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Ethan Hein
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Doctoral Fellow in Music Education at NYU; adjunct professor of music technology and music education at Montclair State University
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Rap Spring 2022
Feb 25, 202200:03:32Tap to summarizeI'm making my students rap, and to encourage them, I'm doing it to. Samples are from Erroll Garner's recording of "Close To You" by the Carpenters. rap Does anybody need to hear a white dad rapping? Can I get your foot tapping, your hands clapping? As I'm uncapping my rhymes, am I remapping your minds? Am I overlapping all of the lines? This is music education I write this for the motivation of the Pop Practicum It's practical and praxial An actual factual academic requirement Am I going to be making beats in my retirement? You may ask, why me, why do I have to do this? How will I get through this? Will I sound corny and inauthentic? I'm feeling frantic, it's not romantic I'm digging through Rhymezone.com traversing the rhizome, not calm, following a trail of free association exersizing my freedom of association and freedom of speech This is an unorthodox way to teach I'm not an emcee, more of a producer I hope this beat gets you looser It's Errol Garner playing a song by the Carpenters like a feral farmer sharpening the long tools of a gardener Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near? Just like me, they long to be a dope emcee Do you believe me? I listen to too much Lin-Manuel Miranda, can you tell? maybe you can't understand a word maybe I'm being too clever that will be my problem forever I feel no need to make sense whatsoever but whatever Whenever I write rhymes the light shines in me and maybe in you too So now let me hear what you can do
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Seximal Primodality Second Octave
Oct 15, 202100:02:51Tap to summarizeExperiments in just intonation. 12/12 (1/1) - unison 13/12 - neutral second 14/12 (7/6) - subminor third 15/12 (5/4) - major third 16/12 (4/3) - perfect fourth 17/12 - larger septendecimal tritone 18/12 (3/2) - perfect fifth 19/12 - large undevicesimal minor sixth 20/12 (5/3) - major sixth 21/12 (7/4) - harmonic seventh 22/12 - undecimal neutral seventh 23/12 - vicesimotertial major seventh 24/12 (2/1) - octave Read more: http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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Seximal Primodality First Octave
Oct 15, 202100:02:51Tap to summarizeExperiments in just intonation. 6/6 (1/1) - unison 7/6 - subminor third 8/6 (4/3) - perfect fourth 9/6 (3/2) - perfect fifth 10/6 (5/3) - major sixth 11/6 - undecimal neutral seventh 12/6 (2/1) - octave Read more: http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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Quartal Primodality - First Octave
Oct 11, 202100:07:05Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 4/4 (1/1) – unison 5/4 – major third 6/4 (3/2) – perfect fifth 7/4 – harmonic seventh 8/4 (2/1) – octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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Nonary Primodality - Second Octave
Oct 11, 202100:04:35Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 18/18 (1/1) - unison 19/18 - large undevicesimal semitone 20/18 (10/9) - small whole tone 21/18 (7/6) - subminor third 22/18 (11/9) - neutral third 23/18 - not named 24/18 (4/3) - perfect fourth 25/18 - augmented fourth 26/18 (13/9) - tridecimal diminished fifth 27/18 (3/2) - perfect fifth 28/18 (14/9) - subminor sixth 29/18 - unnamed 30/18 (5/3) - major sixth 31/18 - unnamed 32/18 (16/9) - Pythagorean minor seventh 33/18 (11/6) - undecimal neutral seventh 34/18 (17/9) - large septendecimal major seventh 35/18 - septimal semidiminished octave 36/18 (2/1) - octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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Oct 9, 202100:04:30Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 9/9 (1/1) - unison 10/9 - small whole tone 11/9 - neutral third 12/9 (4/3) - perfect fourth 13/9 - tridecimal diminished fifth 14/9 - subminor sixth 15/9 (5/3) - major sixth 16/9 - Pythagorean minor seventh 17/9 - large septendecimal major seventh 18/9 (2/1) - octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
Transcribe →Undecimal Primodality - First Octave
Oct 9, 202100:04:02Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 11/11 (1/1) - unison 12/11 - neutral second 13/11 - neo-Gothic minor third 14/11 - undecimal major third 15/11 - undecimal augmented fourth 16/11 - minor fifth 17/11 - septendecimal subminor sixth 18/11 - undecimal neutral sixth 19/11 - undevicesimal semitwelfth 20/11 - small undecimal neutral seventh 21/11 - large undecimal diminished octave 22/11 (2/1) - octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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Oct 9, 202100:02:56Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 5/5 (1/1) - unison 6/5 - minor third 7/5 - narrow tritone 8/5 - minor sixth 9/5 - minor seventh 10/5 (2/1) - octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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Oct 9, 202100:02:56Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 10/10 (1/1) - unison 11/10 - undecimal submajor second 12/10 (6/5) - minor third 13/10 - tridecimal semisixth 14/10 (7/5) - narrow tritone 15/10 (3/2) - perfect fifth 16/10 (8/5) - minor sixth 17/10 - septendecimal major sixth 18/10 (9/5) - minor seventh 19/20 - undevicesimal diminished octave 20/10 (2/1) - octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
Transcribe →Septimal Primodality - Second Octave
Oct 9, 202100:03:48Tap to summarizeExperiments with microtonal tuning 14/14 (1/1) - unison 15/14 - septimal diatonic semitone 16/14 (8/7) - supermajor second 17/14 - septendecimal supraminor third 18/14 (9/7) - supermajor third 19/14 - Hendrix fourth 20/14 (10/7) - high tritone 21/14 (3/2) - perfect fifth 22/14 (11/7) - undecimal minor sixth 23/14 - unnamed 24/14 (12/7) - supermajor sixth 25/14 - middle minor seventh 26/14 (13/7) - tridecimal submajor seventh 27/14 - supermajor seventh 28/14 (2/1) - octave http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2021/i-made-some-music-in-exotic-just-intonation-tunings-because-why-not/
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