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The Practice of Popular Music review [2]
It's Spring Break, which means catching up on grading. In my previous post I mentioned that I'm still trying to feel out student ability....

Nicholas Shea
Mar 133 min read
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The Practice of Popular Music review [1]
Experiencing a bit of insomnia, so I thought I'd get started on what I planned to be a series of short posts on my experiences using The...

Nicholas Shea
Feb 194 min read
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Specs grading pt. 3 and an update
Hi, all! I had a few folks come up to me at SMT and tell me they enjoyed reading my blog posts about specifications grading (as dated as...

Nicholas Shea
Jan 194 min read
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Edifying book work
My son Oscar was born in late November. Since then we visited the NICU for a total of 73 days and now, thankfully, he's home and doing...

Nicholas Shea
Feb 24, 20243 min read
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Specifications grading and popular-music theory, Part 2
Before diving into the features of specifications grading, I think I should clarify that the "grading" part is a bit of a misnomer. Does...

Nicholas Shea
Apr 21, 20237 min read
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Specifications grading and popular-music theory, Part 1
This semester I taught taught Theory 4 for our popular-music majors for the first time. We recently implemented a modular curriculum at...

Nicholas Shea
Apr 20, 20232 min read
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