Learning Ecosystems

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Concept, graphics, idea from Daniel S. Christian:
But free for your taking and implementing!

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What:

• Choir Practice: A mobile-based method of practicing one’s part

Features

• The ability for the choir member to go directly to measure ____
• The ability for the choir member to highlight measures ____ through ____ (like highlighting text in Microsoft Word), then click on the play button to loop through those measures
• One could speed up a song up or slow it down (without affecting pitch)
• The application would allow for all of the vocal parts to begin playing upon downloading a pre-packaged song or the application could always start playing with a certain part (i.e. 1st or 2nd soprano, alto, tenor, or bass)
• The musical notes could be the same color or one could choose to display the notes in different colors
• Bonus features might include a video of a director directing this song

Why:

• This type of thing would be a great cross-disciplinary assignment for your institution’s curriculum — Music and Computer Science come to mind for this application
• Your institution could sell this application on Apple’s App Store to develop a new revenue stream
• Your choirs could produce the packaged songs / tracks
• Plus, such an app would help choir members learn their parts — 24x7x365 — in the car, on the road, in the gym, etc.
• Enhances one’s ability to listen to other parts as well
• Aids your marketing departments as you point to this as a solid deliverable from your programs
• Creates “study aids” for your own school’s choirs/students as well as for choirs at smaller churches and institutions (worldwide)
• Helps those choir members who don’t have access to a piano or don’t know how to play a piano

Have fun whomever takes this idea and runs with it! The choirs of the world will appreciate you — and so will their audiences!   🙂

Along these lines…another win-win here includes:

• Vocalists, pianists, and other type of musicians
• Composers
• Programmers
• Graphic artists
• Videographers / video editors
• Audio specialists
• Writers
• Project Managers
• Actresses/Actors
• etc.

• Learn to appreciate other disciplines
• Participate in/contribute to projects that could be published on the web
• Exercise their creativity
• Practice being innovative

Daniel Christian