A New Experiment

You may recall from an earlier post that I enrolled in and completed an online course called Introduction to Music Production. I highly recommend the course if you are interested in recording or otherwise making music, and you have never really studied the topics. In any case, I really enjoyed the course (although, due to taking a second course at the same time, I had a difficult time keeping up with the deadlines.) To me the most value in the course came from having to absorb the content, and then apply it to your own context (e.g. how to record audio using the tools in your home studio). For most of the course, the best presentation format would have been video. However, I found the process of creating video to be horrendously difficult, until I found a free video editing/video screen capture program called Active Presenter. So for my final assignment I created a video. I had a rough time with making the video due to computer resource limitations that I have now resolved.

Once I completed the course, I told myself that I would go back through the entire course on my own once again, and work more carefully through the assignments. Now that I have this blog space, I have a forum for posting the things I learned. I can make the topics accessible to the average recreational musician. The lesson section of my blog (see the sidebar) is where I'm posting my "assignments" as I would complete them if I were taking the course now. In a way, I am taking the course all over again, but now I can take my time and let the information soak into my mind so I can retain it a little longer. I'm going to try to keep the articles (and videos, if I dare to try again) somewhat brief. Enough to learn something and maybe give you something to look up elsewhere. Keeping them short may require that I write a bunch of articles, so I'll try to organize them into categories the list grows. (As you can see, I'm already starting the categorization. I probably need to learn how to use tags too.)

Along the way, I'll also try to provide links to the work of other folks that I find helpful. After all, I'm no expert. I'm just learning all this stuff. Let's learn together!