cable Ties, 100Pk, 8 x 1/2” Black Cord Organization Straps, Thin Pre-Cut Design, Wire Management for Organizing Home, Office and Data Centers

Nmixx: Fe3o4: Break

Stray Kids: 5-Star

Classical Session: Hayato Sumino | Apple Music

Bandle

Sequel App

Foodnoms

MusicBox: Save Music For Later

ATEEZ

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Show Notes:

• Watch WWDC Keynote and learn more about upcoming software updates
• Sanebox

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Show Notes:

• Gillian: Website | Spotify | Instagram | LinkedIn
• Steven Bryant - Ecstatic Waters
• [DJ Hapa](https://www.instagram.com/djhovamusic/
• Electronic Music School, Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein
• iPad Pros Podcast - Episode 195 - Gigs and Music Performances with Robby Burns
• Bob Habersat and Shed the Music
• iPad event
• EU links: Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone | Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
• Delta
• AltStore
• Clip app
• Udio
• Notion
• [Music Ed Tech Talk #58 - Second Brain for Music Educators, with Dr. Cory Meals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRFN2RcVMsI
• Kits.AI
• Songwriters Pad
• Splice
• Telefunken
• Video - Only Five People Know the Secret to Making Zildjian’s Iconic Cymbals
• YouTube Music

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Resources

• Hal Leonard Intermediate Band Method
• Beat Elimination as a Means of Teaching Intonation to Beginning Wind Instrumentalists, The Journal of Research in Music Education, Winer 1972
• The Problem of Tonality in Seventheenth Century Music, Delbert M. Beswick, Music, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1950
• Musical Performance: Learning Theory and Pedagogy - Daniel Kohut
• Automating Band Warmups, Teaching Auditory Skill, and Managing My Classroom… With Solfege Bingo

Extra Show Notes from the Podcast Episode:

App of the Week

• Obsidian
• Hook
• Jamulus.io

Album of the Week

• Church on Hell Street - Punch Brothers
• Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Tech Tip of the Week

• Numbers & Fantastical for Batch Events
• Craft App
• Craft episode of Music Ed tech Talk

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Show Notes:

• Joanna Stern Apple Vision Pro Review
• Crouton App
• 3 Soundtrap Projects Your Students Will Love - show notes and complimentary blog post

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Show Notes:

• Music Ed Tech Year in Review 2023, Featuring Jim Frankel

• Scoring Notes - Muse Group Acquires Hal Leonard

• Hookmark

• Fantastical

• Todoist

• Things

• OmniFocus

• Due

• Evernote

• SaneBox

• Slack

• Communication and Collaboration Apps for Music Teams

• Craft

• Obsidian

• Notion

• GoodNotes

• forScore

• Sheet Music Scanner

• PlayScore 2

• Scanner Pro

• Apple Music Classical episode of Music Ed Tech Talk

• Drafts

• Hazel

• TextExpander

• Keyboard Maestro

• Raycast

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Show Notes:

• Jim Frankel - Music Tech Helper

• MusicFirst

• Will Kuhn

• Ryan Van Bibber

• School Music License

• MusicProfessor Videos Now Available in the MusicFirst Classroom

• Meet the MusicFirst Assistant

• Jim’s Podcast - Profiles in Teaching with Technology

• Music of the Week: Guthrie Govan, Sierra Hull w/ Cory Wong

• Eddie Barbash

• Robby’s Action Button Blog Post

• Transpose Chrome Plugin

• App of the Week: Todoist, MusicLM

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Robby and David discuss their current computing devices, favorite gift ideas, and lament the use of Microsoft Teams.

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Show Notes:

Books

• Grading for Growth

• Critique is Creative

• unGrading

• On Music Theory

Software/Services

• Audio Hijack

• 1Password

• Things

• Farrago

• Affinity Apps - Designer / Photo / Publisher

• Musio

• Chat GPT Plus

Gadgets

• Anker 3-in-1 Cube with MagSafe

• Anker PowerCore MagGo

• Material Dock

• AirTags

• Hidrate smart water bottle and Ember smart mugs

Games

• Hori Split Pad Pro

• Super Mario Bros Wonder

• Elden Ring

• Baldur’s Gate 3

• Dave the Diver

• Steam Deck

Pens, Notebooks, Misc.

• Mark One

• Mark Two

• Mark Three

• SideKick Notepad

• Studio Neat Pen Tray

• LightDims

App of the Week:

Robby - Narwal 2

David - Sports Alerts / Fotmob

Music of the Week:

Robby - Braxton Cook: Somewhere In Between

David - Darcy James Argue: Dynamic Maximum Tension

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Use things as they are designed to be used

David - LightDims

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Blog | Book

David - Website

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Elisa Janson Jones joins the show to talk about self-care, social media, and our favorite apps for being productive and healthy.

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Show Notes:

• Elisa Janson Jones

• SnagIt

• Music Educators Creating Online Learning

• The Music Educator’s Guide to Thrive: The Practical Guide for Creating the Lifestyle You Want and the Career You Love - by Elisa Janson Jones

• Music Professor

• Atomic Habits - James Clear

• Insight Timer

• Wim Hof Method Breathing

• myHumanDesign

• Streaks app

• Focus Modes

• Monday.com

• Cleanshot

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Composer Adrian B. Sims joins the show to talk about his career, musical journey, and favorite tools.

Learn more about Adrian and check out his upcoming music catalog here.

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App of the Week:
Robby - Ridiculous Fishing
Adrian - Hevy

Album of the Week:
Robby - Phoenix - Dirty Loops

Adrian - Myth (album) - Wikipedia

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Will Kuhn and David MacDonald return to discuss Logic and Final Cut for iPad, the Ableton Push 3, Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, and the Apple Vision Pro. Robby struggles with his internet connection.

In the Patreon feed: Zelda Talk.

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Show Notes:

• Berklee Connect 2023
• MOLA Berlin 2023
• Push 3
• Half Notes: A comparison of tablet music reader technology experiences - Scoring Notes
• The best iPad score reader for most people 2023 update - Scoring Notes
• Final Cut for iPad
• Logic Pro for iPad
• Dorico 5
• WWDC 2023
• iOS 17 Preview
• iPadOS 17 Preview
• macOS Sonoma Preview
• watchOS 10 Preview
• Apple Vision Pro
• Wine
• Whisky
• John Gruber the Talk Show: Live from WWDC 2023

App of the Week:
Robby - Sequel Will - Whiskey
David - Newzik

Album of the Week:
Robby - KNOWER FOREVER

Will - [1000 Gecs](https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmoCFzuKniN8yTiL701Ardjwq7oMkvnz8

David - WDR Big Band on YouTube

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Blog | Book
Will
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Art by Ryan Bailey.

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Jaye returns to the show to talk about AI, robots, mechanical keyboards, analog habits, Bluey, and focus modes.

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Show Notes:

WHERE TO FIND JAYE

• ChatGPT, Mastodon, and New iPad Apps — Robby BurnsAI
• Connected
• S-GPT
• Robot or Not
• Electronic Music School - Paperback - Will Kuhn; Ethan Hein - Oxford University Press
• Keychron | Wireless Mechanical Keyboards for Mac, Windows and Phones
• Drop + biip MT3 Extended 2048 Custom Keycap Set | Dye-subbed PBT Keycaps | Custom Keycaps
• My new ink: https://www.gouletpens.com/products/robert-oster-black-violet-50ml-bottled-ink?gclid=Cj0KCQjwqNqkBhDlARIsAFaxvwxl8Mk_ACMGMKDYjduT2kf0aVbVOIgUU-nbMsmY4OXVQ7DW0j5m4u8aApb3EALw_wcB
• Holiday Gift Guide 2022, with David MacDonald and Craig McClellan — Robby Burns
• “Sidekick Notepad” graphic notepad by Cortex Podcast. | Cotton Bureau
• Cortex Pocast
• CPG Grey
• Bluey
• Using Focus Modes
• Laid back Camp
• Restaurant to Another World
• Cowboy Bebop
• Attack on Titan
• ClickUp

Show edited by Jaye Mateyko.

Artwork by Ryan Bailey.

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David returns to discuss Apple Music Classical, new updates to Farrago and forScore, and other music tech news.

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Show Notes:

• Raycast
• S-GPT
• Pizza Calculator
• Soulver
• Farrago
• forScore 14
• freesound.org
• Rehearal Automation Blog Post
• Anytune
• Apple Music Classical
• Stream Deck app
• IDAGIO

App of the Week: Robby - DayOne

David - Airalo

Album of the Week: Robby - Makaya McCraven - In These Times David - Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion - Let the Soil Play

Tech Tip of the Week: Robby - Streamdeck StageManager iOS App Workflow with Frarago during class

David - Shazam in Control Center

Where to Find Us: Robby - Blog | Book David - Website

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Theresa returns to talk about going back to school, research tools and workflows, general productivity, and Obsidian.

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Show Notes:

• Theresa’s website
• Dr. Evan Tobias
• Active Shoulder Rests
• Zotero
• Two resources on using Zotero with Obsidian
• https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/thrilled-with-obsidian-readwise-zotero-workflow/24997

• https://pypi.org/project/zotero2readwise/

• Readwise

• Readwise Reader
• Raindrop.io
• Mentioned Obsidian Plugins
• Readwise
• Advanced Tables
• Excel to Markdown Table
• Word Count
• Calendar
• Convert URL to iframe
• Google Calendar
• Minimal Theme
• Guitar Tabs

• Text as Markdown

• HookMark

• Click Up
• Never Miss a Task, with OmniFocus Project Templates – Robbyburns.com
• OmniFocus 4
• ProWritingAid
• Mike’s Music
• Frank Buck
• ClickUp
• Microsoft Loop
• Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain, with Dr. Cory Meals podcast episode
• Craft
• Notion
• Pokemon Sleep

Additional Places to Find Theresa:

• Pass the Baton Book
• Empowering Ensembles with Technology Book
• Summer Courses Theresa is teching
• Active Shoulder Rest

App of the Week:

Robby - MarkEdit

Theresa - Forest

Album of the Week: Robby - Nickel Creek: Celebrants

Theresa Hoover - GoGo Penguin

Tech Tip of the Week: Robby - Drag the proxy icon on Mac

Theresa Hoover - Data vailidation in Google Sheets

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book Theresa Hoover - Website

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Mark Connor (composer, music educator, host of The Everything Band podcast) joins the show. We stay up way past our bedtime to talk about teaching music, music theory, composition, podcasting, our favorite tools, and more.

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Show Notes:

• What is viral jazz? - Easy to recognize and hard to define, a savvy young cohort takes shape
• DOMi & JD BECK
• Thundercat
• Andersen .Paak - Malibu
• Adobe Audition
• Game Changer app - One app for every team
• Mango Baby - Newborn Growth Tracker
• HyperCard
• Scoring Notes
• [Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon](https://darcyjamesargue.bandcamp.com/album/brooklyn-babylon
• LilyPond
• Music Ed Tech Talk - Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain, With Dr. Cory Meals
• Notion - Your wiki, docs, and projects. Together.
• Airr - Podcast app
• Craft - Create documents, make impact
• Obsidian - A second brain for you, forever
• Ulysses - the ultimate writing app for Mac
• Simple Embeds Plug-In for Obsidian - embed YouTube, Noteflight, Flat.io, etc. elements inside of your notes
• Staff Wars
• Mark J. Connor - Two Songs for the Holidays
• Matthew Provino | Sierra Vista MS Band Website and Resources
• Composer on Fire Podcast
• Hooktheory
• Christopher Tin - Civilization composer
• Google Sheets Notation and Sequencer Graphic
• Music Ed Tech Talk #4 - The Most Validating Day of My Life, with Andrew Hitz
• Music Ed Tech Talk #46 - Christopher Bill
• Hindenberg Lite Audio Editor
• TG Tools Plug-Ins for Finale
• Align Move Dynamics Plug-In for Finale
• JW Plug-Ins for Finale
• Hooktheory - create amazing music
• Pocketcasts - Mark’s favorite podcast app
• Overcast - Robby’s favorite podcast app

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Mark - Website

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David MacDonald joins the show to discuss ChatGPT, Mastodon, new creative iPad apps, and more.

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Show Notes:

Music Ed and Tech News

• Top 10 Apps for Music Teachers in 2023
• Freeform
• Jamboard in the Music Classroom
• Freeform
• OmniGraffle
• Obsidian Canvas Feature
• Markdown
• MuseScore 4 Review on Scoring Notes
• Deckset
• Soulver
• DaVinci Resolve for iPad
• Affinity Apps
• Photo
• Design
• Publisher

App of the Week:

Robby - Ivory

David MacDonald - The Eurorack Simulator

Music of the Week:

Robby - Fame - Cipher

David MacDonald - The Books - Lost and Safe

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Mastodon | Blog | Book

David MacDonald - Mastodon | Website

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Show regulars Craig McClellan and Dr. David MacDonald join the show to talk about stuff we like.

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Show Notes:

Music Ed and Tech News

• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 62
• Free Form
• Ableton Note
• Ableton Link in Logic

Books

• Two from Dan Charnas:
• Dilla Time
• Clean Work
• Liz Lerman and John Borstel: Critique is Creative
• New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets By Women Composers

Software

• 1Password Gift Cards
• Farrago
• Affinity Apps - Designer / Photo / Publisher
• Drafts
• AirBuddy
• Fantastical

Services

• Trade Coffee
• YESPLZ Coffee
• Apple Fitness+
• Peloton Educator Pricing
• Headspace for Educators
• Duolingo Family

Hardware and Gadgets

• Apple MagSafe Battery Pack
• AirPods
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Stream Deck Notation Express Stream Deck Profile for Dorico - Notation Central
• Anker 733 Power Bank Anker 733 Power Bank (GaNPrime PowerCore 65W), 2-in-1 Hybrid Charger, 10,000mAh 30W USB-C Portable Charger with 65W Wall Charger, Works for iPhone 13, Samsung, Pixel, MacBook, Dell, and More
• Insta360 Link Webcam

Bags, Pens, and other Misc stuff

The Pen Addict Podcast

Pilot Metropolitan

JetPens.com - Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-kai Ink (Deep Sea) - 6 Cartridges

Rhodia Notepad

Plotter

Tom Bihn Bags

• Paragon
• Medium Cafe
• Freudian Slip
• Peak Design Everyday Backpack
• BAGSMART Electronic Organizer Small Travel Cable Organizer Bag for Hard Drives, Cables, USB, SD Card Grey BAGSMART Electronic Organizer Small Travel Cable Organizer Bag for Hard Drives, Cables, USB, SD Card Grey

App of the Week:

Robby - Spring for Twitter

David MacDonald - Cleanshot X / Spaceteam (Board game version)

Craig McClellan - Timery

Music of the Week:

Robby - Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loneliest Time

David MacDonald - Béla Fleck, Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer: Uncommon Ritual

Craig McClellan - Bonny Light Horseman: Rolling Golden Holy

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Curating your social media experience

David MacDonald - Firefox add-on: Display Anchors https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/display-_anchors/

Craig McClellan - Focus Mode Updates

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

Craig McClellan - Twitter | Website

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Dr. Scott Watson (Professor of Music at Carin University, band director, composer, and YouTuber) joins the show to talk about his favorite technology, tips for rehearsing honors ensembles, his favorite young band compositions, and more!

