We are offering extra units in the Production Through Performance and Guitar curricula to help with remote learning. These units are: ear training, major scale mastery, a mini production course, pop music transcription, and rhythm reading.
Read more#1 Learn All 12 Major Scales
Our first in the 5 Minute Theory series tackles everything from knowing the notes on the piano to spelling all 12 major scales using the circle of fourths (and memorizing it once and for all!).
Read moreHone Your Ear for Rhythms
Rhythm is one of the hardest elements of transcription, so we’ve created exercises that isolate this fundamental in ear training…
Read moreThe First Stepping Stone in Ear Training
Transcribing is the best way to develop your compositional voice, but for a beginner it’s difficult to identify the rhythms and pitches by ear…
Read moreGetting out of the Loop // Article for NAfME
Using loops seems like a perfect beginning to a music technology course, but it creates a fundamental issue with the general population student…
Read moreCurriculum Using Soundtrap // Article for Soundtrap EDU
Our Production Through Performance curriculum is a new take on the music technology class. The student-centered course uses a flipped classroom philosophy…
Read moreMix Major Interview
I had the pleasure of sitting down with Eric Jao of Mix Major to discuss music technology in the classroom, how The Shed started, and our Production Through Performance curriculum…
Read moreRudimental Drumming
This new video series is a primer for snare drum technique…