{"id":1765,"date":"2022-04-26T01:26:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/?page_id=1765"},"modified":"2022-04-27T18:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T18:52:39","slug":"workshops","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/workshops\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshops"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hi! I\u2019ve thought about what the most useful teachable<\/em> skills are as a creative music-maker, and it goes something like this, roughly from hardest to easiest:<\/p>

  1. hearing music and imitating it<\/li>
  2. chords<\/li>
  3. scales<\/li><\/ol>

    There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s not on here. I didn\u2019t put \u201cmelody\u201d, \u201charmony\u201d, or \u201crhythm,\u201d for instance. Those are all lifelong adventures, but they largely happen through #1, and through talking to other people who love music and finding out how they hear it.<\/p>

    There are definitely styles of music in the world where this is not the most logical path, but here are some genres that this makes a lot of sense for:<\/p>

    pop, rock, reggae, EDM, jazz, blues, funk, hip-hop, soul, r&b, gospel, oldtime, bluegrass, classical, new age, metal, alternative, country, musical theater, film and TV<\/p>

    Hip hop is a little different, but if you\u2019re producing you\u2019ll still want these skills. Basically everything there\u2019s a Grammy for except Global Music because I can\u2019t pretend to speak on behalf of all 100 billion people who have ever lived on Earth.<\/p>

    I\u2019ve spent the last 15 years teaching music theory and music-making (as well as making music myself). I\u2019ve taught at fancy conservatories and I\u2019ve taught 5-year-olds. I\u2019ve often been asked to teach things that aren\u2019t important in music, or things that can be explained<\/em> but not taught<\/em>.<\/p>

    I would like to take a break from that and teach you things that will directly make you a better musician.<\/p>

    I\u2019m giving live workshops over Zoom with small groups of people. I\u2019ve been obsessively plotting out the steps it takes to learn these things, and I want to walk you through them and give you lots of individual feedback. In the span of one workshop, I can give you the right techniques and resources to really knock these things out.<\/p>

    In the course of preparing these things, I\u2019ve discovered that technology can be very very<\/em> helpful, if it\u2019s done right, so I\u2019ve built an entire platform from scratch for this purpose.<\/p>

    If you\u2019d like to join me, check out the workshops that I\u2019m offering, and see if there\u2019s a time that works for you.<\/p>

    Looking forward to it!<\/p>

    \"Nate<\/p>

    Nate May<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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    Workshops Hi! I\u2019ve thought about what the most useful teachable skills are as a creative music-maker, and it goes something like this, roughly from hardest to easiest: hearing music and imitating it chords scales There\u2019s a lot that\u2019s not on here. I didn\u2019t put \u201cmelody\u201d, \u201charmony\u201d, or \u201crhythm,\u201d for instance. Those are all lifelong adventures,… Read More »Workshops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pagebuilder-full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1765\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synthase.cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}