What I think of Music Tech

So far Music Technology is an awesome class to be in. You get to listen to music, socialize, and learn fun and interesting things. If you it weren't for those things what do you get..MATH! In the beggining of the year, setting up the PA board for the bands was exciting and new. I loved setting up the PA board, cuz everyday you never knew what you were gonna get and that made you think and made you think of new ways to do things (for me anyway). But as the year progressed setting up the bands for them to play just became another chore, not that it wasn't still challenging in those aspects, it just turned out to be another routine thing. I suppose though that If we didn't do that then it would be like not copying down notes in any other class, ya in fact i suppose that is what setting up the PA is, notes. Anyway, when it comes to working with the bands..HOLY SMOKE is it HARD. It's like trying to direct preschoolers with A.D.D, except you gave them shiny toys to play with. All they ever want to do is strum something or hit something and not organize accordingly for us to do any recording properly or even do soundchecks properly..IT IS FRUSTRATING! The one thing I found hard to use and figure out was the H4 and Cubase. Cubase is really overwhelming when you first look at it, and it's even more overwhelming once you get into it, at least that's how I feel. The H4 isn't so bad once you get used to it, but, the printed off manual sheets we had to read did not help me one bit. The things that really helped me to learn were the diagrams that came along with them. When I read the sheets it meant nothing to me, but that was only because I didn't really know the vocabulary. Obviously I got used to it, but in the beggining it was aweful trying to understand what it was talking about. One thing that I don't really like about the class, is computer usage, it seems like the bands are always looking up tabs and lyrics and songs on the one computer in which we need to get stuff done. Now I may seem like im just describing this as the worst class ever, but It's actually one of the coolest classes ever. I'm always learning stuff, and I love doing blogs. When it comes to working the PA board it's always interesting and you can be very creative in the way you amplify and change the sound being produced by someone else. In a way, we are in control. dunt dunt duuuuhhh!! But I must admit that at times it feels as though we are always on our own a lot. But that can't be helped. If there's one thing I'd like to see mostly in the course it would definitly be learning totake songs produced by bands(other than PA bands) and make remix's of those songs. I think that would be a sweet thing to learn. I'd also like to learn more about computer composition of music (like garageband i suppose). Well that's it I suppose..for now.