Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Recorder Tutorial

This morning I watched the Recorder Flash Tutorial. I found it a little frustrating to have the whole demo on a mac interface, because everything we use in lab is on PC. I also found the tutorial to be very clearly outlined- on a program my computer doesn't have. I only have Audition, and it sounds like what I need is SoundForge. I thought the practicality of this tutorial given the final project was pretty great- it told me exactly what to do and what problems I might run into. It was also very clear how to find the zero crosspoints to create a continuous wave. This would have benefited from having a readme section with a step-by-step list as well that students could print out.
The tuning section was a serious bust though. Listening to someone tune a recorder is essentially listening to the process of boiling live parakeets. I don't know that students will learn to tune from the chapters they've read, and if there are music students in the classroom, they will be able to help with the tuning. Do not make us sit through a tutorial tuning up the pitches- fast forward through that.
I thought the recorder tutorial was a little dull- I found myself drifting in terms of attention, and I think the tutorial could benefit from some shortening.

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