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Show Notes:

• Scott’s Website
• Scott’s YouTube Channel
• Finale
• Screenflow
• Camtasia
• Canva
• remove.bg
• pixabay
• Descript
• Scott’s posts for the Alfred Blog:
• Listening: https://www.alfred.com/blog/developing-discerning-ears-why-playing-well-only-half-job/
• Phrasing: https://www.alfred.com/blog/good-phrasing-game-changer-achieving-mature-ensemble-sound/

• Intonation: https://www.alfred.com/blog/intonation-game-changer-achieving-mature-ensemble-sound/

• NotePerformer

• Abby Watson’s YouTube Channel, “Music with Ms. Watson": https://www.youtube.com/user/cornmazing
• Timery
• ViDL
• METT Episode (1)(http://www.robbyburns.com/blog/lori-schwartz-reichl)

App of the Week: Robby - AnyTune / Downie
Scott Watson - NotePerformer

Album of the Week: Robby - Arch Echo - You Won’t Believe What Happens Next! Scott Watson - Barbers Overture to School for Scandal: https://youtu.be/Q387-LXIHUA / Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments: https://youtu.be/YyqLnP0hOnI

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Scott Watson - Twitter | Website

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More on Scott:

Dr. Scott Watson is Professor of Music at Cairn University (Langhorne, PA), teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in music composition/arranging, music education and technology. For 35 years he was an instrumental and elective music teacher in the Parkland School District (Allentown, PA), first as high school Director of Bands, then as coordinator of the elementary band/strings program across the district. He is a frequently commissioned composer with more than 100 published pieces for band and strings at all levels that have been performed around the world at venues including the Academy of Music (Philadelphia), the Midwest Clinic (Chicago) and the White House (Washington, D.C.). He is an exclusive composer/clinician for Alfred Publications and a contributor for their Sound Innovations band series. Watson has presented numerous workshops/clinics for music educators, frequently serves as guest conductor/clinician for honor/festival bands, and is the author of the highly regarded music education text, Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity (©2011, Oxford University Press). To learn more, visit www.scottwatsonmusic.com.

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Robby does hot takes on macOS Ventura, iOS and iPadOS 16.1, and new iPads.

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Show Notes:

• Music notation software, macOS Ventura, and Apple Silicon - Scoring Notes
• Belkin mount for Continuity Camera
• Drafts app
• Timery
• State Manager on iPad: How to use the polarizing new feature in iPadOS 16 - 9to5mac.com
• New iPads and iPadOS 16 Announcements from Apple Newsroom
• Gustav Mahler: 10 Symphonies - Rafael Kubelik
• Raindrop IO
• Obsidian
• Instapaper
• Vidimote/Transpose

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Heath Jones (author of Music Technology 101 / Executive Editor and Founder of MuTechTeacherNet) joins the show to talk about teaching music technology, apps we love, and formative musical experiences.

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Show Notes:

• Music Technology 101: The Basics of Music Production in the Technology Lab or Home Studio by Heath Jones | Hal Leonard

• Mutechteachernet.com

• Theresa Hoover

• Theresa’s most recent appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk

• Acapella app

• Jacktrip soundcheck with Christian McBride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmAJNmUb0Ig

• Dawn of the Daw, by Chris Bell

App of the Week:

Robby - Readdle / MacPaw

Heath - PlayScore 2 / JackTrip

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Time Tracking: Toggl / Timery

Heath - Tidal / Novation Launchpad

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Heath - Twitter | Website

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Robby reviews all of the tech on his desk(s).

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Show Notes:

• Read the blog post What’s On My Desk?

• MacBook Pro

• Logitech C920 Pro HD Webcam

• Webcam Light Stand for Live Stream, Selfie Ring Light with Webcam Mount for Logitech

• M-Audio BX5a

• Apple Magic Trackpad, Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse

• StayGo USB-C Hub - Twelve South

• Stream Deck

• Notation Central Stream Deck Profiles for notation software

• OBS / Open Broadcaster Software

• Farrago - Robust, rapid-fire soundboards

• Ableton Push

• Lamy Safari Fountain Pen

• Rhodia Notebooks

• Nomad Phone Charger with spot for Apple Watch

• AKG P 420 Microphone

• Scarlet 6i6 Audio Interface

• microKORG

• Desk most similar to mine that I could find online

• Roland Octopad SPD-30 - Digital Percussion Pad

• Yamaha Harmony Director

• TE Tuner

App of the Week: Mela - recipe manager, Anylist

Music of the Week: Square Peg Round Hole - Reservoir

Robby Burns - Twitter | Blog | Book

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An overview of how I manage my private teaching studio and the tools that assist me.

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Show Notes:

• David MacDonald Unboxes the Odla Music Notation Controller

• What’s On My Desk?

• Soundsource Adds Shortcuts Support

• Automating My Rehearsal Tech Setup

• Wix

• Weebly

• Squarespace

• WordPress

• RobbyBurns.com

• Robby Burns Lessons Page

• Craft

• Craft for Music Educators - podcast episode w/ David MacDonald

• Evernote

• Timery

• TextExpander

• Calendly

• Fantastical

• Acuity

• IDAGIO

• Downie

• AnyTune

• Vidimote Safari Extension for slowing down and speeding up audio on websites

• Transpose pitch speed loop for videos - Chrome Extension

• Tonal Energy Tuner

• Teaching Intonation with Tonal Energy - podcast episode and blog post

• forScore

• forScore for Mac: Review

• Create a forScore Index

• DEVONthink

• Schlage Smart Locks

• Logitech Circle Doorbell

• Starling io

• Stream Deck

• QuickBooks

• MyMusicStaff

• Alfred app - automation friendly replacement for the Spotlight on Mac

App of the Week: Timery | Toggl

Music of the Week: Beyoncé - Renaissance

Where to Find Me:

• Robby Burns - Twitter | Blog | Book

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Dr. Cory Meals joins the show to talk about building a second brain, personal knowledge management apps, and how to keep it all together!

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Show Notes:

• Slide deck from Cory’s Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain Session at TMEA
• A Second (Music Teacher Brain) - Resources from the “Building a Second (Music Teacher) Brain” Session | TMEA 2022
• Book: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
• Evernote
• Notion
• Readwise
• Airr - Podcast App
• Craft
• Roam Research
• Obsidian
• Athens
• Drafts
• DEVONthink
• Craft for Music Educators - podcast episode with Dr. David MacDonald
• Get Organized Digitally! - podcast episode with Dr. Frank Buck
• Pass the Baton - podcast episode featuring Theresa Hoover
• Apps for Research and Remembering - podcast episode with Dr. David MacDonald
• Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students With Filemaker - podcast episode with Ben Denne
• Communication and Collaboration Apps for Music Teams - podcast episode with Ben Denne
• Articles from MacStories.net to help get set up with Obsidian:
• My Obsidian Setup, Part 1: Sync, Core Plugins, Workspaces, and Other Settings
• Obsidian In Depth: Core Plugins (Part 2)

• MacStories Starter Pack: Introducing Obsidian Shortcut Launcher, A Free Plugin to Trigger Shortcuts from Obsidian

• Overcast - Free, simple, award-winning podcast player for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

• Eliminating Canvas Stress by Writing Content in Markdown - my blog post that explains Markdown
• Deckset - app that designs your slides, so you can focus on your ideas
• Obsidian - Discord community and forum
• Taking Notes with Drafts - podcast episode featuring developer Greg Pierce

• Institute for Composer Diversity

• Steinberg Summer Sale

• Poolsuite.fm
• Playdate

Other Recommendations from Cory, not mentioned in the episode:

• Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
• Tiago Forte Interviews Dan Charnas

App of the Week:

• Robby - OnTheWay
• Cory - Carrot Weather

Music of the Week:

• Robby - Poolsuite Mix Tapes | Poolside - Low Season
• Cory - MUETE - Slow Loris | Ak Dan Chil (ADG7) - Yeong Jeong Geo Ri (Live on KEXP)

Where to Find Us:

• Robby Burns - Twitter | Blog | Book
• Dr. Cory Meals - Twitter | Website | University Link

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David William Hearn (composer, arranger, producer, and creator of StaffPad) joins the show to talk about StaffPad, how teachers can use it, and the thought process behind designing great iPad software.

Patreon supporters get bonus discussion about recent tv, movies, and music we have been engaging with. Thanks to my sponsors this month, Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks.

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Show Notes:

• StaffPad
• File Not Found - a generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans | The Verge
• Procreate
• GoodNotes
• Playscore podcast episode featuring Anthony Wilkes
• Dorico
• Noteflight
• MuseClass podcast episode featuring Bob Chreste
• Keyboard Maestro
• Audio Hijack

App of the Week:

Robby - Default Folder X

DWH - Soulver

Music of the Week:
Robby - Button Masher - Origin Story

DWH - Prince

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Universal Clipboard

DWH - Automate stuff

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David William Hearn - Twitter | Website

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Tim Chaten, host of the iPad Pros podcast, joins the show to talk about the announcements at Apple's WWDC Keynote earlier this month.

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Show Notes:

• iPad Pros - A podcast about getting work done on iOS
• iPad Pros Episode 121 – Dorico and Sibelius with Robby Burns
• iPad Pros Episode 130 – Teaching Music with Robby Burns
• Canvas podcast
• Dorico for iPad 2.3 introduces one-off purchase Lifetime Unlock option
• Home+ app
• Hook app
• HOOBS
• Starling io
• NapBot
• EDU Apple Store
• Spark Mail
• Small Cubed Mail Plugins
• Apple in 2021: The Six Colors report card
• Broadcasts app
• Malibu - Anderson .Paak
• Presumed Innocent - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
• Black Patch / The Man Re-Recording
• [Home Widget](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/home-widget-for-homekit/id1579036143
• Outcast Apple Watch App

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Tim Chaten - Twitter | Website

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Bob Chreste joins the show to talk about MuseClass, a free musical assessment management platform from MuseGroup.

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Show Notes:

• MuseClass - https://museclass.com
• MuseGroup - https://mu.se

App of the Week:
Robby - Overcast

Bob - MuseClass - https://museclass.com

Album of the Week:
Robby - Black Radio III - Robert Glasper

Bob - Via Havana - Joachim Horsley

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Make a keyboard shortcut for any menu item on macOS

Bob - Chrome tab groups

Where to Find Me:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

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Anthony Wilkes joins the show to talk about PlayScore 2, a sheet music scanning app. Anthony is the CEO of PlayScore, and in the conversation we talked all about what it can do, the challenges of developing music scanning software, and practical uses for teachers and students.

Patreon supporters receive bonus conversation about machine learning, the future of score scanning software, and automation.

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Show Notes:

• PlayScore 2
• ReadScoreLib
• Dorico 2.2
• An interview with PlayScore creator Anthony Wilkes | Dorico Blog
• Scanner Pro
• PDF Expert
• Documents by Readdle
• Spark Mail
• forScore
• Sheet Music Scanner
• Michael Good, inventor of MusicXML | Scoring Notes podcast interview
• Music XML
• Apple Shortcuts User Guide
• OmniGroup JavaScript Automation
• My Audio Hijack blog post - Audio Hijack 4, Shortcuts, Podcasting Automation
• What’s New in Audio Hijack 4

App of the Week:
Robby - Audio Hijack 4
Anthony - Dorico

Music of the Week:
Robby - Listen to This - Audio Guide Anthony - On BBC’s first ever live broadcast of Beatrice Harrison, featuring cellist Clare Deniz

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Universal Control
Anthony - iPad multitasking

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Anthony - Twitter | Website

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Dr. Frank Buck returns to the show to talk about digital productivity and his new book Get Organized Digitally!

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Show Notes:

• Recent Dorico episode of Music Ed Tech Talk with Daniel Spreadbury
• musescore 4 Alpha
• Craft update
• Craft episode of Music Ed Tech Talk with Dr. David MacDonald
• Ableton Microtuner Blog Post
• Scala Files
• Audio Hijack 4
• Rogue Amoeba episode of Music Ed Tech Talk with Paul Kafasis
• Dr. Frank Buck’s new book: Get Organized Digitally!
• Dr. Frank Buck’s other books
• Todoist
• Craft extension for Todoist
• Evernote
• Remember the Milk
• Hook
• Blog post: Never Miss a Task, with OmniFocus Project Templates
• Task apps:
• Asana
• Tick Tick

• Google Tasks

• Spark mail app

• DEVONthink
• OneNote
• TaskClone
• Calendly
• Fantastical
• Cardhop
• TextExpander
• Text Blaze
• Doodle
• Clipboard apps - Alfred / Pastebot / Yoink
• Peek-a-View - app for sharing a limited part of your camera roll with others

App of the Week:
Robby - MaskerAide

Dr. Frank Buck - Google Lens

Music of the Week:
Robby - Gabriel Kahane: Magnificent Bird

Dr. Frank Buck - US Marine Band YouTube Channel

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Quick Gif with Cleanshot

Dr. Frank Buck - Windows Clipboard History

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Dr. Frank Buck - Twitter | Website

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Daniel returns to the show to discuss the release of Dorico 4 for desktop, Dorico 2 for iPad, Steinberg licensing, and other updates!

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Show Notes:

• Dorico 4
• Dorico 2 for iPad
• Dorico YouTube Channel
• Introducing Steinberg Licensing
• Scoring Notes Review of Dorico 4
• Dorico 4 | Music Ed Tech Talk
• Previous Appearances on this show from Daniel - Dorico | Dorico for iPad
• Club MacStories

Album of the Week:
Robby - Dilla Time Book | Slum Village - Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Jay Dilla Essentials | J Dilla Influences | Inspired by J Dilla Daniel - Horizon Forbidden West Soundtrack Volume 1

App of the Week:
Robby - Audible

Daniel - Raycast

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Whispersync

Daniel - Pi-hole

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Daniel - Twitter | Website

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Krystal Williams joins the show to talk about all of the diverse tools, instructional, and organization strategies she uses to teach a variety of content areas ranging from band to music theory.

