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Music Theory for Songwriters: Rhythm

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Improve your songwriting process by factoring for rhythm and building rhythm. Explore note values, time signatures, feel, timing, dynamics, syncopation, and more.Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. This course is designed to teach the fundamentals of rhythm in both a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way, demonstrating rhythm on drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, and vocals, allowing songwriters to learn music theory while they learn song craft on their instruments. Music producer and record label owner David Franz starts the course with the building blocks of rhythm: counting, notes, measures, rests, rhythm notation, subdivisions, and tempo. He then explains time signatures, discussing common, compound, and asymmetrical time signatures, as well as double time and half time, and how to choose the time signature for a song. Next, he discusses the concepts of feel and timing, including dynamics, accents, articulations, tempo changes, swing, syncopation, polyrhythms, and playing ahead of, on, and behind the beat. Along the way, David demonstrates all of these concepts by playing musical examples on drums, guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocals.

Music Theory for Songwriters: The Fundamentals

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Professional musician Julian Velard covers the basics of music theory through the lens of songwriting. Explore intervals, chord progressions, voice leading, song forms, and more.Music theory is fundamental to making and playing music. However, no one has taught it in such a user-friendly and songwriting-focused way as we do here, using both keyboard and guitar to demonstrate the techniques.Professional musician Julian Velard starts the course with the building blocks of harmony: notes, scales, intervals, chords, inversions, and basic chord progressions. He then goes into voice leading—showing how to move from one chord to another by changing just one or two notes—and reviews common song forms, from the familiar verse/chorus/verse of pop to the simple verse of the blues. At the end of each chapter, Julian explains the songwriting techniques shown in the chapter within the context of his own original commercially released songs.

Prepare for the Microsoft 365 Fundamentals Exam (MS-900)

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The Microsoft 365 Fundamentals exam (MS-900) is ideal for anyone hoping to demonstrate foundational knowledge of the Microsoft SaaS cloud model. The courses in this learning path lead you to a deeper understanding of general cloud concepts and services as well as those specific to Microsoft 365. Explore the core services of Microsoft 365.Learn components of Microsoft 365 security and compliance.Identify options for subscriptions, licensing, and billing.

Prepare for the Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate Exam (MS-700)

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The Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate exam focuses on the skills needed to plan, configure, deploy, and manage Microsoft Teams across an organization. These courses help you study exam topics, including upgrading from Skype and managing access and security.Learn how to manage meetings and policies.Prepare for the Teams Administrator certification.Deploy Teams across an organization.

SQL Server Performance for Developers

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Review concepts and strategies to help you enhance your app's performance on Microsoft SQL Server. Discover best practices for building efficient, scalable database applications.Developers face an array of challenges when trying to develop performant applications for Microsoft SQL Server. In this course, instructor Joey D'Antoni shares concepts and strategies that can help you enhance your app's performance on SQL Server. Throughout this course, Joey walks through best practices for building efficient, scalable database applications. He covers an array of topics, including execution plans, columnstore indexes, datatypes, temporary objects, and what not to do with SQL Server. He also goes over indexing, and shares how best to create temporary objects.IntroductionWelcomeWhat you should know1. Query ExecutionExecution plans introductionHow to read an execution planExecution plan XMLsKey lookup: When it's good and when it's badNested loop vs. hash joinQuery StoreStored procedures vs. dynamic SQLMissing index warnings2. What Not to Do with SQL ServerWhy cursors are badWhy while loops are cursorsWhat to do instead of cursorsWhy scalar UDFs are expensiveViews and vested viewsWhy stored procedures are better than views for reports3. Datatypes and DesignThe importance of datatypesGUIDs vs. INT/BIGINTUnicode dataThe perils of storing files in your databaseWhat datatype conversions do to your query performance4. Temporary ObjectsTemp tablesTable variablesIn-memory temp tables5. IndexingChoosing a PK or clustered index keyWhy you want a clustered indexWhere you might not want a clustered indexOverview of nonclustered indexesIncluded column explanationFiltered indexes6. ColumnstoreWhat is a columnstore index?Clustered columnstore and DWNonclustered columnstore: Why?Using filtered nonclustered columnstore for HTAP7. Isolation LevelsTransaction isolationRCSI: Why it's goodImplicit transactions: Why they're terribleConclusionNext steps

Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

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Learn how to design and implement an enterprise data warehouse, with Microsoft SQL Server.Learn how to design and implement an enterprise data warehouse. Microsoft Certified Trainer Martin Guidry shows how to design fact and dimension tables using both the star and snowflake techniques, use data quality services to cleanse data, and implement an ETL process with SQL Server integration services.IntroductionWelcomeWhat you should knowUsing the exercise files1. Setting Up the EnvironmentFinding and downloading SQL Server 2012 trial editionInstalling SQL Server 2012 trial editionFinding and installing the sample data2. Introduction to Data WarehousingOverview of data warehousingUnderstanding the differences between typical databases and data warehousesImplementing a data warehouse using a SQL database engine3. Designing a Data WarehouseLogical design for a data warehouseChoosing between star and snowflake schema design techniquesPhysical design for a data warehouse4. Data Warehouse HardwareConsiderations for building a data warehouseData warehouse reference architecturesAppliances and big data5. Creating an Extract Transform and Load (ETL) Solution with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)Introduction to ETL with SSISExploring source dataIntroduction to control flowImplementing data flow6. Debugging and Troubleshooting SSIS PackagesDebugging an SSIS packageLogging SSIS package eventsHandling errors in an SSIS package7. Implementing an Incremental ETL ProcessIntroduction to incremental ETLExtracting modified dataLoading modified dataWorking with slowly changing dimensions8. Deploying and Configuring SSIS PackagesInstalling and maintaining SSIS componentsDeploying SSIS solutionsUsing SQL Server Agent to execute an ETL packageConfiguring advanced SSIS settings9. Enforcing Data QualityInstalling Data Quality ServicesUsing Data Quality Services to cleanse dataUsing Data Quality Services to find duplicate dataUtilizing Data Quality Services in an SSIS data flow10. Consuming Data in a Data WarehouseIntroduction to business intelligenceUsing Reporting Services with a data warehouseIntroduction to data analysis with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)ConclusionNext steps

Percepção Musical

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Class Central TipsLearn How to Sign up to Coursera courses for free1600+ Coursera Courses That Are Still Completely FreeExplore os elementos básicos que compoem a música, desenvolva sua percepção, tire músicas de ouvido, e aprenda a ler e escrever usando notação musical. Procuramos criar um curso que unisse a cultura e música brasileira com técnicas de aprendizado de solfejo e leitura rítmica. Você fará parte de uma aula de Percepção Musical ("Ear Training") na Berklee College of Music, cantando e praticando com outros alunos e interagindo com os vídeos. Além disso, você terá acesso a material para praticar, como faixas de acompanhamento e partituras. O material usado para estudo é derivado de grandes exemplos da música brasileira, demonstrados por artistas de fama internacional como João Donato e Alcione, entre outros. O curso, apresentado pelo professor da Berklee College of Music, Gilson Schachnik, cobre as escalas pentatônica, maior, menor natural, e o modo mixolídio, além de vários conceitos rítmicos e progressões harmônicas. Além do material estudado, cada aula apresenta entrevistas com os artistas envolvidos.Nesse curso, dividido em 6 aulas, você irá usar solfejo para aprender música de ouvido, como transcrever o ritmo da música e, finalmente, como usar todos esses elementos para escrever a música com notação musical e transpor para qualquer tom. Também será dada atenção para a prática de percepção musical direcionada a harmonia e culminando com a última aula aonde você irá compor uma música usando todos os elementos aprendidos no curso. Os projetos são corrigidos e avaliados pelos alunos, criando uma comunidade unida pelo amor à música.

Prepare for the Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security Exam (MS-101)

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Study the security skills that Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrators need to prepare for Exam MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security. This path covers objectives from each domain, including implementing modern device services and managing Microsoft 365 governance and compliance.Implement Microsoft 365 security and threat management.ManageMicrosoft 365 governance and compliance.Prepare for and pass the MS-101 exam.

