Office Hours
Weekly. Ask questions, get help, and connect. Included with residency.
Drop in with questions, get real-time help from an instructor, or just connect with other residents. Office Hours are your open door to the Beat Kitchen community.
Upcoming Sessions
Recent Sessions
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Worked through Flex Pitch and Flex Time editing in Logic Pro, covering take folder management, flattening regions, pitch correction on individual notes, and timing adjustments using flex markers. Also demonstrated a chord chart web tool that transcribes audio, detects chords and lyrics, and allows live collaborative editing with section labeling, roadmapping, and harmony wheel integration.
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Covered platform orientation for an incoming Logic Pro student, walking through the Beat Kitchen School Discord server, the web portal, session note archive, screen-sharing tools, and the screen pointer utility. Also worked through a chord analysis and arrangement issue with a returning student — specifically examining harmonic ambiguity in a post-chorus section and its relationship to a string voicing problem, using a chart editing tool to trace the issue. A Logic Pro MIDI display troubleshooting question was also addressed live.
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Worked through Logic Pro's folder and track stack system in the context of transposing a full arrangement to experiment with different keys. Covered the distinction between region folders and track stacks, demonstrated how to pack regions into a folder for bulk transposition, and discussed folders as a general project organization tool including a muted "trash can" folder technique. Also briefly covered a piano plugin installation question and discussed velocity/dynamics characteristics of piano plugins.
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Worked through a chord analysis discovery on Paul Simon's "Still Crazy After All These Years," demonstrating that the chord widely charted as a half-diminished chord is actually a minor sixth chord — verified by splitting stems and identifying a C-sharp in the piano part. Also covered setting up multiple audio interfaces simultaneously on Mac using Audio MIDI Setup and Aggregate Devices. A question about sampling permissions and copyright came up, with practical discussion of how to handle dialogue samples from broadcast media.
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Covered lead sheet and chart-writing fundamentals — including form notation, repeat signs, segno/coda navigation, and fitting a full arrangement onto a single page — using a Michelle (Beatles/jazz standard) chart as a worked example. Discussed drum kit curation workflows in Logic Pro, specifically how to audition and assemble multiple kits before committing sounds to Drum Machine Designer. Also ran a live vocal review session, listening for pitch offenses in two harmony parts drawn from a live dress rehearsal recording.
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