Krystal teaches at North Western High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, and is the Technology Chair for the Maryland Music Educators Association.

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Show Notes:

At about the 30-minute mark, Krystal shared her screen and showed off some examples of how she is using the Google Suite to engage her students and organize her classroom materials. See a video excerpt of that part of the conversation here:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IjgP0qHL0eI

Links to things mentioned in the show:

• MMEA Tech Page
• YouTube Embed
• Craft
• Craft episode of Music Ed Tech Talk
• Krystal’s Tech Three:
• Google Classroom/Site/Slides
• Smart Music

• MusicFirst

• OBS

• Hyper-Charging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software
• Classroom Maestro
• AirServer
• Lightspeed
• Getting Young Performers to Compose, Putting the E in Ensemble (And Much More) with Alex Shapiro
• Markdown
• Cory Henry
• Snarky Puppy
• DuPont Brass Band

App of the Week: Robby - Deckset Krystal - Perfect Ear

Album of the Week:
Robby - Aoife O’Donovan - Age of Apathy Krystal - Thundercat - This is Thundercat

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Noir - Dark Mode for Safari Krystal - Repurpose old phones!

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Krystal - Band Director Toolbox Facebook Group | Diary of a Lady Band Director | Diary of a Lady Band Director YouTube Page

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Ben Denne returns to talk about apps we use to communicate and collaborate with our music team.

Where to Find Me

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• My Book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers | Oxford University Press

• My Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks: Audio Only | Audio and Stems ... current on sale

• My appearance on LearnOmniFocus.com (Learn how I manage time and tasks in the music classroom)

Links:

• Slack

• Microsoft Teams

• Discord

• Todoist

• Trello

• Google Docs

• Dropbox

• iCloud Drive/OneDrive

• iWork

• Microsoft Office

• Evernote/Apple Notes

• Airtable

• Notion

• Craft

• Squarespace

• Spark

• Sanebox

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Learn how to teach your students to play in tune by taking advantage of the features of the Tonal Energy tuning app. In this episode, my colleague Ben Denne joins to talk about a comprehensive methodology for teaching your students how to play in tune using their ears, not their eyes.

In the episode, we overview the primary features of TE as they relate to playing with a beautiful tone and intonation. Features include: single and polyphonic tuning drones, modeling just intonation in chords and melody, visualizing pitch, and more!

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• My Book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers | Oxford University Press

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Philosophy:

• Prioritize these...

• Tone

• Intonation

• Balance/Blend

• Melodic Accuracy

• Rhythmic Accuracy

• Expression/Phrasing

• Technique/Articulation

• Sound Over Sight

• If we are asking students to use their ears, then why are we having them use their eyes?

• Natural Learning - think about how children learn to speak. Through modeling from parental figures, constant repetition, and encountering these repetitions in various contexts.

• Electronic tuners can only tune intervals of unisons and octaves accurately.

• We are used to hearing the piano in its slightly “out-of-tune” tempered state.

• Interval Adjustment

• Pure intervals have varying degrees of adjustment from tempered intonation to make them in tune.

• Scale Degree | Adjustment

• 1 | 0

• 2 | +3.9

• 3 | -13.7

• 4 | -2.0

• 5 | +2.0

• 6 | -15.6

• 7 | -11.7

• 8 | 0

• We must teach our students to HEAR when something is out of tune by listening for beats. But how?

• Resonant intonation is the result of two other important features: superior tone and balance.

• Good tone comes first.

• Learning balance is difficult in a room by yourself.

• Use of an electric drone helps.

• Turn the drone up to a level that equals the student.

• Song based learning that utilizes lots of simple melodies in standard keys teaches students to understand basic consonance and dissonance.

• Lots of repetition!!!

• Patients!

• Reinforce that one success does not mean that everything will be in tune from here on out.

• Don’t strive for a perfect intonation system. Resist teaching students the theory of intervals and focus on them hearing consonance and dissonance through listening to the relationships of intervals.

• Once you know what a 5th sounds like, you can tune it anywhere.

• Avoid technical talk unless something is absolutely in a students way.

• Daniel Kohut - Musical Performance: Learning Theory and Pedagogy

• Superior Concept

• Relaxed Concentration

• Focused Awareness

• Reasons teachers give up on teaching intonation this way...

• Fear of other areas of musical performance failing - wrong notes, rhythm, poor technique, inability to execute musically. The solution to this - pick easier music!!!

• Abstract nature of these skills make them less concrete to student minds and harder to teach.

• This is a long road. It takes time. But! - the end reward is ultimately better because students own their critical listening skills and now make musical adjustments themselves, even to features in the music that are not tone and intonation related. Each year will have an upswing towards the end. Independent musicianship is the result.

Features of Tonal Energy

• Overview of each feature and setting - Live Demo

• Strategies

• Everything with drone

• All music taught around tonal centers

• Students tune down to the tonic most immediately beneath where the majority of their part sits

• Students write tonal centers in their method books and concert music

• Analyze mode - Students practice scale patterns and songs in this sequence...

• Visual and aural feedback

• Aural feedback only

• No drone at all

• Practice Guide

• You can balance to the drone

Tell students to match the volume of the drone at various levels.

• Play along melodies with students on a keyboard or on the display

A midi keyboard like the Xkey https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DU2VKV8/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 can play certain key areas in tune perfectly and can automatically tune chords to just intonation. Combined with an iPad, this is like owning a Yamaha Harmony Director.

• In rehearsal: Have students buzz along and find their place in the chord

• Use In-App Audio Apps to make play along tracks

• Making Just Intonation Play-Along Tracks for Your Performing Ensemble (Using Tonal Energy and GarageBand)

GarageBand for iOS allows easy creation of engaging play along tracks by using TE Tuner as a plugin and combining its sounds with other instruments.

Video demos of Inter App Audio Apps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgypjhNPL0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmyw1j0vb4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWsHqD816rw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8dNCEbPro

• Tools for Making Play-Along Tracks

• Yamaha Harmony Director

• My Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks (CURRENTLY ON SALE)

• Farrago

• GarageBand Drummers

• Shure BLX14/PGA31 Wireless Headworn Microphone System

• Band in a Box

• My NAfME Article about teaching music in unison, making practice resources, and using drones/beats - Always Start from the Beginning: Developing Tone Quality, Intonation, Concert Repertoire, and Classroom Management through Unison Playing in Performing Ensembles

More Resources:

• Hal Leonard Intermediate Band Method

• Beat Elimination as a Means of Teaching Intonation to Beginning Wind Instrumentalists, The Journal of Research in Music Education, Winer 1972

• The Problem of Tonality in Seventheenth Century Music, Delbert M. Beswick, Music, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1950

• Musical Performance: Learning Theory and Pedagogy - Daniel Kohut

• Automating Band Warmups, Teaching Auditory Skill, and Managing My Classroom… With Solfege Bingo

Extra Show Notes from the Podcast Episode:

App of the Week

• Obsidian

• Hook

• Jamulus.io

Album of the Week

• Church on Hell Street - Punch Brothers

• Encanto (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Tech Tip of the Week

• Numbers & Fantastical for Batch Events

• Craft App

• Craft episode of Music Ed tech Talk

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Friends of the show join to answer burning questions about music, education, and technology in 2021 (and beyond).

Patreon subscribers get some extra discussion about Dune and Foundation. Thanks to this month's new Patreon supporters, Emmanuel and Kristin!

Thanks to this month's sponsor, Light the Music!

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Show Notes:

• David MacDonald, composer
• Scoring Notes - Will Kuhn
• Will Book 1 - Electronic Music School
• Will Book 2 - Interactive Composition
• The Class Nerd Podcast
• Jon’s new song - Another Night
• Obsidian - a second brain for you, forever.
• Craft - Taking notes to the next level
• Craft episode of Music Ed Tech Talk –> (1)(http://www.robbyburns.com/blog/47-craft-for-music-educators-with-dr-david-macdonald)
• OBS Studio (Open Broadcaster Software)
• OBS Cam app
• How to set up and use a Focus on iPhone and iPad
• DJI Pocket 2 camera
• Slack - a new way to communicate with your team.
• Todoist
• Trello
• Muse meditation headband
• Kirk Franklin
• Robby’s book - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
• Hazel - Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create.
• How to Organize Your Mac’s Desktop with Stacks in macOS Mojave
• Add your Desktop and Documents files to iCloud Drive
• File Not Found, a generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans | The Verge
• I Gave My Mom a Crypto Wallet: A Simple Guide to NFTs, Blockchain and More | The Wall Street Journal
• Dyson cordless vacuum
• Pen Chalet
• iRobot Brava
• How Machines Learn - CPG Grey
• The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
• Google is trying to make its image processing more inclusive
• iPad Mini
• Shure SM7B Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone
• Elago Ring Light
• Ableton Push 2
• APC 40
• Instapaper - Save Anything. Read Anywhere.
• AirPods Max
• Tom Bihn Bags
• Tom Bihn Synik 30
• Tom Bihn Road Buddy Duffel 36
• Tom Bihn Parental Unit - Robby’s bag for baby stuff
• Peloton Digital
• Headspace for Educators
• Will’s car - Fiat Dino Spider (1967)
• Soda Stream Fizzy One Touch
• Matter - smart home alliance
• Teenage Engineering
• Playdate
• Apple VR AR Rumors - Bloomberg
• Soothe2 vocal processer
• Band in a Box
• iReal Pro
• Robby’s play along tracks
• Pianoteq 7
• Loopback - cable-free audio routing for Mac
• OP1
• OPZ
• The Dirty Loops and Cory Wong - TURBO
• The Wheels on the Bus - Cocomelon
• Julius Eastman: Stay On It
• Sound Painting
• Animal Collective - My Girls
• One of a Kind | Vivo
• POWRIG 6" Elastic Cable Ties Bungee Cords Adjustable Cable Management Reusable - Red (10-pack)
• DEVONthink - Get Organized – Unleash Your Creativity
• OmniFocus - Accomplish more every day
• The Verge - EMAILS shirt
• Loki
• Foundation
• Only Murders in the Building
• Doom Patrol
• Chillin Island
• The Expanse
• Animal Crossing
• The Breath of the Wild
• Overcooked 2
• Star Wars Squadrons
• Dark Souls
• Fortnight
• League of Legends
• Google Stadia
• The Plot Thickens by Turner Classic Movies
• Hit Parade
• Sound Expertise
• William Robin | musicologist
• Robot or Not
• Do By Friday
• Election Profit Makers
• The 4-Hour Chef - The best steak recipe I have is in this book
• Recent episodes of Music Ed Tech Talk that the guests have been on:
• (2)(http://www.robbyburns.com/blog/20-electronic-music-school-with-will-kuhn)
• (3)(http://www.robbyburns.com/robbyburnsandfriends/bmw9wc09qe3qk7xfyh5l2rrctn6qnw)
• (4)(http://www.robbyburns.com/blog/47-craft-for-music-educators-with-dr-david-macdonald)
• (5)(http://www.robbyburns.com/robbyburnsandfriends/34-new-software-coming-from-apple-and-what-you-can-do-with-it-with-craig-mcclellan)

Album of the Year - Nate Smith: Kinfolk 2 | Stevie Wonder: Talking Book | Magdalena Bay: Murcurial World | John Mayer: Sob Rock | Cory Wong and Dirty Loops: Turbo

App of the Year - Obsidian | Fin Timer | OP-Z App | Pixelmator Photo | Molskine Actions

Tech Tip of the Year - Focus Modes (some discussion about how I am using these on episode 44 of this show) | camelcamelcamel.com | Use OBS for everything | Feedbin | Press and hold the spacebar on iOS to move your cursor around

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1. 47 - Craft for Music Educators, with Dr. David MacDonald ↩
2. 20 - Electronic Music School, with Will Kuhn ↩
3. 1 - The Inner Game of Everything, with Jon Tippens ↩
4. 47 - Craft for Music Educators, with Dr. David MacDonald ↩
5. 34 - New SOftware Coming from Apple (And What You Can Do With It), with Craig McClellan ↩

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David rejoins the show to talk about how we use Craft, an extremely versatile, elegant, and powerful app for the web, iOS, and macOS devices. Subscribe to the Blog…

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Show Notes:

• Example of listener submission, Mr. Ehler’s, Resource for All Band Students (created entirely in Craft)
• Audacity 3.1 is out now!
• Fender acquires PreSonus
• Dorico 4, planned for early 2022, will be first Steinberg product to use new licensing system
• Craft
• OmniFocus
• Bear
• Markdown Blog Post
• iA Writer
• Obsidian
• Todoist
• Trello
• Rome Research
• Notion

App of the Week

Robby - Documents

David - GoodReader

Music of the Week

Robby - NPR Top 50 of 2021

David - Silk Sonic

Tech Tip of the Week

Better Touch Tool

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

David - Twitter | Website | Blog

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Christopher Bill joins the show to talk about the musicianship, hardware, software, and creative process behind his viral YouTube channel, Classical Trombone.

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Show Notes:

• Focusrite Control
• TEM240 - episode featuring Christopher Bill
• TBJ133 - featuring Christopher Bill
• Halloween 2021: Don’t Fear the Reaper! (Trombone Cover)
• Christopher Bill Guide to Remote Music Education
• Christopher Bill’s Multitrack Editing 101
• Shure X2u
• Robby’s Virtual Teaching Setup
• Royer R-121 Studio Ribbon Microphone
• Focusrite Scarlet Solo
• Adobe Premiere Elements
• Ableton Live
• Clip Champ - video editing software for Windows
• Davinci Resolve - video editing software
• Izotope
• Loopback
• Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps - Music Ed Tech Talk Episode, featuring Paul Kafasis
• Open Broadacaster Software
• Virtual Audio Cable VAC
• Audio Jack
• Farrago - Soundboard app for Mac
• Audio Hijack
• Automatic Instrument Rental Forms, with Keyboard Maestro
• AutoHotkey (Windows version of KB maestro)

App of the Week

Robby - Keyboard Maestro

Christopher - Flic

Music of the Week

Robby - My Bluegrass Heart - Béla Fleck

Christopher - Don’t Lose Sight - Song by Lawrence | Dirty Loops - Rollercoaster | How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful - Florence and the Machine

Tech Tip of the Week

Robby - NFC stickers

Christopher - OVOU Business Card

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Christopher - Twitter) | Website | YouTube

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David MacDonald joins Robby to share their favorite books, hardware, apps, services, and musical gift ideas.

