Back from winter break and excited to hear more of what my music tech students make this year. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

A couple students in my middle school music tech class formed a band with their friends. Now they’re writing, producing and releasing their own music!https://youtu.be/pz0Kq2AY0xI?si=5RZRu1HvkA7C8NI5

Middle school teachers, let your students do podcast projects. You will not be disappointed in the high quality entertainment you are about to be gifted.

Cass McCombs :: Interior Live Oak

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Interior Live Oak is a striking change of pace for Cass McCombs. Every song here has its own little signpost, an indelible sonic signature to situate and settle you on your trek across the record’s four exquisite sides.

Happy 808 day. It’s always a fun day in music tech class mferraro.craft.me/0sKbFuWNq5mson

I’ve started recording some demos of solo guitar arrangements of some sambas and choros. Experimenting with some mic techniques and drum programming in Ableton. soundcloud.com/michael-ferr...

Middle school music tech students new album drop todya open.spotify.com/album/3rieAO...

It’s cool that Junior H has a song called “Intro” that is a perfect introduction for learning to play requintos on the guitar. This song has hooked so many of my middle school guitar students in recent years. youtu.be/y3JcRIfX5Ao?...

Brazilian album of the day: Joyce's Passarinho Urbano. With 18 songs in 32 minutes, it has the pace of a Ramones album, but a very different feel! Joyce mainly covers artists censored by the military dictatorship. Usually just her voice and guitar. One of the very best Brazilian albums of the '70s.

I feel like at least half of being a middle school music tech teacher is just figuring how to troubleshoot or fix things that are broken.

Wrapped up my fourth semester this week facilitating the PVCC Brazilian Ensemble, so here are some resources I’ve compiled so far: mferraro.craft.me/Urdq77Fscpos3W

This week middle school music tech students are doing the “video beatboxing” project from Electronic Music School. www.amazon.com/Electronic-M...