Mixing Techniques for Pop Music Part 1

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Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making song mixing techniques.Interested in producing the next chart-topping pop song? Or simply using classic pop techniques to blend the many different elements of today's modern multitrack recording sessions into one seamless song? In this course, multi-platinum producer, engineer, and mixer Brian Malouf demonstrates his hit-making mixing techniques. These lessons can be used on pop, jazz, country, folk, or any other recordings you want to turn into solid two-track stereo mixes.Brian starts with the basics of creating a mix template and getting a good raw balance of the instruments in the mix. He then dives deep into signal processing techniques on many types of instruments, including drums, bass, guitar, keys, vocals, percussion, strings, and brass. He'll pick out and treat individual tracks with compression and EQ, add space with reverb and echo, and modulate the sound with flangers and phase shifters. Pro Tools is used throughout the course, but the techniques will work equally well with the DAW of your choice.

Learning SQL Server 2017

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Get started with SQL Server 2017. Explore the most important features of SQL Server, and learn how the server operates, how to create tables and manipulate data, and more.Microsoft SQL Server can be an intimidating system. In this course, instructor Adam Wilbert provides a quick overview of how SQL Server works—which can go a long way to making you feel more comfortable as you start exploring its powerful capabilities. Adam goes over the most important features of SQL Server 2017, helping to familiarize you with how the server operates. He introduces the main working environment—SQL Server Management Studio—and walks through how to start creating tables and manipulating data.

Prepare for the MS-100: Microsoft 365 Identity and Services Exam

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Certification is an ideal way to showcase your knowledge. The MS-100 exam is designed to test the skills of Microsoft enterprise administrators in charge of deploying and managing Microsoft 365 services. Dive into these courses to learn the skills you need to prepare for this exam.Manage Azure AD identities.Manage Microsoft 365 subscriptions.Plan for apps and messaging deployments.

Motion Graphic Music Videos: The Work of Scott Pagano

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Scott Pagano, head of LA design studio Neither-Field, walks us through the motion-based, viral music videos he designed for the electronic music trio the M Machine.In this Start to Finish documentary, Scott Pagano, head of LA design studio Neither-Field, walks us through the cinematic, motion-based music video he designed for electronic music group the M Machine. Taking inspiration from Fritz Lang's classic film of the same name, Metropolis Pt. II takes you on a path to the beating "heart" of a city, punctuated by moments that rise and fall with the music. Scott explains how he constructed the buildings using Maya's particle system, designed the mechanical vines that guide the viewer along, and built the mechanized human figure at the city's center, which explodes to reveal its own inner workings. Find more Start to Finish courses in here.

Prepare for the Microsoft Managing Modern Desktops Exam (MD-101)

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Study the skills enterprise desktop administrators need to prepare for the Managing Modern Desktops (MD-101) exam: deploying operating systems; managing devices, apps, and data; and more. This path covers practical skills for modern desktop management that align with the domains of the exam.Learn to deploy, configure, and secure operating systems.Become proficient with Microsoft 365 workloads.Prepare for the Microsoft MD-101 exam.

Learning Microsoft SQL Server 2019

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Get a quick introduction to SQL Server 2019. This course was designed to help brand-new users quickly get up and running with this professional-grade database management system.Never worked with a database before? In this course, Adam Wilbert goes over the most important features of working with SQL Server 2019, providing brand-new users with a first look at how the server operates. Instructor Adam Wilbert introduces the main working environment, SQL Server Management Studio, and walks you through how to create tables, define relationships, and write and run queries with Transact-SQL commands. Upon wrapping up this course, you’ll know everything you need to accomplish to create your first database. Start watching to quickly get up and running with this professional-grade database management system.

OneDrive for Business Essential Training

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Learn how to store and organize your files using OneDrive for Business.Get started with OneDrive for Business, the cloud-based file management system included with Microsoft Office. Follow along with Jess Stratton as she shows how to use OneDrive for Business to keep files organized and accessible. Covering both the desktop client app and the browser version of OneDrive for Business, this course shows how to upload, copy, delete, and download files and folders, and integrate with Office Online. Jess demonstrates how to share files using OneDrive and how to work on files collaboratively with colleagues.