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Show Notes:

• METT #43 - iOS 15 and macOS Monterey with Paul Shimmons
• Scoring Notes - Music notation software, macOS Monterey, and Apple Silicon M1 Macs
• Scoring Notes - Use Shortcuts to quickly create score templates on macOS and iOS | Robby Burns
• Noteflight Blog - Connecting the Strands: Teaching Melody and Harmony Writing with Ukulele, Noteflight, and Soundtrap | Robby Burns
• David’s last appearance on this show to talk about smart speakers
• Chris Russell’s recent appearance on this show to talk ukuleles
• Musician’s Friend Stupid Deal of the Day

Books

• Scott L. Phillips - Beyond Sound
• V.J. Manzo - Foundations of Music Technology
• Will and Ethan episode
• Will Kuhn, Ethan Hein - Electronic Music School
• Jorge Variego - Composing with Restraint
• Peter Perry - Technology Tips for Ensemble Teachers
• Robby Burns - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
• Ronald Kearns - Recording Tips for Music Educators
• The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy edited by Lee VanHandel
• Kathryn Finch, Theresa Hoover - Pass the Baton
• Sarah Urist Green - You Are An Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation

Hardware

• HomePod mini
• iPad mini
• MacBook Pro
• AirPods
• Elgato Stream Deck

More Hardware

• Scoring Notes Podcast
• Notation Central Stream Deck Profiles
• AT2020
• AKG P 420
• Røde Lavalier Go
• Røde Wireless GO II
• Scarlet Focusrite Audio Interfaces
• Twelve South StayGo | USB-C Hub
• Amazon Basics Studio Headphones

Software

• Rogue Amoeba Apps - Fission | Audio Hijack | Loopback | SoundSource | Farrago - Offers educator discount
• Drafts
• Craft - Offers educator discount
• OmniFocus - Offers educator discount
• Things
• Dorico - Offers educator discount
• StaffPad
• An evening with StaffPad - YouTube

Services

• Headspace for Educators
• Calm Schools
• Peloton Digital Teacher Discount
• Nebula

Misc

• Anker Nebula Capsule Projector
• Whoosh
• Nintendo Switch Online Subscription
• Atoms Shoes
• Bombas socks
• MacSparky Field Guides
• Paperless Field Guide
• Mac Pro Video
• Dorico Course - Leo Nicholson
• Skillshare
• Lamy Safari Fountain Pens
• Lush
• The Four Hour Chef
• Momofuku Cookbook

Music of the Week

Robby - Sarah Jarosz

David - Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Tech Tip of the Week

Robby - Focus Modes

David - CopyChar.cc

Where to Find Us:

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David - Twitter | Website | Blog

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Dr. Peter Perry joins the show to talk about the software and hardware we use in rehearsals, his book Technology Tips for Ensemble Directors, and our recent favorite music, apps, and tech tips.

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Show Notes:

• Dr. Peter Perry's book → Technology Tips for Ensemble Directors

• File Not Found: A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans

• iOS 15 and macOS Monterey - Music Ed Tech Talk

• Take, Leave, Transform! What Do We Keep from Last School Year? - Robby Burns (NAfME)

• Get Back into the Rehearsal with Technology - Peter Perry (NAfME)

• Shure wireless mic

• TE Tuner

• GoodNotes

• forScore

• iStroboSoft

• Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks

• Focusrite Scarlet Solo

• AT2020 Microphone

• Twelve South StayGo USB Hub

• BandLab

• Soundtrap

• Zoom audio recorders

• Focus Modes

• Rogue Amoeba Apps - Loopback | Soundsource | Audio Hijack | Fission

• Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps with Paul Kafasis | Music Ed Tech Talk

• iReal Pro

• Band in a Box

• AirServer

• Classroom Maestro

• Kahoot

• Black Binder

• Dorico

Music of the Week

Robby - Astor Piazzolla and Gary Burton - The New Tango

Peter - Tony Benett and Lady Gaga - Love for Sale

App of the Week:

Robby - Craft

Peter - Izotope RX9

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Peter - Twitter | Website

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Paul Shimmons returns to the show to talk about the features in Apple’s new operating system updates, and how we plan to use them.

Patreon subscribers get a bootleg version of the recording, without the ads, and including bonus conversation about notation apps on iPad.

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Show Notes:

• Dorico for iPad: First Impressions | Music Ed Tech Talk

• Sibelius for iPad, Featuring Joe Plazak | Music Ed Tech Talk

• iOS 15

• macOS Monterey

• OmniFocus

• DEVONthink

• Never Miss a Task, with Project Templates | Music Ed Tech Talk

• The Class Nerd podcast - Craig McClellan and Robby Burns

• AirServer

• Twelve South StayGo | USB-C Hub

• The Breathing Gym

• My Scale Exercise Play Along Tracks

• OmniOutliner

• My blog post about Safari extension on iOS

• Some Monterey Features of Note - MacSparky

App of the Week

Paul - Ultimate Drill Book

Robby - Sofa

Music of the Week

Paul - Powerhouse - White Heart

Robby - Cory Henry - Best of Me

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Paul - Twitter | Website

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Theresa returns to talk about career changing, COVID practices worth bringing into this school year, productivity apps, and empowering student creativity!

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Thanks to my sponsors this month, Blink Session Music.

Show Notes:

• Blink Session Music
• 14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, With Theresa Hoover Ducassoux
• Using Jamboard in the Music Classroom
• Craft
• Obsidian
• Light the Music
• Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students (Kathryn Finch, Theresa Hoover)
• Pass the Baton YouTube Channel
• Jodie Blackshaw | Composer
• Alex Shapiro - Putting the E in Ensemble
• Alex Shapiro’s appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk

App of the Week:
Robby - Instapaper / Readwise Theresa - Kumospace

Album of the Week:
Robby - Turbo Theresa - Cory Wong

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Safari Tab Groups, Sync Safari and Chrome bookmarks with a Windows PC Theresa - Chrome Reading List / Favicons Favorite Bar

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Theresa - Twitter | Website

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Joe Plazak (Principal Software Engineer and Designer) joins the show to talk about Sibelius for Mobile and their new iPad app. This episode is sponsored by Blink Session Music: Because Virtual Lessons Are More Than a Video Chat.

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Show Notes: * Blink Session Music * Sibelius for Mobile * Scoring Notes Interview with Joe Plazak and Sam Butler - The history and future of Sibelius for iPad * SetApp

App of the Week:
Robby - CleanShot
Joe - Tips

Album of the Week:
Robby - Jack & Owane - Part One: Shredemption
Joe - Pomplamoose - Impossible à prononcer

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Make your own custom keyboard shortcuts
Joe - Hold the spacebar on iPhone to get a cursor

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Seth Sandler, maker of the poplar mobile tuner app Tunable, joins the show to talk about the process of making a tuning app, developing for iOS/Mac, and more!

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Show Notes:

• Tunable
• Seth’s Tweets showing a piano widget
• NodeBeat
• Dr. Betotte
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts, on Music Ed Tech Talk
• DEVONthink
• OmniFocus
• Drafts
• GoodNotes

App of the Week: BusyCal

Album of the Week: Chris Thile - Laysongs Acapella Musicals on Spotify

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Seth - Twitter

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Robby is getting ukuleles to teach general music this year. Chris Russel (tech and ukulele specialist) joins the show to talk about how to get the best use out of them. We also talk about the state of tech in music ed.

Full Topics:

• Ukulele pedagogy
• Where to find ukulele resources online
• How to integrate ukulele and technology
• The state of technology in music education
• Apple’s App-centric and native approach to education vs. Google’s web-centric approach
• Our favorite apps, albums, and tech tips of the week
• The tools and process Chris uses to make ukulele play-along videos on his iPad (in the post-show for Patreon subscribers)

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Show Notes:

• Teaching Music Through Composition - Barbara Freedman
• Dr. Jill Reese ukulele Videos on YouTube
• Dr. A ukulele Videos
• UkeStuff YouTube Page
• Rachel Webley - ukulele Play Alongs and Resources
• Andy Ramos - Stum Alongs
• Kris Gilbert Uke YouTube Channel
• Dr. Uke
• Joe Weiss - UkeAbility - type in chords you know and get a links to ukulele play alongs using those chords
• Chris Russel and Paul Shimmons appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk to talk about StaffPad
• UkeHunt.com
• Dr. Robin Giebelhausen - YouTube Channel
• Jowoom T2 Smart Tuner
• Kids Strings
• Leather picks - Stones Music
• Chris Russel’s appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk about Apple’s education event
• Jamf
• WeVideo
• Neural Mix Pro
• LALAL.AI
• Spleeter - for removing vocals and instruments
• What the Forecast?!!
• Nano - Reddit for Apple Watch

App of the Week: Robby - Carrot Weather Chris - PDF Expert / TikTok / Vegas Bowling Apple Watch App

Album of the Week: Robby - Squint - Julian Lage Chris - Safe Haven - Ruth B / The Show - Lenka

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Chris - Twitter | Websites - Techinmusiced.com / Ukestuff.info / Youtube.com/ukestuff / youtube.com/ukeplayalongs

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Robby discusses the practices and technology we should TAKE, LEAVE, and use to TRANSFORM teaching next year.

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Show Notes:

• What Do We Keep? - Session Notes from the Conference
• What Do We Keep? - NAfME Blog
• My recent appearance on the MusicFirst Podcast
• Remix Assignment Blog Post
• Remix Assignment YouTube Tutorial
• Putting the E in Ensemble Curriculum and Resources
• Podcast Interview with Alex Shapiro
• The virtual performance referenced in the video was the Ellicott Mills Middle School Woodwind Quintet performing Divertimento for Woodwind Quintet (Joseph Haydn)
• David MacDonald and I talk about apps for Research and Remembering
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts, appearance on this show
• Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne

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Dorico is out for iPad! Daniel Spreadbury (Product Marketing Manager) joins me to talk about it. Subscribe to the Blog… RSS | Email Newsletter Subscribe to the Podcast in… Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

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Show Notes:

• Dorico, featuring Daniel Spreadbury (Season 3, Episode 2)
• Dorico website
• My blog post–> Dorico for iPad: First Impressions
• Video demo of Dorico for iPad

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Robby and David compare smart speakers, their assistants, and their smart home ecosystems. This episode covers the HomePod, Google Nest, Amazon Echo, Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, Sonos speakers, and the various quirks that result from trying to use them in combination. Backstage Access Patreon supporters get extended conversation about Apple Notes, DEVONthink, Standard Music Font Layout compatibility, FileMaker databases, student motivation, grading (and ungrading), and sticker charts. Subscribe to the Blog… RSS | Email Newsletter Subscribe to the Podcast in… Apple Podcasts | Overcast | Castro | Spotify | RSS

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Show Notes:

• Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)
• Zach Gage apps
• Apple Arcade
• Scoring Notes: Learning how to use music notation software
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 34 - WWDC 2021
• Soro- Sonos Siri Shortcuts app
• Scary Pockets vinyl Patreon
• _DavidSmith apps–> Watchsmith and Widgetsmith
• Stream Deck
• My appearance on the MusicFirst podcast
• My podcast featuring Rogue Amoeba CEO Paul Kafasis

App of the Week:
Robby - HomeRun 2
David MacDonald - Letterpress

Album of the Week:
Robby - Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant
David MacDonald - Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Ursula Oppens | The People United Will Never Be Defeated - Kaj Schumacher | Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

Tech Tip of the Week:
Robby - Use a clipboard manager
David MacDonald - New stream deck store!

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Composer Alex Shapiro joins the show to talk about a little bit of everything!--> getting young students to compose, the importance of composing repertoire for young musicians, writing electro-acoustic music, her curriculum Putting the E in Ensemble, the social implications of modern and future technology, her amazing studio space, and more. Join Patreon for extended conversation about technology and overcoming blocks in the creative process.

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Putting the E in Ensemble Links

Curriculum: - https://www.alexshapiro.org/Shapiro-E-ensemble_Syllabus.html

Wind Band music: - https://www.alexshapiro.org/ASWindBand.html

Show Notes:

The Great Hack - Netflix

The Social Dilemma - Netflix

Christopher Cicconi appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk

Off the Edge - Alex Shapiro

Tight Squeeze - Alex Shapiro

Rock Music - Alex Shapiro

Count to Ten - Alex Shapiro

Toothpaste privacy Tweet thread

Apple WWDC 2021

My Scale Play-Along Tracks

App of the Week:

Robby - Magnet

Alex - Two Dots / SpellTower

Album of the Week:

Robby - Sarah Jarosz - Blue Heron Suite

Alex - O Seguinte é Esse / Howling, featuring RY X and Frank Wiedemann: Sacred Ground

Tech Tip of the Week:

Robby - Try widgets!

Alex - Back up your stuff! / Let other people beta test

Where to Find Us: Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Alex - Twitter | Website

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Robby and Craig break down the announcements from Apple’s Word Wide Developer Conference and discuss how teachers might use the upcoming features to their latest software updates.

