![]() We’ll be blessed with a freestyle rap workshop with Toni Blackman. We’ll read about how Talking Heads and Brian Eno wrote “Once in a Lifetime” and how your pop sausage is made. This doesn’t just mean literally remixing audio it’s a metonym for transforming existing music generally.Īfter this philosophical start, we’ll be doing some songwriting exercises: writing new lyrics for an existing tune, writing new music for an existing set of lyrics, writing a rap verse using an existing flow. I’ll be introducing the remix as a scaffold to more open-ended creativity. My half of the course begins with the concept of “an art class for music,” the basis of my forthcoming book with Will Kuhn. So it’s great that NYU is having music ed majors experience it. However, it is very far from the usual way that director-led notation-based ensembles work. If, like me, you come from a rock, blues, gospel, country, funk or jazz background, this process is a familiar one. Finally, they will form bands, work out arrangements of covers, and perform them. They will practice learning and arranging by ear, and playing improvised solos. This is an approach to teaching the teachers that aligns perfectly with my own philosophy, and I’m looking forward to seeing how Kimberly puts it into action.įor the following few weeks, the students will learn (and learn to teach) guitar, bass, keyboard, ukulele, and bucket drums. The class kicks off with a crucial question: What is groove? For listening examples, Kimberly is using various recordings of “Hound Dog,” “Mannish Boy,” and “Black Magic Woman.” Then she’s having the class play “ Billy Boy” using Orff instruments in different grooves: Traditional Orff, pop, heavy rock, swing (like Red Garland), bossa, and Afro-Cuban. ![]() Kimberly is centering her half of the course on Lucy Green’s classic, How Popular Musicians Learn. This is an opportunity to put some my long-standing theories into practice, so I am excited. She’s covering live performance and improvisation in the rock and “ modern band” idioms, and I’m doing songwriting and remixing in the hip-hop and dance music idioms. Kimberly is doing the first half of the semester, and I’m doing the second half. This year, for the first time, I’m co-teaching the NYU Steinhardt Music Education Popular Music Practicum with Dr Kimberly McCord.
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