

Can You Hear The Blues?
In Peter van der Merwe's book Origins of the Popular Style, he argues that an understanding of the blues is imperative to understand all...


Present Wrapping
Believe it or not, in less than 60 days time, everybody's favourite pagan-festival-turned-Christian-holiday-turned-commercial-dollarfest...


Mix Up/Mash Up
Stephen Heppell, who has been called "Europe's leading expert on online education and learning spaces", argues that we've entered a...
TME Week 12B Notes
First Half with James Humberstone Stephen Heppell – Mobile devices in the classroom They have an entitlement, not in a negative way, but...

Drum Sequencers and Music First
Week 12A of Technology in Music Education was something of an exploratory week. We spent a significant amount of time during the lecture...
TME Week 12A Notes
Drumbit This is called a ‘step sequencer’ (as opposed to a DAW or notation software) because each of the notes is a step Drum programming...


Synth Parties and the Maker Movement
You never quite know what to expect when you walk into a TME lecture. I definitely wasn't expecting what you just watched (above)! Let me...

Teaching with Technology
You might have noticed that it has been a little while since my last post about Technology in Music Education. In the last couple of...

There There - Moving from Analysis to Scaffolding with a Compositional Model
In my last post, I examined some of the compositional features that make Radiohead's 'There There' such a good song. Chief among the...

Getting Started
So at the start of this semester, I had the hair-brained idea to learn to code HTML5 and build a website. I actually started quite well,...