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Description

Robby overviews his three most successful Soundtrap projects in 2021.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:00:14 - Sponsor: DMV Percussion Academy
• 00:01:24 - About this Episode
• 00:03:51 - YAY SUMMER
• 00:05:11 - 1: Melody Composition / Loop Accompaniment
• 00:14:35 - 1: Student Examples
• 00:16:15 - 2: Row Your Boat Multi-Track
• 00:22:19 - 2: Student Examples
• 00:24:27 - 3: All Star Remix
• 00:34:38 - 3: Student Examples
• 00:36:00 - Grading for Mastery Not Creativity
• 00:37:47 - Tech Tip of the Week
• 00:39:20 - App of the Week
• 00:40:00 - Album of the Week
• 00:42:44 - Conclusion

Show Notes:

• Noteflight
• Soundtrap
• MusicFirst
• How to Make a Song Remix Project in Soundtrap (Blog Post and YouTube Video)
• Reddit: Isolated Vocals
• Neural Mix Pro
• Lalal.ai

App of the Week:
Reeder 5

Album of the Week:
Alison Balsom - Paris

Where to Find Us:

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Ethan and Will join the show to talk about their book Electronic Music School, the Prime Directive, writing apps, and the future of the iPad.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:01:25 - Sponsor: DMV Percussion Academy
• 00:02:03 - Star Trek
• 00:04:18 - Electronic Music School
• 00:10:09 - Teaching Underlying Musical Concepts of Electronic Music Styles
• 00:18:33 - Perceived Threat by Traditional Performing Arts Teachers
• 00:24:28 - Teaching Songwriting
• 00:27:23 - Scaffolding
• 00:37:15 - Fighting Racism with Music Education
• 00:48:37 - The Prime Directive
• 00:52:34 - Staying Relevant?
• 01:07:15 - We Live on Twitter
• 01:07:15 - Writing Apps
• 01:13:21 - Bedtime
• 01:16:07 - The M1 iPad Pro
• 01:35:51 - Tech Tip of the Week
• 01:38:14 - Album of the Week
• 01:41:07 - App of the Week
• 01:43:24 - Closing

Show Notes:

• Electronic Music School - PRE ORDER NOW
• Ethan’s student’s songwriting projects: example 1 | example 2 | example 3
• Vektroid / Macintosh Plus - Bandcamp | Floral Shoppe | Twitter | Neo Cali full album
• Scrivener
• OmniOutliner
• MindNode
• Music Ed Tech Talk #31 - forScore for the Mac, featuring David MacDonald
• AirServer
• Poolside.fm
• Toggle Rotation Lock when Using YouTube

App of the Week:
Robby - Tot
Will - In Haler Radio
Ethan - Figure

Album of the Week:
Robby - Tauk - Shapeshifter II: Outbreak
Will - Suburban Lawns - Janitor (Original Video)
Ethan - Clipping - The Deep

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Will - Twitter | Website
Ethan - Twitter | Website

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Robby and David talk about forScore for the Mac and its new syncing feature. But also, lots of music theory.

Also included:

• Loop-based music theory
• GoodNotes for the Mac
• Transcribe Apps
• Tech podcasts we like
• Music YouTubers we like
• Our favorite music, tech tips, and albums of the week

Show Notes:

• David's other appearances on this show: #30 - Apps for Research and Remembering | #16 - Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech | #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music
• Adam Neely
• 12tone
• What Key is Sweet Home Alabama In?
• What Key is Hey Joe In?
• Philip Tagg
• Robby’s Tweet Thread about teaching music theory to middle school students
• Megan Lavengood Twitter
• Megan Lavengood appearance on Sound Expertise
• Will Robin Twitter
• forScore for the Mac
• Daring Fireball
• The Talk Show
• John Gruber and Ben Thompson on what makes the iPad the iPad
• Indexing a forScore Real Book
• Mac Catalyst
• David MacDonald Scoring Notes iPad score reader blog post
• AirServer
• GoodNotes
• Broadcasts app
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Fission audio editor
• DJay app
• Neural Mix Pro
• Anytune
• Transcribe!
• Transcribe+
• The Amazing Slow Downer
• Darcy James Argue
• Darcy James Argue Secret Society - Brooklyn Babylon Score
• Filmic Pro
• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe Premiere
• Setapp
• Loopback
• OmniGraffle

App of the Week:
Robby - Soro for Sonos
David MacDonald - Diagrams

Album of the Week:

Robby - Lettuce - Elevate
David MacDonald - Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society - Brooklyn Babalyon

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Composer and teacher, David MacDonald, returns for a discussion about the apps we use for notes, research, writing, and clipping data to find later.

Other topics:

• What kinds of work goes in which kinds of apps
• Digital research tools
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Streaming / virtual teaching tools
• Music theory YouTubers
• Zooming in to your Mac screen
• Quickly taking a screenshot with the Apple Pencil
• Our favorite music and apps of the week

Show Notes:

• Craft app
• Logic
• Audio Hijack
• Descript
• Evernote
• MarginNote
• DEVONthink
• Pinboard
• Bear Notes
• Drafts
• Greg Pierce, developer of Drafts - Guest appearance on this show
• Ulysses
• NAfME Blog Post 1 - Digital Organization Tools for Music Educators
• NAfME Blog Post 2 - Apps to Help With Time Management and Planning
• GoodNotes
• Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald (the one where we talk about GoodNotes)
• Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech, with David MacDonald (the one where we talk about streaming)
• Kindle Paperwhite
• Susan Blum - Ungrading
• Instapaper
• Readwise
• MindNode
• OBS blog post - Hypercharging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software
• Stream Deck
• Philip Ewell
• Adam Neely - Music Theory and White Supremacy
• 12tone on YouTube

App of the Week: Robby - Stream Deck Mobile App David MacDonald - Reincubate Camo & FiLMiC Pro

Album of the Week: Robby - Owane | Yolo EP Vol. 1 David MacDonald - Scary Pockets YouTube channel

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald - Twitter | Website

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Robby explains how he uses Noteflight, Soundtrap, and Flipgrid to create engaging, asynchronous, assignments for students in his performing ensembles.

Show Notes

• Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software - Video and Blog Post
• TMEA Session Notes
• Noteflight
• Soundtrap
• Flipgrid
• Scanner Pro
• Scanbot
• Sheet Music Scanner App
• METT Episode 28 - Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely
• Learn more about Noteflight on METT #13 - Exploring Noteflight Learn, with John Mlynczak
• Learn more about Soundtrap on METT #12 - Making Music and Podcasts Using Soundtrap, with Meredith Allen
• Learn more about Flipgrid on METT #14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, with Theresa Hoover Ducassoux

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Robby explains the software, hardware, and teaching strategies he uses to run engaging and effective music rehearsals in a remote or hybrid environment.

This information was presented earlier this month at the Maryland Music Educators Association conference. The notes and links below are from the session notes of that presentation.

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Abstract

Learn the strategies and technologies to run engaging synchronous rehearsals. Engage students visually and speed up your flow using Open Broadcasting Software. Pump the sound video/music/play-along tracks directly through Zoom or Google Meet for a lag-free experience. Explore play along with resources, student reflection with Google Docs, effective camera/mic practices, and have students working collaboratively in synchronous chamber ensembles with Soundtrap! Software discussed includes: Keynote, Google Slides, Loopback, Soundsource, Farrago, AnyTune, Soundtrap, Smartmusic!

Links

Broadcasting Software

• Open Broadcaster Software
• Blog Post: Hyper-Charging Online Classes with OBS
• AirServer
• Stream Deck
• Teaching Tech: Live keyboard overlay in Zoom (This Page Left Intentionally Useless - David MacDonald’s blog)
• Virtual Camera Plug-in
• Instructions for setting up AirServer as a scene in OBS
• Streamlabs OBS
• Tip! - In order to zoom in on your screen on a Mac while presenting, you can do the following: Go to System Preferences—>Accessibility—>Zoom and check on “Use scroll gesture with moifier keys to zoom.” I set up my modifier key as Control so that when I hold Control and scroll up, my screen zooms in.

Audio Routing

• Loopback
• Blog Post: Routing Audio From Your Apps Directly Into Your Zoom or Google Meet with Loopback
• Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps - Interview with CEO Paul Kafasis
• Black Hole
• Soundsource
• VB-Audio
• Presonus Revelator Mic (comes with Loopback-like software and Studio One recording software)
• Soundboard apps

Making Play-Along Tracks

• Audio Hijack
• Pietzo
• Farrago
• AnyTune
• Amazing Slow Downer
• Transcribe!
• Smart Music
• Mainstage
• Apple Pro Apps Bundle - Educator Discount

Visual Presentation

• forScore
• GoodNotes
• Classroom Maestro
• VMPK
• Jamboard

Recommended Hardware

• Scarlet Solo (audio interface)
• Audio Technica AT2020 (microphone)
• External monitor
• Twelve South StayGo USB Hub
• Elago Stream Deck
• Stream Deck app - turns your mobile device into a stream deck for a small subscription price

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Shawna Longo joins the show to talk about our hybrid teaching gear, social emotional learning, cloud-based music tools, and our favorite apps/albums/tech tips of the week.

Topics include:

• COVID hybrid teaching strategies
• Teaching hardware (on a cart!)
• Teaching performance virtually
• social emotional learning
• music tools in the cloud
• the Canvas mastery grade book

Show Notes:

• Shawna’s Microphone (Presonus Revelator)
• Shawna’s Generic AirPods (Altec Lansing True Evo Air Wireless Earbuds w/ wireless charging case)
• Universal Control app
• Loopback
• Rogue Amoeba
• Music Ed Tech Talk episode #23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Presonus Studio One
• Develop Performance Skills Remotely with Cloud Software - My Presentation at the Texas Music Educators Association conference
• Rehearse Your Ensembles Remotely! - My Presentation at the MarylandMEA conference (Session Notes)
• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
• The Playful Classroom
• MusicFirst Junior
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode #10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne
• Spark Chasers Podcast
• Brene Brown Podcasts

Tech Tips of the Week:
Robby - Command+K (or Control+K) will create a hyperlink
Shawna - Mute All for Google Meet | Use AirPod mic as input in Google Meet

App of the Week:
Robby - TIDAL Shawna - Scannable

Album of the Week:
Robby - Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa Shawna - Happiness Begins - The Jonas Brothers

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Shawna - Twitter | Website

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Technology trainer and speaker, Katie Wardrobe, joins the show to talk about producing technology training and resources for music teachers. (And way more)

Topics include:

• Katie’s exceptional website: Midnight Music
• Free vs. paid software
• Teaching facing / student facing software
• M1 and Intel Macs
• Tools Katie uses to make content
• Canva
• File Management on iPad
• Podcasting
• Managing big projects
• Our recent favorite tech tips, albums, and apps

Show Notes:

• Midnight Music: Simplifying technology for music teachers
• Rogue Amoeba
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 23 - Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• Loopback
• MusicFirst
• Noteflight Learn
• Soundtrap
• M1 Macs
• Canva
• Pixelmator
• Affinity Designer
• Affinity Photo
• WeVideo
• Working with Files on the iPad
• Syncing a File Between Logic and GarageBand (iOS) Through iCloud
• Katie’s podcast: Music Technology Teacher Podcast
• Profile Pic Maker
• Upgrade Podcast
• Mac Power Users
• Libsyn Podcast Hosting
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 14 - Empowering Performing Ensembles at a Distance, With Theresa Hoover Ducassoux
• OmniFocus
• OmniFocus Project Templates
• Music Ed Tech Talk: Never Miss a Task, with Project Templates
• My appearance on LearnOmniFocus.com
• Asana
• Trello
• Todoist
• Loom
• Screenflow
• Screencastify
• Music Ed Tech Talk: Hyper-Charging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software
• Broadway Is Closed, But Ratatouille the Musical Is Cooking on TikTok | Vulture
• Ben Thompson: Stratechery
• World Time Buddy
• Calendly
• Doodle
• @_Davidsmith
• Widgetsmith
• Dirty Loops
• Scary Pockets
• The Third Story Podcast, with Leo Sidran - Cory Henry Interview

Katie’s Home Screen

Robby’s Homescreen

App of the Week:
Robby - CalZones
Katie - DaVinci Resolve

Album of the Week:
Robby - Tye Tribbett Apple Music Essentials Playlist
Katie - The Arcadian Wild | Cory Wong & Metropole Orkest

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Katie - Twitter | Website

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Rob Knopper (Metropolitan Opera, auditionhacker, percussionhacker) joins the show to talk about mastering practice, improving the audition process, and using technology to support his multifaceted efforts as a performing percussionist, teacher, and creator of web resources for musicians.

Other topics include:

• How to Practice With Technology
• Technology for Making Content
• Developing Diverse Skills/Remaining Teachable
• Finding Generalized vs. Specialist Mentors
• Comprehensively Studying Masterworks and Making Practice Resources for Them
• Acquiring Phrasing Language
• Teaching Students to Recognize Mastery
• Embracing Failure/Auditions Are Process Not Product
• Our album and app picks of the week

Show Notes:

• Rob Knopper site
• Rob Knopper on The Entrepreneurial Musician, with Andrew Hitz
• Evernote
• Audio-Technica AT4040
• Final Cut Pro - Try free for 90 days
• Adobe Premiere
• Adam Tan
• Ben Thompson - Stratechery
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode #23 Rogue Amoeba Audio Apps, with Paul Kafasis
• IDAGIO - Classical music streaming service
• Izotope RX Restoration Noise Plugins

App of the Week:
Robby - SoundSource
Rob Knopper - Anki

Album of the Week:
Robby - An Oscar Petersen Christmas
Rob Knopper - Pictures at an Exhibition | Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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Rob Knopper - Twitter | Website

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Richard McCready returns to the show to bring in the new year. We reflect on what we learned over the past year and discuss how music teachers can challenge their perception of tradition, creativity, and learning process, moving forward. Of course we also share our app and album picks of the week.

Show Notes:

METT Season 2, Episode 1 - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers with Guest Richard McCready (Richard’s last appearance on this show)
Maggie Shorb on Twitter
Essential Music Technology: The Prestissimo Series (Oxford University Press) RiverHillMusicTech.com
Truckin' My Blues Away - Blind Boy Fuller

App of the Week:
Robby - Apollo
Richard - Jamzone

Album of the Week:
Robby - Christmas with Travelin Light
Richard - Classic Delta and Deep South Blues from Smithsonian Folkways

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Richard - Twitter | Website

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Paul Kafasis, CEO of Rogue Amoeba, joins Robby to talk about the stellar audio apps they make and how Robby is using them in the music classroom both before and during COVID.

Show Notes:

Rogue Amoeba Website: Macaudio.com

Robby’s Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks
Stream Deck

Rogue Amoeba Apps:

Audio Hijack
Loopback
Sound Source
Piezo
Farrago
Fission
Airfoil
Ultimate Podcast Bundle
Educator Discount and Volume Pricing

My blog post on Audio Hijack
My blog post on Loopback

Mimeo Photos Extension for the Mac | Make premium printed photo projects right on your Mac

Acorn | Full Featured Photo Editor for the Mac

App of the Week:
Robby - Pixelmator Pro
Paul - Tot

Album of the Week:
Robby - Charlie XCX | How I’m Feeling Now
Paul - The Colour and the Shape | Foo Fighters

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Paul - Twitter | Website

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Show Notes:

• Tyler S. Grant
• Brian Balmages
• Sibelius
• Dorico
• StaffPad for iPad
• Copy and paste from StaffPad with finger gestures
• Logic Pro
• Ableton Live
• OmniFocus
• Freedom app
• My Store | robbyburns.com/store
• Robby’s Scale Exercise Play-Along Tracks
• Sponsor Music Ed Tech Talk
• Last Episode’s Show Notes (complete with TikTok concerning the recent “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” Decoration Meme"
• Disney Gallery - Star Wars: The Mandalorian
• Ludwig Göransson
• Childish Gambino - “Awaken, My Love”
• Black Panther (Original Score)
• Lianne La Havas - Self Titled Album

App of the Week:
Robby - Christmas Time Shortcut
Tyler - UCLA Music Theory App

Album of the Week:
Robby - NPR The 50 Best Albums of 2020 - An Apple Music Playlist
Tyler - West Side Story - 1984 Recording (Documentary)

Where to Find Us:
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Tyler - Instagram | Website

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Robby’s cohost from The Class Nerd podcast, Craig McClellan, returns to talk about recent smart home and Apple purchases, speakers with digital assistants, technology and music we are thankful for.

