Online music teaching resources – NYU Music Experience Design Lab

Today is my last day of in-person teaching at the New School for the near (foreesable?) future, and NYU has already moved classes online. Many of you are probably in the same boat. In this post, I share my curated collection of online music teaching, learning and creation resources, and my plan for my classes going forward. This is not a comprehensive list of online resources, just the ones that I myself use.

Big collections

A spreadsheet of online music theory resources and projects, plus my New School syllabus that uses many of these things.

A spreadsheet of online music technology resources and projects.

The NYU Steinhardt Music Experience Design Lab has a variety of interesting web interactives. Two notable ones:

The Groove Pizza

Some activities and examples:

The aQWERTYon

Some useful links:

How to record from the aQWERTYon
Learn diatonic harmony from a classic breakbeat
Music for practicing scales

Other recommended sites

Chrome Music Lab
Ableton Learning Music and Learning Synths
Soundtrap and Bandlab

I will be adding more materials here over the coming weeks, so check back! Wash your hands and stay safe.

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Ethan Hein

Ethan Hein teaches music technology and music education at NYU and Montclair State University. He maintains an influential and widely-followed music blog at http://www.ethanhein.com/ and has also recently written for NewMusicBox, Quartz, and Slate. He is an active producer and composer, and you can listen to his recent work here: http://soundcloud.com/ethanhein Recently, musicians in eight countries created twenty recordings of his laptop orchestra composition “Divergence/Convergence” as part of a project by the Disquiet Junto, an online electronic music collective. As a founding member of the NYU Music Experience Design Lab, Ethan designs and researches new interfaces for music learning and expression. View all posts by Ethan Hein