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Blue Microphones makes some of the most popular USB based podcasting and general recording microphones available on the market. They do a great job of marrying high end components with a great sense of style that makes the mics not only great to record on but fun to record into as well. Now Blue Microphones has come out with their latest iPod/iPad microphone, the Mikey Digital. The original Mikey came out several years ago and gained quite a following among those that wanted to use their portable devices as field recorders. Used together with or without the free BlueFiRe iOS app the Mikey Digital turns any iPad, iPod, or iPhone into a complete portable digital audio recorder capable of holding its own with commercial products by Zoom, Sony, and others.
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Thanks to a Twitter post from @SmartMusic I have found a neat little online rhythm generator that can easily be used to provide background accompaniments when having students practice scales and other exercises. Having the background beat going really does help younger students keep focused and steady, plus it makes even simple sounding exercises a lot more impressive to the... Read more
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One of the great things about being a writer for Teaching Music is that I get a chance to talk to some great teachers that normally I would never meet or probably even hear of. This month in preparation for a piece coming out in the April issue I got to meet Steve Park, an Adjunct Horn Professor at... Read more
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It’s been well over a year since I last did a real round up of the current crop of digital audio recorders and there have been a lot of changes. One of the recorders that many of my collegues swore by (The M-Audio MicroTrak 2) got discontinued, and the company got out of the portable digital audio recording business completely.... Read more
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I asked a few music teaching friends to write down what the biggest challenges to their music teaching are.Here is a smattering of the results.Andrea WilbornAdministrators who want a good and strong music education department, but have no clue how to achieve it.Grade level teachers who want their class to perform something special for a program, but expect the music... Read more
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There are dozens of tuner apps on the iPad but few that are as configurable and versatile as Cleartune.
Scorio is an iPad app that works together with the Scorio online music notation site allowing you to create and edit sheet music using the iPad's touch screen interface. Creating sheet…
Musicopolous is an iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad app that is intended to help the user practice music theory skills, mostly related to building scales, intervals, and chords as well…
Guitarists rejoice! Thanks to the Amplitube app for iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch you can now take all of your favorite effects pedals, amps, and cabinets with you without the…
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