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Show Notes:

The Class Nerd Podcast - Listen to Craig and I talk about using technology in the classroom
Philips Hue Bulbs
Lutron Caseta Light Switches
MyQ Garage Door Opener
Netatmo HomeKit Doorbell
Nest Hello Doorbell
Starling.io
Eero
Sonos One
Craig’s Guitar:
Cory Wong
Vulfpeck
Robby’s Viral TikTok:

@_robbyburns

#duet with @_robbyburns I added the percussion. #sleighride #concertband #bandmusic #fyp #foryou #christmasmusic #percussion #babiesoftiktok

♬ original sound - Flute Dude Music

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Will Kuhn joins the show to talk about Apple’s new Macs, teaching electronic music, home automation, and his forthcoming book, Electronic Music School.

Show Notes:

We recorded this episode right after last week's Apple event! People have now used and reviewed these machines! I recommend this one, this one, and this one.

Other topics include:

• Apple in education
• M1 chip implications for audio software
• Other Apple Fall announcements and products
• Ableton Live 11

Do you have a product or service you would like to promote to music educators? Sponsor Music Ed Tech Talk!

Stuff mentioned:

• Neural Mix Pro
• METT Season 2, Episode 8 - Will’s Last appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk (previously, Robby Burns and Friends)
• My Book: Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers
• My Scale Play Along Tracks
• METT Season 4, Episode 2 - Hop-Hop in Music Education, Music Education in Hip-Hop, with Ethan Hein
• The Ethan Hein Blog
• Will’s book - Interactive Composition: Strategies Using Ableton Live and Max for Live
• Apple Silicon, Macs in Education, and App-Centric Learning | Music Ed Tech Talk – Robby Burns
• Making the Grade: What will Apple Silicon mean for Apple’s education strategy? | 9to5Mac – Bradley Chambers
• ClassKit | Apple Classroom API
• Ikea Smart Lighting
• Philips Hue Smart Lights
• Nest Hello Doorbell
• Netatmo HomeKit Doorbell
• Starling Home Hub - connect Nest to Apple HomeKit
• Homebridge
• Dyson hot+cool Air Purifier
• homebridge-dyson-link | Homebridge Plugin for Dyson hot+cool
• Hue Sync Lights for TV
• BT - The Lost Art of Longing
• Poolside.fm
• FOR SALE: TRACK 10 ON VULFPECK’S NEW RECORD

App of the Week:
Robby - Neural Mix Pro
Will - Ableton Live 11

Album of the Week:
Robby - Vulfpeck | The Joy of Music The Job of Real Estate
Will - Machinedrum - A View of U | beabadoobee

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Will - Twitter | Website

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Thanks to my sponsor this month, Flat for Education.

Dr. Frank Buck returns to the show for Part 2 of the Productivity Boot Camp mini-series to talk all about managing calendars, handling email, time tracking, and automation!

Dr. Frank Buck is a productivity master with a background in band directing and administration. I share my knowledge of Apple products and native third-party apps, and he shares his experience with web-based, cross-platform apps.

Show Notes:

• Google Calendar
• Fantastical
• If This Than That
• Get IFTTT Pro on sale until October 31!
• Zapier
• Toggl
• Timery
• Evernote
• If This Then That: My Dozen Most Powerful Applets | Frankbuck.org
• How to Use Evernote to Track Your Time | Frankbuck.org
• Screen Snips with 1 Key: My New Favorite Shortcut | Frankbuck.org
• Spark Email App
• Outlook Email App
• Save to Google Drive Extension
• OmniFocus
• DEVONthink
• SaneBox
• Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome
• TextEpander
• Tapes - Screen recorder for Mac. Share screencasts fast.
• Feedly
• Feedbin
• Apollo: Reddit Client for iOS
• 52 Years Ago, Thelonious Monk Played a High School. Now Everyone Can Hear It. | NTY

App of the Week:
Robby - Reeder 5
Frank Buck - Snipboard.io

Album of the Week:
Robby - Palo Alto | Thelonious Monk
Frank Buck - Christmas Portrait | The Carpenters

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Frank Buck - Twitter | Website

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Thanks to my sponsors this month, Flat for Education.

Dr. Frank Buck returns to the show for the kick-off of my mini-series, Productivity Boot Camp! Dr. Frank Buck is a productivity master with a background in band directing and administration. I share my knowledge of Apple products and native third-party apps, and he shares his experience with web-based, cross-platform apps. We bounce back and forth about good digital task and note management and share our favorite apps!

Show Notes: * SSO stands for "Single Sign-On" * Dr. Frank Buck's latest appearance on Music Ed Tech Talk (then called Robby Burns + Friends) * METT #15 - Double the Burns, Double the Fun!... With Amy Burns * METT #16 - Master Your Virtual Teaching Tech, with David MacDonald * David Allen - Getting Things Done * Steven Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People * Charles Hobbs - Time Power * Robby's Use of OmniFocus Project Templates, including concert planning * OmniFocus Workflows with Robby Burns | LearnOmniFocus.com * My blog post on Staying on Top of Teaching Responsibilities With Omnifocus Perspectives * Remember the Milk * Toodledoo * OmniFocus * Todoist * Things * Evernote * If This Than That * Drafts App - Where Text Starts * DEVONthink * Flute Resources for Home Practice | Dr. Frank Buck * OneNote * TaskClone * Feedly * Feedbin * Reeder * iOS Widgets * New Software Updates from Apple: Exploring Widgets! | Music Ed Tech Talk

App of the Week:

Robby - Sticky Widgets

Frank Buck - Feedly

Album of the Week:

Robby - The Lost Art of Longing | BT

Frank Buck - Handel Flute Sonata V - Recording of Dr. Frank Buck Performing

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Frank Buck - Twitter | Website

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Thanks to this week's sponsor, Flat for Education:

Flat for Education offers music educators and their students the most affordable cloud-based music notation software on the market. Empowering teachers to create playful and engaging music activities, creations, assessments on any device at any time.

The platform integrates with every well-known learning management system available: Google Classroom, Microsoft 365, Canvas, Schoology, and MusicFirst to name a few. Everything will be synchronized with your existing setup to avoid any time loss.

Flat for Education offers an advanced system of assignments allowing you to create playful and stunning music activities with your students.

Create a template for all your students to start working from, or simplify the toolbar to have them only working with eighth and quarter notes. The only limit is your imagination.

Save a lot of time by generating worksheets and quizzes in just a few clicks for your students to practice music theory.

Finally, Bands directors and choirs conductors can have their students directly recording their performance from home for review.

Whether you are teaching remotely or in-person, Flat for Education will support you in creating playful and engaging music activities in no time. Try it free for 90 days on flat.io/edu

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Dr. Christopher Cicconi, Assistant Professor of Music Education, and Director of Bands and Orchestra at Towson University, joins the show to talk about selecting meaningful repertoire for your ensemble. We also talk about score study with iPad Pro apps, involving yourself in your music teaching community, and yes, I go on a tangent about my favorite new weather app.

Show Notes: * My Favorite Tech page * forScore * LumaFusion * Tonal Energy Tuner * GoodNotes * Alex Shapiro * Putting the E- in E-nsemble * Composer Diversity Database * Kaitlin Bove - Dr. Bove's Virtual Courses

App of the Week:
Robby - Weather Line and Carrot Weather
Chris - Fidelity

Album of the Week:
Robby - Trust in the Life-force of the Deep Mystery - The Comet Is Coming
Chris - Game of Thrones Highlights - Spotify Playlist | Mad Max: Fury Road Soundtrack

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Chris - Towson University Profile Page

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David MacDonald returns to the show to talk about the hardware and software in our virtual teaching setups. Then we speculate about touchscreen Macs and consider how Apple's recent App Store policies might impact the future of creative professional software on iOS.

Topics include:

• New Zoom features for musicians and teachers
• David and Philip Rothman's new podcast, Scoring Notes
• Using Open Broadcaster Software to level up your virtual teaching
• Routing audio from your apps into Zoom and Google Meet calls
• Teaching with Auralia
• LMS integration with third-party music education apps
• Using MainStage and Logic for performing instruments into virtual classrooms
• Touchscreen Macs
• Apple's App Store Policy

Show Notes: * Optimize Your Zoom Settings for Music Teaching and Performing! | Music Ed Tech Talk * Better music experiences come to Zoom with high fidelity audio | Scoring Notes * My Online Teaching Setup (High-Tech Edition) | Music Ed Tech Talk * My Very Straightforward and Very Successful Setup for Teaching Virtual Private Lessons * Will Kuhn * Electronic Music School on Twitch... with Will Kuhn and Ethan Hein * Open Broadcaster Softwarehttps://obsproject.com/ * Virtual Cam for Mac * AirServer * How can I use AirServer for Mac with OBS * Reflector * Hyper-Charging Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software | Music Ed Tech Talk * Teaching Tech: Live keyboard overlay in Zoom | This Page Left Intentionally Useless * Loopback * Virtual Midi Piano Keyboard app (Free) * Rogue Amoeba's amazing audio apps for Mac * Farrago soundboard app * Fission audio editing app * IDAGIO * Izotope RX Plugins * Mac Power Users - #531: Teaching with GoodNotes, with David MacDonald * East West Composer Cloud - subscribe to plugins * Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast - #5 - Yours In Quarantine, featuring Julianna Mateyko, Director of Support and Training with MusicFirst * Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast - #13 - Exploring Noteflight Learn, with John Mlynczak * Music Ed Tech Talk Podcast - #12 - Making Music and Podcasts Using Soundtrap, with Meredith Allen, Sales Enablement Manager at Soundtrap * Auralia - Ear Training with Real Music * OBS Camera App * Logitech C920 Pro Webcam * Use iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch to sketch in or mark up Mac documents * On Stage CM01 Video Camera/Digital Recorder Adapter * Elago Stream Deck * Keyboard Maestro * Philip Rothman's Stream Deck Profiles for Dorico/Sibelius/Musescore * MainStage * Apple Pro Apps for Education * Accidental Tech Podcast * forScore * forScore for Mac * GoodNotes * Collaboration in GoodNotes * PDF Expert * Alfred Clipboard Manager * StaffPad

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Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
David MacDonald - Twitter | Website | Blog

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Today's episode is sponsored by MusicFirst:

MusicFirst offers music educators and their students easy-to-use, affordable, cloud-based software that enables music learning, creation, assessment, sharing, and exploration on any device, anywhere, at any time.

MusicFirst Classroom is the only learning management system designed specifically for K-12 music education. It combines the flexibility of an LMS with engaging content and powerful software integrations to help manage your students’ progress, make lesson plans, and create assignments.

And for younger students, MusicFirst Junior is the perfect online system for teaching elementary general music. It includes a comprehensive K-5 curriculum, hundreds of lessons & songs, and kid-friendly graphics to making learning and creating music fun!

Whether you’re teaching remotely, in-person, or in a blended learning environment, MusicFirst will work with you to find a solution that fits your program’s unique needs. Try it free for 30 days at musicfirst.com.

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Elementary music educator, Amy Burns, joins the show! We talk about Seesaw, using tech in the elementary general music classroom, and her new book: Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches!!!

Show Notes: * Noteflight * Soundtrap * MusicFirst * Seesaw * Dr. Barbara Freedman * Flipgrid * METT Episode #14 with Theresa Hoover Ducassoux * Katie Wardrobe | Midnight Music * StreamYard * Teaching Music Online During the Pandemic - Recent Facebook Live panel I participated in * My YouTube page (Subscribe to it!) * FiLMiC Pro Camera app that shoots in multiple camera angles at once on the iPhone 11 - Video from the Apple Keynote * Download FiLMic Pro * Loopback app by Rogue Amoeba * My blog post on using Loopback

Stuff Amy is doing:

• Amy’s forthcoming book: Using Technology with Elementary Music Approaches
  • Learn more here
  • Buy here
• Writing for MusTech.net
• Collaborators on her new book:
  • Cherie Herring
  • Missy Strong
  • Ardith Collins
  • Glennis Patterson

App of the Week:
Robby - SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba
Amy - Tripple Feature! - Timestamp Camera | MixCam app | Focos

Album of the Week:
Robby - Clear Line | Jacob Garchik
Amy - In the Heights | Lin-Manuel Miranda

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Amy - Twitter | Website

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Theresa Hoover Ducassoux joins the show to talk about technology for teaching band at a distance, productivity methodologies, Google apps for personal and school use, Flipgrid, empowering students, and more...

Other topics: * Personal productivity systems and apps * The Getting Things Done Methodology * Teaching band online * Being creative with whatever teaching scenario and schedule your district is moving forward with this fall * Engaging students with musical performance using the Flipgrid video service * Google apps for personal productivity * Google apps for classroom teaching * Organizing files in Google Drive * Automating band warm ups * Chamber music breakout groups using Google Meet and Soundtrap * Getting Google Certified * Her book- Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students * Our favorite album and apps of the week

Show Notes: * Everything Band: Episode 170 - Theresa Hoover Ducassoux * Lori Schwartz Reichl * Music Ed Tech Talk #8 - Diversifying Your Career and Your Programing, with Lori Schwartz Reichl * Getting Things Done Methodology * OmniFocus * Inbox Zero * MusicFirst * SmartMusic * Noteflight Learn * Soundtrap * Flipgrid * Kahoot * Google Teacher Certification * Google: The Anywhere School 2020 * Kathryn Finch: Website | Twitter * Scrivener * TextExpander * Jamboard * Getting Started with Google Jamboard | Off the Beaten Path - Theresa Ducassoux * Using Jamboard in the Music Classroom | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns * Flat.io * Routing Audio From Your Apps Directly Into Your Zoom or Google Meet (Or Other Digital Meeting Platform) | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns * Rogue Amoeba * Audio Hijack * Rhiannon Giddens to Lead Silkroad’s Musical Explorations | NYT * Microsoft Teams * New Google Meet features * Google Calendar * Google Slides * Google Keep * Evernote * OneNote * Google Duo, Google Meet, Google Hangouts (?) * Omnifocus Project Templates * Never Miss a Task, With Project Templates | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns * Music Ed Tech Talk #10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne * Making Just Intonation Play Along Tracks for Your Performing Ensemble (Using Tonal Energy and Garageband) | Music Ed Tech Talk - Robby Burns

App of the Week:
Robby - Loopback by Rogue Ameoba (They have educator discounts)
Theresa - Flat for Docs

Album of the Week:
Robby - Jennifer Higdon Harp Concerto
Theresa - Dustin O’Halloran, piano solos

Where to Find Us:
Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book
Theresa - Twitter | Website - MusicalTheresa.com | Book - Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students | Blog - Off the Beaten Path

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John Mlynczak returns to the show to discuss Noteflight's new integration with Sound Check and offers advice to educators about teaching online this fall, and what we can learn from it.

