Tech Day is a chance to explore some aids to music learning that we can carry around with us on our tablets or cell phones. It is a new world, and the learning opportunities are truly wonderful. But the learning curve exists, and frustration is always around the corner, so I'm providing this morning workshop to try and alleviate any problems, while getting people up and running with new music learning tools.
What we'll use:
Tuning apps
- Pano tuner, Strobe tuner, G strings
Metronome apps:
- Speak Beats (IOS)
- Iona Voice metronome (android)
- Camtronome
- others
Zoom (for distance learning)
Ear trainer and note trainer apps
- The Ear Gym
Evernote for record keeping of audio and text notes and photos
What to bring
bring your phone, and/or your tablet. Do bring both if you plan to do some distance learning. If you don't have a tablet bring a laptop if you have one, (for zoom) and your smartphone for the rest
Bring passwords for your phone/tablet, and for google playstore or itunes which is the place we'll mostly download from. All the apps we'll download are free, though most have paid versions without ads. You can change from free to paid at home, or here if you want.
Bring a note book as well - write down your passwords in it for easy reference (tear out the page later is you like) You can take notes as well about what we're doing.
How to prepare
You can test drive the process by downloading Zoom at home. If the downloading works, and you are able to open the program, you'll know you have everything you need to get on with the other programs.
Most of the programs here have versions for both android and IOS (iphones) but if you can't find them, it may not be available. We'll just use a different one.
If you're feeling ready to go, download anything on this page. If we have mostly that done before you get hear, then we can spend our time learning how to use them. But if this is all greek to you, and you can only come with passwords and gear, that is fine. You doubly qualify for this workshop and we'll get you up and running before you know it!
We'll use wi-fi to connect and download, but you can also use data if you have a data plan large enough.
There is no charge for this workshop. We'll go out for lunch together when we're done - 12 or 12:30.