I particularly appreciate your comments about the future of music technology in music education. I am still in college so I am not out trying to implement technology into a classroom yet and a lot of this is still new to me. However, it seems to me that the idea is relatively new itself and right now we really don't know where this is going or what will happen. I think a lot of it is really neat but at the same time I really appreciate my musical training in the traditional style because for me it was very rich. I don't want to sound exclusive but I am not sure that the giving the “creation experience” should be made so common and available to the “non-traditional.” You seem to mean by “creation experience” sitting down with notation software or a looping program and creating “music” that “sounds cool.” Yeah its fun, I like to play around with that too but maybe my music sounds cool but is it really “good” music? I feel like we may loose a lot of what music is (and by that I guess I mean what is important to me and why I like music) when we are just mixing cool sounds. What about all the thought that a composer puts into a composition? The agonizing over the best way to communicate on paper what he hears in his head and to make sure that it makes since and communicates something worth communicating. I am not sure creating on the more superficial level of just having the experience will really give the student that powerful of an experience. Yes it is easy, but how much more rewarding is it to have mastered a difficult piece and play it perfectly knowing that behind your performance there were lots of hours of wrestling with the music in a practice room and the determination it took to get that piece right. That is an awesome feeling to me. And I don't think that can be recreated without the students own willingness to really think about what they are doing, i guess the process, and not just the end result.

I particularly appreciate your comments about the future of music technology in music education. I am still in college so I am not out trying to implement technology into a classroom yet and a lot of this is still new to me. However, it seems to me that the idea is relatively new itself and right now we really don't know where this is going or what will happen. I think a lot of it is really neat but at the same time I really appreciate my musical training in the traditional style because for me it was very rich. I don't want to sound exclusive but I am not sure that the giving the “creation experience” should be made so common and available to the “non-traditional.” You seem to mean by “creation experience” sitting down with notation software or a looping program and creating “music” that “sounds cool.” Yeah its fun, I like to play around with that too but maybe my music sounds cool but is it really “good” music? I feel like we may loose a lot of what music is (and by that I guess I mean what is important to me and why I like music) when we are just mixing cool sounds. What about all the thought that a composer puts into a composition? The agonizing over the best way to communicate on paper what he hears in his head and to make sure that it makes since and communicates something worth communicating. I am not sure creating on the more superficial level of just having the experience will really give the student that powerful of an experience. Yes it is easy, but how much more rewarding is it to have mastered a difficult piece and play it perfectly knowing that behind your performance there were lots of hours of wrestling with the music in a practice room and the determination it took to get that piece right. That is an awesome feeling to me. And I don't think that can be recreated without the students own willingness to really think about what they are doing, i guess the process, and not just the end result.

http://mustech.net/2007/11/13/should-we-utilize-technology-in-the-music-classroom-questions-to-ask-first

I'm student in musicians institute, joined GIT last month, I like to update my self on music technology, so keep posting this kind of information i will be your regular reader

After re-reading again, I see I have a couple of typos that I need to fix… on Monday! I pumped to get my college undergraduates interested in musicedmajor.net this year. I think you really have something going there.

Thanks. I'm going to check out your post after I read this. I appreaciate you taking the time to comment, so many people read these type of great articles and are afraid to comment. It's something I want to campaign about during the course of this year…getting people to come out of lurking and join our Global Conversation!

P.S. I enjoyed meeting you in June!