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Things I wrote this year

NYU Steinhardt is assigning my blog in its music theory and aural skills core classes

Love Rollercoaster, Genius of Love, and nonsensical chord loops

Relative minor, relative major

The Beastie Boys, James Newton, and phonographic orality

How Infrastructure Works

Bemsha Swing

Update to the Nature Boy Megamix

Can I Kick It?

Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires

Rap before hip-hop

You're Gettin' A Little Too Smart

Gladys Knight heard it through the grapevine

Exploring Hip-Hop Pedagogies in Music Education

A brief summary of my dissertation

New Orff arrangements with Heather Fortune

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

Freedom Jazz Dance

Artificial intelligence in music

Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing

Musical Borrowing syllabus

Dies irae

Technology in Music Education - updated syllabus

If I Fell

Bach’s Duet in E minor BWV 802

Pusherman

Lil' Darlin'

I made a new track for teaching swing

Absolute Beginners

Ashes to Ashes

Moonage Daydream

Little Simz and Ramsey Lewis

Melanie's chords are usually sad

Baby, I Love You

Hip-hop creativities in music education

The saddest chord progression ever

Rock Steady

Groove Harmony outline

Over The Modal Rainbow

Ahmad Jamal and hip-hop

I made some music using modes of the harmonic series

The final day of the Song Factory course

As The World Falls Down

Songs in film and television

Building the Amen break

God Make Me Funky

Playing "Giant Steps" as an instrument

What time signature is "Row Row Row Your Boat" in?

Building the Funky Drummer beat

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

We're just normal men

Frequency and EQ

Why did 13th century Europeans think that major sixths were dissonant?

St Stephen

A nice thing happened with my music theory songs

Eye Know

The Man Who Sold The World

Life On Mars?

RIP Wayne Shorter

For No One

What is the difference between analog and digital recording?

Building Hip-Hop Educators

Where do jazz standards come from?

She's Leaving Home

Brad Mehldau plays the Beatles

Twelve-bar blues

Strawberry Fields Forever

There Was A Time (I Got To Move)

Althea

Don't Sweat The Technique

The Song Factory course