Beat Kitchen

Spend a rainy Saturday with me talking about my ten favorite chords. Harmony Workshop is $99 and includes a full month of BKS residency to participate in music theory gyms, breakdown your favorite mixes, and get production help from me and the crew in office hours.
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Beat Kitchen Beat Kitchen is a live, collaborative music school offering small group classes, real-time feedback, and hands-on training in music production, performance, and creative skills.

I’m hosting a FREE music theory gym in about half an hour on our Discord server. I’m going to demo the new Beat Kitchen 10 Chord Toolkit — WHEEL prototype. It will be available for free soon. Bring your questions and bonus points if you bring a song you’d like to explore.

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“signaling class solidarity”

There are lots of fancy scales. They’re fun. But don’t forget these.

I need your help. You know those cartoons where someone dumps paint or flour on an invisible person or a ghost and it reveals them? Well that’s what music theory does to music — and I thought I could just find a good Scooby Doo or Tom and Jerry clip for a post but I’ve come up short. Anyone?

I think there’s been a misunderstanding. I don’t use a hi-hat mic because I want more hi-hat. It’s so I can color the hi-hat that’s bleeding into all the other microphones if I need to.

Audio compression has a couple flavors: upward and downward. What’s the difference? Join me for ear training gym. If you can’t make it, watch this video.

First Wednesday of the month I host a free Music theory gym to all Beat Kitchen guests on our discord server. Feel free to stop by at 8 AM Pacific or 6 PM Pacific. Bring your questions and let’s dive in to a song. Leave requests below or post them to our discord. See you there!

First songs – including yours – have tremendous power. If you could bottle and sell the beginner’s mind, you’d be a zillionaire. Don’t sleep on rookies. And don’t forget where you came from.

Join my full day harmony intensive, April 19–100 $ – it includes a full month of Beat Kitchen residency ❤️

What made that music magic? What made it urgent? What rhythm made you giddy? What chords moved you? Whatever you do, remember that feeling. It’s a vital source, a well that will never run dry. It will keep you young so long as you honor its source.

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And it should sound good enough that you can’t wait to use it.

What mic is that?

Get something of high enough quality that your next microphone will supplement it — not replace it. recognizable enough that you will always be able to sell it. Flexible enough that you can use it for more than one thing…

What kind of microphone should I buy? When someone asks me for advice when it comes to buying their first microphone, it’s usually this:

The flat-side is the gateway to borrowed cords. #MusicTheory #PumpOrgan #Chords

Finishing songs is a skill just like anything else. If you don’t practice it, you don’t get better at it. Every time you abandon one, you reinforce the habit.

Cinematography workshop tomorrow
Vocal kitchen starts next week
Orchestral kitchen March 8

From a Music Theory Gym a few weeks ago, this is another important bit of keyboard vocabulary.

This song example was taken from the wonderful Nina Simone, “I wish I knew how it would feel to be free“, featuring pianist Billy Taylor.

#MusicTheory #Chords

Best music theory gym question of the week: is a dominant chord a kind of suspension? 

I think we need to start thinking from the bottom up rather than the top down. Local government, particularly here in the PWN is more important now than ever. And it’s always been important.

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Sorry… not a music post

He's running for Seattle City Attorney and needs signatures and S10 donations to qualify for democracy vouchers.

His goal is to unseat conservative, Ann Davison who's too busy prosecuting protesters to bother with the local DUl case backlog.

Time to show her and her MAGA friends the door.

If you live in #SEATTLE you may be familiar with democracy vouchers.

@electrory.bsky.social was one of the architects of vouchers. Vouchers take big money out of local races.

YOUR JOB: Choose any person, living or dead, and make them a musical theme. Who do you choose. What’s the vibe?

If you don’t, join our Hardware and Recording primer, or stop by office hours if you are a resident. If you’re not ready, follow us and I will try to explain it in a video.

If you want to understand how audio moves in a studio, go to the patchbay and learn it. The top row connects to the bottom. If you understand what a patchbay does, 90% of your questions will be answered there.

I have no idea if videos makes sense here, but I’d love to replace Instagram, so I’m going to try doing everything I do there over here. Let’s play some chords. #MusicTheory #Piano #Chords

I think you are being unfare.