Common chord progression: Which flavor of minor? 
Who needs mastering anyway? 
Are questions? Learning music? Lay it on me
Choosing a microphone: resource management 
Bread and butter chord progression: 6/3 church resolution  #piano
Haas Effect: landmark for milliseconds — mixing & music classes start this fall — join from home
The “Four Chord Progression”
NEVER use anything but linear phase EQ??
Beats (and phase)
Phase and polarity on a cylinder 
Microphones: Tape and the Proximity Effect
10 things that are more important than your vocal chain 
Phase as a cylinder 
Gain stage: not a verb 
Frequency, octaves , sample rate 
Better talkback 
Music is about creating not just consuming 
Inharmonicity: Piano tuning — learn music and audio engineering at Beat Kitchen 
Stop “singing”
Phase in sixty seconds
“Learning to Mix”
The Minor Augmented Chord
Obsessed with the oil/water inversion chord
Microphone capsules: making feedback worse 
Hosting a room acoustics workshop. Share your space and get suggestions on how to improve it 
Stereo is like a highlighter
Beach rant: Analog recall and workflow hack 
ADSR: sustain
Signal flow: it all boils down to this… 
Half diminished shell
That buzz
Finishing songs
Your microphone comes with reverb 
“As“ Stevie Wonder: Musician basics theory class starts this fall. Live teaching, join from home. 
Packing light: where do I engage my high pass filter 
Explain compression and a sidechain in 30 seconds 
Mastering: Perfect, Pretty, Loud
Microphone polar patterns PT. 2
Microphone polar patterns part one: an unscientific study 
Eight useful scales: learning knots
Sample and hold: the most slept-on waveform (updated) 
Tetrachord combinations and modes - music theory gym every week, classes start in the fall 
Tetrachord combinations. Comment for a cleaner version and a chart. Sorry for bad sound 
Accidentals 
A microphone pad can provide nuanced tone control 
Tetrachord: a key to scales. 
August 5 free BKS theory gym: 5 PM Pacific – discord 
getting started in music production: what do you need? what’s your first upgrade? 
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7 March 2022