With music and art programs being cut from schools all over the United States, I think this is a great reminder that music is more than a fun hobby or emotional outlet.

Why Teach Music?

Music is a science.

It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

Music is mathematical.

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What We’re Making

Click the image above to see the results

Requirements

• Video Editing Software (After Effects, Windows Movie Player, Premiere, Final Cut, etc)
• Audio (what kind of instrument doesn’t have audio?)
• 30 – 60+ minutes
• Creativity
• The following download that includes a piano image and audio

Preparing the Video

1. We’re going to make a piano in this tutorial, so make sure you downloaded the file above (includes audio

I’m hoping to eventually get back to these applications and improve on a few of them. They’ve gone untouched for almost 2 years and were originally written prior to the iphone, ipad, and microsoft surface. It’s amazing how far the technology has come in such a short time.

Enjoy and let me know

If you’re not familiar with bloom, it’s a very simple music creation application. Press anywhere on the screen to create circles that grow and ‘bloom.’ As they fade out and re-appear, they play a note. The note is based on the x-axis. As you move right, the notes go higher.

Click the above image to play

How to use:

-Press on screen (mouse, touch, multi-touch)
-Rollover/touch/click already created circles to remove them and their sound
-Press the upper left ‘clear’ button to clear all circles and sounds on screen.

Downloads:
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