
Overcome knowledge, ability, accessibility, and talent thresholds to make music, from chords and instrument feel to cost and access; listen to your inner musician and pursue your desire.
Discover your inner musician to listen, observe, communicate, and encourage others, using yourself as the true instrument and pursuing creativity and personal growth for any background.
Find your inner musician, a primal part that coexists with silence, by connecting to silence first, then recognize melody, rhythm, harmony, tone, and active listening in sound.
Discover how inner musicianship emerges by listening to sounds inside and around you, inspired by Eddie Van Halen. Try a guided sound walk at home to practice meditative listening.
This is a sound walk that was recorded in September 2020, with stops at eight locations along Waterfront Drive in Winnipeg, Manitoba. At each location, identify musical elements such as rhythm, melody, drone, noise, silence and texture. Identify the location and motion of sound sources in relation to the listener (you). Categorize sources as biological, environmental, mechanical and anthropological.
Explore musique concrete, pioneered by Pierre Schaeffer in the 1940s, by recording sounds and manipulating them with electronic techniques using a field recorder.
Explore how drones and pedal tones open music to sound art, using bells, bowls, and gongs to connect with your inner musician through listening, while debunking unverified frequency claims.
Explore how rhythm unlocks your inner drummer by connecting body and mind through groove, practicing with a hand drum or electronic pads, and refining listening and self-awareness through recording.
The guide to handpans I refer to is attached to this lecture if you want to download it.
Explore the next phase on the iPad with 22 categories of apps to fuel your inner musician, based on a 600-app foundation updated since 2019.
View basic utilities as house analogies for apps: understand plumbing, heating, and wiring as ways to transport energy and resources and connect to the outside world.
The biggest change since this course was first published in 2019 is that AUM has supplanted Audiobus as the app most commonly used for linking apps.
Explore inter-app audio and audio units, a hub-and-node system where a central app (DAW or recording device) hosts multiple apps as nodes on Mac and iOS.
Explore AudioShare as a versatile file manager for music projects, enabling storage, playback, cropping, normalization, cross-app import, and recording standalone or via audio bus.
Store and organize music files with cloud storage like Dropbox or iCloud. Transfer files between devices to support resource management for music apps and music libraries.
Explore how to connect guitars and keyboards to iOS devices using MIDI and various interfaces, from old jacks to Lightning, and understand velocity sensitivity with pads, Launchpad, and Rolly blocks.
Republished June 2023 With 2.5 Hours of New Content!
Many people go through life believing they have no musical ability and can only be listeners. But music is part of life and everyone is connected to it in some way. Discovering your own personal connection to the world of sound and music can open new avenues of experience and self-awareness.
Finding Your Inner Musician eschews the demands of conventional music teaching to open up a direct path between you and the world of sound using simple, accessible instruments and tools and takes you on a journey through this world in search of your Inner Musician. You may find it in the most unexpected places!
In particular, the course leverages the possibilities of the iPad and its ecosystem of music apps, many of which are uniquely visual, intuitive and fun. It puts everything you need right in your hands and allows you to do whatever you want, whenever you want. It brings down the obstacles to music making many people that come with the conventional approach, such as the need to know theory, to play an instrument or buy expensive software that takes a long time to master.
It also shows you how to connect with the simplest elements of music that surround us at all times and building your sound practice from the inside out.