# 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