# Thursday, September 25th - Music Theory Review - Reading Notes - [[1. Relationship of Notes on Piano to Notes on Staff]] - [[2. Reading Instantly]] - [[3. Reading Steps]] - [[4. The "Cymmetry" of C's]] - [[5. Sharps vs Flts]] - Musical Scale - [[4. Half Steps vs Whole Steps]] - [[major full octave]] - Music Theory Homework 1 - On Canvas - Instrumentation Overview - Drums - [[Expanding Your Creative Drum Vocabulary]] - [[The Components of a Drum Kit]] - Chord Progression - [Shorter Chord Clips](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RTC7twrmsgleah0ydQ17VddkLX4F1hog?usp=drive_link) - https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab - Melody - When starting out, emphasize the notes within a scale, especially the tonic - Bass Line - Emphasize the root notes of each chord # Tuesday, September 23rd - Session Organization - Collect all and save # Thursday, Setpember 18th, 2025 - Drum Programming - [[Expanding Your Creative Drum Vocabulary]] - [[The Components of a Drum Kit]] - Questions - How to engage/disengage drawing tool? - How to make notes start and end NOT on the grid? - How to adjust volume of individual notes? - Keyboard shortcut? # Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 - Review - Basic Musical Notation - Alphabet Soup - Counting up through the musical scale forwards and backwards - Major and Minor Chords - Major chords = 0 4 7 - minor chords = 0 3 7 - Lab - Continue to work on composing with chord progressions and drum patterns # Thursday, September 11th, 2025 - Musical Notation vs Grid Notation - Basic Music Theory - Keys and Scales - Scales - Major Scale - Triads - Triads of Major Scale - Working with smaller clips - [Shorter Chord Clips](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RTC7twrmsgleah0ydQ17VddkLX4F1hog?usp=drive_link) - [Shorter Drum Clips](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fdy3MAeHfi94as8Pto9dMWQMzLOs0W-8?usp=drive_link) - HookTheory - https://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab # Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 - Review - Midi Remix - [[Midi Resources]] - See about decorating a midi file to make it sound authentic while also creatively transforming it to your liking - Midi Concepts - Step Input - Duplicating vs Aliasing Clips - Understanding Musical Time # Thursday, September 4th, 2025 - Review - Views - Browser - Session - Arrangement - Clip - Device - Info/Help - Preferences - Hearing Audio - Configuring the Playback Engine - System Audio vs Ableton Audio - Ableton's different views - The steps to record - Chopping clips - Command E - Ableton's "Smart Tool" # Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025 - Review - [[02. Check Playback Engine]] - [[8. Audio Icon in Menu Bar]] - Clips and Tracks - Audio Clips - Samples - Midi Clips - Clips - [[Creating an Instrument Track]] - Basic Orchestration - Basic Recording - Count In - Preferences -> Record, Warp, and Launch - Recording - Record Arming Track - Arming Transport - [[1. - Acoustics - Audio Basics - Module Intro -]] # Thursday, August 28th, 2025 - Survey of electroacoustic landscape - Dive into Ableton - Views - Macintosh Literacy Series - [[1 . Force Quit]] - Tracks and Clips - Acoustics Basics