Show Notes: * Could not find the exact article I read on Zoom fatigue but there are plenty. Here’s one. * Noteflight * Noteflight Learn * SoundCheck Integrates with Noteflight * Match My Sound Partnership * PracticeFirst * MusicFirst * School of Rock * My Choral Coach * Dorico * Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 10 - Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne * FileMaker * Virtual Tuning Disk | EMMSmusic.com * Tonal Energy Tuner * Soundtrap * The Rest is Noise | Alex Ross * Igor Levit is Like No Other Pianist - The New Yorker | Alex Ross * Igor Levit and Franz Welser-Möst | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in Bb Major, op. 19

App of the Week:

Robby - Kindle/Audible

John - TikTok

Album of the Week:

Robby - Igor Levit - Beethoven Piano Sonatas

John - Hamilton on Disney+

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

John - Twitter

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Meredith Allen, Sales Enablement Manager at Soundtrap, joins the show to talk about using Soundtrap in the music classroom to create music and podcasts, getting acquired by Spotify, and wearing hard pants.

Show Notes: * Soundtrap * MusicFirst * Prompts for Making Beats (Link to the Soundtrap Packet I mention in the episode) * Soundtrap Lesson Plans to Inspire Your Classroom Activities * Me in a Minute Podcasting Lesson Plan * Spotify * Anchor * Gimlet Media * Joe Rogen acquisition * VLC Media Player (and file converter) * Reddit | Animal Crossing Turnip Exchange

App of the Week:

Robby - Permute

Meredith - Innovators Compass

Album of the Week:

Robby - Dreams Come True | Love Goes On

Meredith - Rocketman Soundtrack

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Meredith - Twitter | Website

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A swift return to the show from Craig McClellan to talk about all of the things Apple announced at their developer conference this past week and how we see it influencing our work.

Show Notes: * WWDC 2020 Keynote * iPhone New Features - iOS 14 Preview * eero WiFi * OmniFocus * Siri Shortcuts * Overcast * Dark Noise * Apple Watch in the Classroom | The Class Nerd * Slack * Pro Clip * iPad Pro Magic Keyboard * Zoom * Google Meet * StaffPad * Ferrite Recording Studio * TaskPaper * MindNode * Comply Foam Tips for AirPods * Music Ed Tech Talk - Automate All The Things, with Craig McClellan * Siri Shortcuts in the Classroom | The Class Nerd * Mental and Physical Health | The Class Nerd * Designing Curriculum and Assessing Students with FileMaker, with Ben Denne * Watchsmith by David Smith * GoodNotes * Darkroom * Pixelmator * Tonal Energy Tuner * forScore * Seesaw * Remind * Canvas * Zapier - Connect your apps and automate workflows * Fantastical * Goat Rodeo Sessions

App of the Week:

Robby - Toggl / Timery

Craig - Meeter for Zoom, Teams & Co

Album of the Week:

Robby - Not Our First Goat Rodeo | The Goat Rodeo Sessions

Craig - Central Park on Apple TV+

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog | Book

Craig - Twitter

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Robby’s Ellicott Mills Middle School colleague, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about designing a sequential instrumental music curriculum, and how they track student progress in the FileMaker app. Other topics include:

• Workflows for producing virtual band/orchestra videos
• The importance of developing audiation in student musicians
• The strengths of binary performance rubrics
• Art vs. Craft
• Understanding relational databases
• Data-driven music teaching (the good kind)
• Lots more music teaching philosophy

Show Notes: * Final Cut Pro X * Logic Pro X * Screenflow * LumaFusion * Logic and Final Cut 90 day free trial * Apple Pro Apps Bundle for Education ($200) * Alfred 4 for Mac * Music Ed Tech Talk #9 - Automate All The Things! With Craig McClellan * David MacDonald | Composer * Music Ed Tech Talk #6 - Paperless iPad Workflows for Teaching Music, with David MacDonald * IMSLP * IMSLP Alfred Search * 5esrd Alfred Search * J. W. Pepper * Bento * FileMaker * Book - Robert Duke | Intelligent Music Teaching: Essays on the Core Principles of Effective Instruction * Tonal Energy Tuner App * Edwin E. Gordon - Musical Aptitude Profile * Book - Arnold Jacobs | Wind and Song * Lynda Course: FileMaker Pro Essential Training * Lynda Course: Learning FileMaker 17 * Lynda Course: FileMaker Tips, Tricks, and Techniques * AirTable * Charms * Noteflight Announcement about SoundCheck Integration * SmartMusic * MusicFirst * FileMaker 19 Holds Promise for My Music Teaching Workflow | Robbyburns.com * New York Philharmonic - Digital Archives * NKoda - An ensemble of sheet music, scores and parts

App of the Week:

Robby - Discord

Ben - IDAGIO

Album of the Week:

Robby - Sarah Jarosz | World on the Ground

Ben - Marc Ribot | Y Los Cubanos Postizos

Where to Find Us:

Robby - Twitter | Blog

Ben - EMMS Music | HoCoYo

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Screenshots of Our FileMaker Database: Our table of assignment records (Right) and the Layout we use to enter performance records (Left) Image of Performance Packets:

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Craig returns to talk about automating bedtime routines with Shortcuts, HomeKit automation, automating the Mac, our decision to end The Class Nerd podcast, and more.

Show Notes:

• HomePods at Best Buy
• Apple HomeKit
• Robby’s “My Favorite Technology” page - includes all home automation devices and apps he uses at home
• Wemo Smart Switch
• Lutron Caseta Smart Light Switches
• Philips Hue Smart Bulbs
• Shortcuts app
• AutoSleep sleep tracker
• Setting up HomeKit scenes
• Mysa Thermostats - for baseboard heating
• Honeywell Lyric Alarm System
• Robby’s Bedtime Shortcut
• Craig’s Bedtime Shortcut
• Robby’s Play Podcast in the Master Bathroom Shortcut
• Zoom
• Drafts
• iPad Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro with Trackpad
• Robby’s StaffPad Review - First Impressions of StaffPad for iPadOS | robbyburns.com
• Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 7 - Working with StaffPad
• Music Ed Tech Talk Season 3 Episode 5 - Taking Notes with Drafts, With Greg Pierce
• Slack
• AppleScript Support for Drafts on the Mac
• Shortcuts and Drafts action to save a Draft to Apple Note (You must have both installed)
• AppleScript Drafts action to save a Draft to Apple Notes
• Alfred
• List of actions I use in Alfred every day
• • Search Google
  • Search files
  • Move/Copy Files from one place to another
  • Clipboard manager
  • Define and spell words
  • Search OmniFocus
  • Search Drafts
  • Message people
  • Email People
  • Search GIFs on Giphy
  • Searching websites
  • Searching Emoji
  • Jump to Slack Channel
  • Music Ed Tech Talk Episode 6 - Paperless iPad Workflows - Discussion of what Markdown is
  • Marked 2 app
  • Brett Terpstra AppleScripts for Marked 2 and other Projects
• Things
• Todoist
• OmniFocus Automation
• Keyboard Maestro
• Hazel
• Video of my Keyboard Maestro macro for loan agreement forms in action
• The Class Nerd Semester 2 Episode 2 - To Automate or Not to Automate - discussion of DEVONthink
• Music Ed Tech Talk Season 2 Episode 11 - Automation and Advanced Workflows with Craig McClellan
• Music Ed Tech Talk Season 3 Episode 3 - Task App Showdown with Craig McClellan
• The Class Nerd Podcast

App of the Week:

Robby - DEVONthink

Craig McClellan - Dark Noise

Album of the Week:

Robby - Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters

Craig McClellan - Shawn McConnell: Live From Basement East

Where to Find Us:

Craig McClellan: Twitter | Website

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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Friend and colleague, Lori Schwartz Reichl, joins the show to talk about student and teacher engagement, the up-sides of teaching private lessons remotely, broadening her teaching career beyond the classroom, the Institute for Composer Diversity, and much more!

Show Notes:

-Lori’s website - Making Key Changes

-Zoom - Recording both sides of the conversation as two separate audio tracks

-Peloton

-Peloton App

-Joanna Stern - Laptop webcam showdown

-https://makingkeychanges.com/reflection

-Lori’s YouTube Page

-Mirror Mirror on the Wall. . . Am I Providing Opportunities Reflecting All? | NAfME Blog | by Lori Schwartz Reichl

-A Personal and Professional Pivot - Make it Simple, Not Stressful | NAfME Blog | by Lori Schwartz Reichl

-Andrew Hitz

-Music Ed Tech Talk - #4 - The Most Validating Day of my Life, with Andrew Hitz

-Institute for Composer Diversity

-Regional Repertory Wind Ensemble

-Tyler Grant

• NAfME’s Music in a Minute Blog, Lori’s Appearances

An opportunity from Lori:

“I'm thrilled to join our co-founders of Women Banding Together”

(Virginia Allen, Laura Johnson, and Jenny L. Neff) as we host our inaugural panel discussion:

”Transitioning with Resilience“ - on Monday, May 18 at 3:00 pm ET via Zoom.

RSVP for Zoom details at here.

App of the Week:

Robby - LumaFusion

Lori - Acapella

Album of the Week:

Robby - Nate Smith: Light and Shadows

Lori Reichl - “One Voice”: A Holiday Presentation by The United States Army Field Band

Where to Find Us:

Lori Reichl: YouTube | Website

Robby Burns: Twitter | Blog

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Chris returns to the show to talk about Apple’s Education Event this past week.

Chris Russell

Twitter | Blog: Technology in Music Education | Podcast: Music Education Technology | Blog: Ukestuff | Youtube

Show Notes:

Apple Education Page | Keynote

Apple’s 2012 Keynote

Acer Chromebook Tab 10

Logitech Rugged Combo 2 Keyboard| Logitech Crayon

Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Logitech Crayon Stylus - The Mac Observer

Canvas Podcast - Episode #57: Apple Education Event 2018

jamf

Apple Education: Teaching Tools (Apple Classroom and Schoolwork)

Google Classroom

ClassKit

Shobie | Schoology | Canvas

Musicfirst | Soundtrap | Noteflight

Microsoft Office for iPad

Word | Excel | PowerPoint

iWork Updates

Pages | Numbers | Keynote

Attendance2

GoodNotes

iBooks Author

iPad Split View (Use two apps side by side)

Dorico | My interview with Daniel Spreadbury of Dorico

Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you

Notion App

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Craig returns to the show to talk about how we manage tasks, and the apps we use to manage them. There is a strong emphasis here on two of the premium task apps for Mac and iOS, Things and OmniFocus.

This episode isn't so much a showdown between Craig and I or one app and another. It is more a celebration of the great features of pro task apps that we depend on to manage our teaching careers. For me, there is an ongoing showdown between these apps in my mind, as I constantly contemplate which tools best help my brain to stay focused on the task at hand. It was fun to process that with Craig.

Craig

Twitter | The Class Nerd Blog

Show Notes:

Task Management Apps Discussed:

Things | OmniFocus | Todoist | 2Do

Todoist Education Pricing

GTD (Getting Things Done) Methodology - Getting Things Done by David Allen

Previous Episode with Craig: Automation and Advanced Workflows

Carrot Weather - Our Favorite Weather App for Apple Watch

Waterminder - Water Intake Tracking App

Hidrate Spark 2.0 Smart Water Bottle

David Sparks (Macsparky Blog)

Federico Viticci (Twitter | MacStories Blog)

Slack - Team Communication Tool

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Daniel Spreadbury, Product Manager of notation editor, Dorico, joins the show.

Once we got going, this conversation ventured into great detail on the subject of Daniel’s start at Sibelius, using the different modes of Dorico, user interface design, the challenges of software development, the future of Dorico on mobile, and much more.

Daniel’s articulate thought and meticulous attention to detail made this a really fun episode to record. You can hear Daniel’s inner nerd pour out over every side of the product. From the backend code, to the user experience, to the customer support.

Daniel Spreadbury

Twitter | Dorico | Blog

Show Notes:

Dorico YouTube Channel

Lynda.com

Cubase

Cubasis

Marco Arment

Overcast Podcast App

Forecast

My Book - Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers

Audio Hijack

Edit: Since recording, the Dorico Manual was released in PDF form. Download here.

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Paul Simmons and Chris Russell (Co-hosts of the Music Education Technology Podcast) join the show to talk about all of the new features in iOS 11. We touch on it all! The dock, multitasking, the new Files app, new Notes features, and even the iPhone X announcement. This is a great episode to listen to if you have seen Apple’s prompt to update and you are on the fence. We will walk you through all of the major changes, and how we are using them.

The Guests

Paul: Twitter | Blog

Chris: Twitter | Blog

Music Education Technology Podcast

Show Notes

Apple’s iOS 11 Page

MacStories iOS 11 Review

Amy Burns’s Post About 32 Bit Apps Leaving the App Store

My post about syncing a Logic file on a Mac with a GarageBand file on an iPad

Made with ARKit

Note! In our review of all the ways to launch an app into multitasking mode that is not on the dock, I forgot one. If a Bluetooth keyboard is attached to your iPad, you can press Command+Space to launch Spotlight, search for an app, start dragging the icon, and drop it into place next to your existing app. It isn’t pretty, but it works.

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The epic conclusion of season two of Robby Burns + Friends has come! Thank you for listening to this season all about my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers. The book was released one year ago this month. I have had an absolute blast interviewing music educators all year long on topics relating to organization and technology in the music classroom. Be sure to check out all of the other episodes in this series. Coming this week: Season 3!

