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Week 1: These tracks were made for looping

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Word of the day: Looping – using pre-recorded sound material which can be repeated and layered on top of one another to create ostinati patterns.

Two weeks ago (yes I know I am a liiittle behind on the updates), I had my first Technology in Music Education class and was genuinely overwhelmed with how little I knew about recording technology. To be fair, I was aware of my small technological knowledge prior to starting this class but I never really needed to face it, at least not until now. The fear didn’t linger for too long, however, as I realised that I was in the same boat as many of my classroom peers (and I’m sure some of you reading this blog post as well!). I guess that is quite telling of the type of music education we have all received at some point in the past.

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Hello smart board, my old friend

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As we all tend to do when we are unclear on where to start with our new projects, we look up helpful YouTube videos 😀 So naturally, I typed into the search bar ‘Technology in Music Education (please help)’.

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Starting out…

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I am a young, 25 (going on 26) year old millennial whose life is saturated with technology. As I am typing this in a busy Sydney train on my Dell laptop, my wireless noise-cancelling headphones are playing faint Billy Joel from my Spotify account while my Android smart phone is lightly vibrating with new notifications. Also, did I mention that I’m trying to use my Ipad at the same time?

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