Category: teaching
adjunct collegiate curriculum,
workshops or seminars among fellow (music-)technologists,
drum lessons and rhythm notation
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GEARing up to get the most out of drum practice : fundamentals to luxury.
Motivation: Getting into drums is a tricky affair… To play them requires sticks, hearing protection, and (usually) something to play along TO. The drums themselves are large, loud, and complicated. And that’s just getting them in the room. all that hitting and sweating leads to broken sticks to replace, grimy cymbals to polish, and replacing…
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Bad Date story #1
Motivation Most of what I share on this blog (in my shamefully sporadic output), is pretty “crunchy” technical stuff about drums, electronics, electronic-drums…and so on. After more than half-a-dozen years teaching (in some manner or another), I’m starting to change my attitude(s) about “showing my belly.” When I first started teaching, I went straight from…
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Muscle-study for Moeller-ism on the foot-control of kick-drum pedal(s)
Motivation… Working with drum students, I find myself having to (repeatedly) explain to kids and adults how to think of their drumming as a concerted effort of separate motions. Controlling sticks with hand muscles is one thing, but learning to control the kick drum pedal(s) is another challenge altogether. It is often clumsy to…
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Live Sound guest-lecture from AiPhilly alumni Jack Marron
Motivation: Occasionally I get alumni coming back to campus to show-and-tell what they’re up to in their professional word. Background Jack Marron was a student at the Art Institute of Philadelphia from Spring 2011 until graduating in 2013. While he was my one of my students at AiPh, Jack was regularly impressive in his capacity…
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Destruct Device at the Shred Shed
Matt Miller, my buddy and bandmate (from WormRider and other jams) is in an excellent grind-thrash band Destruct Device. Went to Destruct Device opened at the Shred Shed. The hey welcomed me to “do sound” on the otherwise un-manned PA. Promoter/doorMan was fine with it. So I ended up mixing vocal channels on a Mackie…
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Live Sound class gets visit from Chris Brubaker of Clair (Brothers) Sound
My Live Sound 2 class was honored to host a visit/Q+A/critique by Chris Brubaker from Clair Global. Thoughts and pics inside !
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my Live Sound class visits the Union Transfer (again)
Some Thoughts and photos from my (latest) visit to Philadelphia’s premier venue, the Union Transfer, with my advanced Live Sound class.
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my Live Sound class visits the World Cafe Live (again).
thoughts and photos from my Live Sound 2’s visit to the (upstairs) World Cafe Live
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more subbing at School of Rock
Got another call to sub at SOR; this time two seperate days. It was exciting and refreshing. Also, I’ve been pestering the General Manager to help out in other ways… fixing the abundant run-down cables, speakers, drums, etc…or even setting up a workshop to teach the Guitar class kids how to solder their own…
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presenting: VIDEO from my AES demo on drum triggers at AiPh
Last summer (09/2016), I led a workshop at the Art Institute of Philadelphia on drum triggers, covering: electromechanics of the piezo trigger sensor playing MIDI with a full human body tricks and inspirations from various sound parameters. …see my initial photo-post HERE. Several students happened to shoot video of my presentation, and over the past…