This week Craig McClellan, of The Class Nerd, joins the show to talk abut automation and advanced workflows. We will save you 1,000s of clicks!

Show Notes: Craig McClellan

Craig on Twitter | The Class Nerd Blog | Craig’s Micro.blog

Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers

Buy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer

Mentioned this Episode:

My Blog Post “The Six Best Automation Apps for iOS”

Drafts App

Markdown

Automating iOS: A Comprehensive Guide to URL Schemes and Drafts Actions - MacStories

Apple Acquires Workflow

Workflow App

Robby Burns + Friends Episode on the GTD Methodology and Task Apps…featuring Dr. Frank Buck

Marco Arment, developer of…Tumblr/Instapaper/Overcast

OmniGraffle Designing App

Link to Download My Workflow for Managing Seating Charts (Note: You must replace the PDF in this Workflow with your own seating chart if it is going to work)

My Blog Post on Using TextExpander in the Music Classroom

TextExpander

TextExpander for iOS

Bear Notes App

Evernote

IFTTT

Zapier

Launch Center Pro

Editorial iPad App

Fujitsu Scansnap Ix500

Hazel File Management App

Squarespace Websites

Pythonista for iPad

Lynda.com

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This week Dr. Ken Elpus joins the show to talk about productivity apps and utilities that he uses to get his busy and multifaceted job done. Ken is the Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Maryland College Park. He is an absolute power user when it comes to leveraging his computer in amazing ways to better do his job!

Note: Around the 49 minute mark, Ken’s voice gets weird. Sorry.

Dr. Ken Elpus Website | Twitter | UMD

Show Notes: Apps Mentioned..

Audio Hijack - tool for rerouting the audio of your apps | Ulysses - Writing tool for Mac and iOS | Google Photos | Dropbox | Evernote | Waze - maps app with crowd sourced traffic data | Fantastical on Mac and iPhone - natural language input calendar app | OmniFocus - Robby and Ken’s task app of choice | Things - a beautiful and intuitive task app | Keynote | Canvas | Wuphf! | Unibox - organizes email by contact | AirMail - powerful mail client for Mac and iOS | Spark - Robby and Ken’s iOS mail client of choice | SaneBox - service that automatically sorts and organizes your mail | Slack - team communication tool | Remind - app for messaging students | Google Voice | Spotify | forScore | Notability | GoodNotes - note taking app for the iPad with presentation features | iAnnotate | Goodreader | Papers - Reference management software | Scrivener - authoring tool for Mac and iOS | DevonThink | Amphetamine - keeps your Mac awake | 1Password | Magnet and Moom - Window management utility for Mac | Roku | Plex | Boxer - MS Dos Machine | Dorico | MindNode | Alfred/Launchbar - Powerful Spotlight replacements | Screenflow/Tapes - screencast tools | Yoink | Transcribe App/Amazing Slow Downer - tools for slowing down, speeding up, transposing, and looping audio recordings | Taskclone - service that links your Evernote account with your task app

Keyboard shortcut for hide everything except active window: Option+Command+H.

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Kevin Eikenberg of Four/Ten Media joins the show to talk to Robby about strategies for working with video. Four/Ten Media is made of up Kevin and Evan Chapman, a past percussion student of mine. Kevin produced the video trailer for my book and Evan’s band, Square Peg Round Hole, provided the background music.

Kevin Eikenberg Four/Ten Media Website | Instagram | Facebook

Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers Buy from Oxford University Press | Buy from Amazon | Watch the Trailer

Products, Apps, and Services Mentioned this Episode: Final Cut Pro X | iMovie | iMovie Theater | Q3 Video Recorder | H4N Handy Recorder | macOS Tags | Adobe Premiere Pro | After Effects | Adobe Creative Cloud | Build a PC Subreddit | Plex | Dropbox | Canon EOS60D | Canon C100 | Canon Camcorders | Sony A5100 Mirrorless Camera

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Music technology educator, Ableton Live expert, and author, Will Kuhn, chats with me about organizing the audio files on our devices. We also speculate the future of professional audio and video software on the iPad.

Will Kuhn Website | Twitter | Will's Book - Interactive Composition | Lebanan High School Electronic Music Group

Show Notes: Referenced Articles * The Tragedy of iTunes and Classical Music - The Atlantic * The Hot New Hip-Hop Producer Who Does Everything On His iPhone - Wired * Can the MacBook Pro Replace Your iPad? - Fraser Spears * Syncing A File Between Logic and GarageBand on iOS - Robby Burns * Workflow to Download YouTube Videos on iPad/iPhone

The Will Kuhn Audio Organization Workflow * iTunes is for finished stuff * Student work is shared in Google Drive * iCloud desktop folder for short term storage and syncing across devices * With video files - don’t keep the scraps!

Products and Apps Mentioned * iOS 11 Files app * GarageBand for iOS * iMovie for iOS * Xcode * Reason * Inter-app audio apps * iRig * Traktor DJ App for iPad * djayPro DJ App for iPad * Aperture * Lightroom * Apple Photos

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Chris Russel returns to the show to talk about working with digital scores on the iPad.

Chris Russel Twitter | Blog | Podcast

Show Notes: Check out our last episode together on scanning documents.

forScore

unrealBook

Showbie

Seesaw

piaScore

Orpheus

Musicpad Pro

MusicReader

Newzik

DeepDish Gig Book

iGigBook

PDF Expert

Notability

GoodNotes

Noteflight Learn

PracticeFirst

MusicFirst

AirTurn Products

Gvido

Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band

My Blog Post on Indexing a Real Book with forScore

The Man Who Ate a Car…Plane?

Other Useful Links Mentioned in the Conversation but Edited out of the Final Episode smartmusic

Transcribe! app

Music Technology Teacher Podcast - with Katie Wardrobe

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In this weeks episode, I am joined by Paul Shimmons (band director, music tech in education blogger, and podcaster). We have a great time talking about our various workflows for reading, editing, annotating, and organizing our PDFs. This episode was recorded shortly after the announcement of iOS 11 which will bring a lot of new productivity features to the iPad. Naturally, we had to discuss these announcements and how they might reshape our PDF workflows next fall.

This episode has chapters!!!! Using your podcast app of choice, skip to any topic in the episode by taping on the title of that chapter.

Paul Twitter | Blog | Podcast

Show Notes: Recommended PDF Apps: Preview | Adobe Acrobat Pro DC | PDFpen | PDF Expert | Documents 5 | GoodReader | PDF Converter | PDF Office | Evernote | iBooks | Kindle | Notability | Microsoft OneNote |

Misc Rogue Amoeba | Audio Hijack | iOS 11 | Readdle Apps | Spark Mail App | Readdle Drag and Drop | OmniGraffle | Workflow | AirTurn | FileMaker | Squarespace Websites

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In place of a formal introduction, Chris and I launched straight into a discussion about our recording setups and how to successfully record using iOS devices*. Then we jump into over an hour of action packed information on scanning. Scanning documents. Scanning music. Scanning with scanners. Scanning with phones. OCRing text. Automatic handwriting recognition. Automatic music notation recognition. Doing it all on PCs, tablets, phones, you name it.

Christopher Russell is a middle school choral and general music educator, music technology in education expert, blogger, and podcaster. Click the links below to read about him.

Chris Russel Twitter | Blog | Podcast

Show Notes: Misc AirPods | Zencaster | flat.io | Newzik | Evernote | Notability | unRealBook | MMEA | AirTurn | PageFlip | From Paper to Pixels | Tony Vincent

Recording Set Up Audio Hijack | Ferrite | H4N | Blue Snowball | Audio Technica AT2020 USB

Hardware Scanners Fujitsu Scansnap | Canon

Third Party Options 1dollarscan.com

Recommended Scanning Apps: Scanner Pro | Scannable

Music Scanning Apps PhotoScore | SmartScore | PDFtoMusic Pro | NotateMe | Sheet Music Scanner

Other Scanning Apps: Tiny Scanner iOS | Tiny Scanner Android | Genius Scan iOS | Genius Scan Android | JotNot Pro | forScore

*This discussion was eye opening for me and I am glad I tried recording into my iPad for this episode but I would like to note that ...

1) Ferrite's touch editing interface was cumbersome enough for me that I ended up just doing it all in Logic Pro

and

2) Something about this setup resulted in a bit of a distorted sound on my voice which I did my best to clean up but apologize for.

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Show Notes: Back at it again, with another work colleague! Orchestra Director, Ben Denne, joins the show to talk about cloud drive services, specifically, the strengths and weaknesses of the primary offerings and how our music team uses them to be productive.

Can you tell how long I’ve been sitting on this recording? Wait for the Easter egg around 1:24.

We recorded this one live. Apologies for the disruptions and sound problems, particularly the last ten minutes. Yeah, yeah, I know…

Links: Buy my book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers

Dropbox

Google Drive

Google Docs

iCloud

iWork

Canvas document picker episode

Backblaze

Crash Plan

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Season 2 is back!!! After a series of technical difficulties and a busy concert/conference presenting season, Episode 3 is ready!

This week my choral colleague, Nick Dogas, joins the show to discuss basic productivity in the music classroom. Topics include: managing an active teaching schedule using calendar apps, staying on top of email responsibilities, where technology helps (and doesn’t help), the role of attention, and more.

This was a fun one to record. All of my other guests this season are experts on the topics of each episode. I was having trouble finding someone who wanted to talk about the not-so-glamorous topics of email and calendars. Nick joked with me that he could come on as a tech-NON-expert and I loved the idea. Considering how differently each of us approaches our work, this episode turned into an interesting counterpoint about focus, attention, the problems that technology solves for unorganized people, and when it is best to just turn off the computer screen and get work done.

Note: Due to some issues recording this episode on an iPad, there are a few awkward edits and audio issues.

Show Notes: Sight Reading Factory - Excellent website for generating sight reading exercises for your students.

OmniFocus - Powerful task management for iOS and macOS.

Todoist - Collaborative, web based, and cross platform task management app.

Evernote - Versatile and cross platform note taking app.

Spark Mail App and Airmail - Two superior email apps for iOS and macOS.

Squarespace - Website platform that our music team used to build our website and publish our online calendar.

Google Calendar - The calendar service our music team uses to collaborate on classes.

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Guest: Dr. Frank Buck Website

Twitter

Instagram

Facebook

Book - Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders

Frank Buck is a former middle school band director, veteran school administrator, public speaker, productivity coach, and writer. He is the author Get Organized!: Time Management for School Leaders. Dr. Buck helps people achieve their goals through organization and time management. He has spoken to audiences throughout the United States and into Canada to acquaint them with how to work with total control and peace of mind.

Great Apps for Task Management * Todoist * Wunderlist * Asana * Toodledo * OmniFocus * Things * 2Do

Frank’s App of Choice: Toodledo

Robby’s App of Choice: OmniFocus

What makes a good task management app? Buck’s Magnificent 7 * Assign a due date and sort by due date * Repeating tasks * Notes field * Search * Sync across all devices * Interfaces with email ** - Voice recognition

Robby’s Must Have Features * Quick capture * Inbox * Review * Due dates

Relevant Links Getting Things Done by David Allen

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In Season Two of Robby Burns + Friends, I go through my new book, Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers, chapter by chapter. Each episode will cover a topic from the book with a guest who is an expert on that topic. The introduction to the season includes the introduction chapter to my book and an overview of the Prestissimo Series with Series Editor, Richard McCready.

Buy My Book Buy from OUP

Buy from Amazon

Watch the Video Trailer

Richard McCready Twitter: @ramccready

Book: Make Your Own Music: A Creative Curriculum Using Music Technology

Show Notes and Related Links Dr. Peter Perry

TI:ME - Technology Institute for Music Educators

MMEA

AppleScript

Max for Live

Ableton Live

VJ Manzo

Note: I mistakenly called the Mac operating system OS X numerous times despite it now being called macOS. Sorry.

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Friend, Courtney Starr, joins the show to discuss announcements at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. 

Courtney Starr: Website | Twitter | Prolific Interactive

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Friend, Allan Georgia, joins me to talk about Twitter's monetization strategy, social and algorithmic curation in the digital age, and pickling.

The Guest Allan Georgia on Twitter

Show Notes: In a Pivot-Happy World, We Need to Let Twitter Be Twitter - James Gleick

Apple Music first look: It's all about curation, curation, curation

Favorite Instagram Accounts Socality Barbie

Chef Jacques La Merde Instagram Account

depressingfridgepoems

Favorite Subreddits r/indiefolk

r/LetsTalkMusic

r/boardgames

r/coffee

r/ElitistClassical

Pickling Things to pickle * ramps * romain hearts * shitake mnushrooms

Momofuku's Vinegar Pickles

Beet Green Gratin Recipe

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Robby and friend Courtney Starr reflect on their experience using the Apple Watch, discussing how it works now, how they wish it would work, and what might change when watchOS 2 releases.

Courtney Starr: Website | Twitter | Prolific Interactive

Links: Spire Article about flipping the Apple Watch upside down  

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Courtney Starr joins me to talk about last month's Apple Keynote. We reflect on their announcement of the iPad Pro and newly refreshed Apple TV.

Courtney Starr: Website | Twitter | Prolific Interactive

Links: iPad Pro, Pencil Stylus by 53, Paper app, Adonit Stylus, Apple Pencil, Apple TV

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In Episode 2 Jon Tippens is back to talk about what I thought we were going to talk about in Episode 1, PDF Management. We discuss all of our discontents with managing this ubiquitos document that is significantly flexible on PCs but severely limited on mobile devices. We discuss where we run into friction with PDFs in our own process and what workflows we have devised to settle this problem.

But that's not all! First, we have a meta discussion about the intro music to this show and then proceed to analyze the intro to season 2 of True Detective (No Spoilers... sort of).

PDF Apps Discussed: PDF Expert, Documents, Evernote, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe Reader, iBooks, Kindle, Dropbox, Google Drive, PDFpen, Skitch, Scannable, PDFpen Scan+, forScore,

Jot Script Evernote Stylus

Other Apps Discussed: Penultimate, Paper, Workflow, Hazel, DEVONthink

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Robby and guest, Jon Tippens, discuss Apple's new music streaming service, Apple Music. 

Show Notes:

Apple Music

Spotify

Spotify Running

Apple Music Connect

Robby's Blog Post on his first thoughts about Apple Music

Apple Music FAQ: Everything you need to know | iMore

Jon Tippens on Twitter

Labor Crib, Jon's Blog

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