133 episodes
Music Student 101 Jeremy Burns, Matthew Scott Phillips
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4.8 • 34 Ratings
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We are musicians, composers, engineers, teachers and students alike.
The path of a musician can be challenging and uncertain but it can also be enriching and great fun! This is the path we chose and we are here as your resource. Explore theory, history, ear training, technique, special topics and overall musicianship.
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130-Listener Compositions Pt.7
It is time for our 7th Listener Compositions episode. So let's enjoy the talents of our listeners! This episode will feature the original music of Fred Lancia, Mark Christie, Evan Bjork, Tom Richardson, Nikita Menkov and Devin Montes.
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129-Perfect Pitch
One out of every 10,000 people have absolute pitch (a.k.a perfect pitch). Many more, epecially musicians, wish they could have it. It's time to discuss this phenomenon and how it differs from relative pitch!
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128-Form and Analysis Pt.5-Baroque Forms
Continuing our discussion from Ep.114, we will now focus on some of the more widely known forms of the Baroque period (1600-1750 CE). We will discuss the church and chamber sonatas, the French overture, the dance suites and the fugue, just to name a few.
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127-Harmonic Progression Pt.11-Neapolitan Chord
The Neapolitan chord is a great tool for modulation and for adding intrigue to any chord progression. In this episode, we will talk about it. We will listen to it.
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126-Native American Music Pt.1
Today there are hundreds of Native American communities on the continents of North and South America. With each, their own cultures, cuisines, languages and rituals. But at the heart of all of these communities are dance and music. Let's learn about the sounds and origins of their music! This episode will focus on North America
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125-Altered Chords Pt.4
Continuing from episode 112 (Altered Chords Pt.3), we will top off our discussion of altered chords. Ready your theory brain for coloristic chord successions, chromatic sequences and non sequential linear processes!
Customer Reviews
Absolutely (late) beginner to music theory - what a revelation
Not a student, not someone comfortable with much music, but exploring, rather late, whether I can please myself with learning the Ukelele. I LOVE getting my head around music theory. It’s the key to my making sense of what can sound to me like disturbing sounds, too much going on.
So this, rather advanced for my level, clear discussion of how scales and harmonies and intervals all work, why they work, that even musicians are constantly needing to practice ear training, and the rest of it, I am finding fascinating.
Obviously I have nerdish tendencies, tend to the academic approach, so this all works for me (even when I can’t follow it fully). Giving me vocabulary to help me understand what it is that draws me to early music, pentatonic scales, all that new to me explanation of modes.
This must be SO helpful to music students but wanted to say that it’s revelatory to people like me with more or less no music education and limited music in my childhood home.
I also think as a keen podcast listener that this works very well with the just-right balance between a bit of chat between the two presenters, a bit if warmth to enable the listener to feel this isn’t a text book audio book, but also authoritative substance. Listening from the UK. And thank you.
PS sadly I have to music late enough to have some age-related hearing loss - higher frequencies - as is common. Would be very interested to hear how musicians find this affects them. Hearing aids I find somehow distort (as programmed to enable spoken voice clarity) when I try to sing. What many/most people experience in middle age. Might you be able to explore that theme sometime? How does it affect people trying to develop or progress musical practice? Though doubt it comes into student curriculum!
Guys please tidy it up.
I dip in and out.
They go off on too many conversational tangents.
I have listened to some longer sessions and waited far too long in between useful musical theory points. Set yourself a maximum duration (30-40 minutes?) and cover the ground without orthogonal discussion. I am not asking for you to be robots, just more efficient. It drives me crazy. That is why I am not a regular, I only come for particular topics. Edit & produce a little more sharply please.
Changed my life :)
Thank you guys for the great podcast, I have been listening sporadically over the last few years, slowly absorbing the ideas and making my way through every episode. As a songwriter this podcast has given me a newfound confidence and taught me all I need to know to slowly craft my music. I am always inspired and eager to write new songs using fresh theory ideas. Thank you for doing wut cha doo y’all