Meet The "Dynamic Duo"

Meet The "Dynamic Duo"
John Kuzmich, Jr. Ph.D. & Paul Lukasiewicz

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Bandlab Breaks the Music Education MIDI Sound Barrier

 Once upon a time, school students had to know how to play an instrument to make music or know enough theory to compose a song. We all gathered in the music room or auditorium of our brick-and mortar high schools to learn music and perform it.

The music education world has seen many changes since then; and recently all education has been drastically altered. Today's high school music teachers are very fortunate to have our fingertips the cutting-edge, MIDI-driven BANDLAB for EDUCATION. We are not in-a-pickle, rushing to configure remote learning lessons. Why? Because this wonderful music production-education tool to benefits music educators to meet and exceed standards, and offer their students, public or private, and exciting music listing principles of discovery learning and much easier differentiated instruction. And it's especially well designed for today's critical distance learning needs due the national shut down of school from the virus pandemic. 





MIDI - The Music Education Tool K-12 Can't Live Without: New Benchmarks for Chromebooks

 Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) is the technical standard for connecting electronic musical instruments and computers to record, edit, and playback music.Created in 1983 and 40 years later, it is still essential in music education because playing any keyboard note can generate:

  • Notation
  • Pitch
  • Velocity
  • Panning
  • Vibrato
  • Clock Signals
  • Key Pressure

… and much more, plus hundreds of instruments and sounds; these MIDI messages act as instructions for the computer and music education software. 

All this and a bag of chips:looping, randomizing, instant transposing, cut, copy, paste, drop and drag and more. 

But it is Web MIDI, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard for MIDI on the Internet that has driven Chromebook adoption in the music education market.

More information at  https://midi.org/midi-articles/midi-the-music-education-tool-k-12-can-t-live-without-new-benchmarks-for-chromebooks