Week 1 (1/13)⌗

Tuesday⌗

Homework

Read Corey Introduction and Chapter 1

Thursday⌗

  • Corey, Chapter 1: Listening
  • Quiz 0 – EQ anchors (initial set)
    • Frequencies: 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: +12 dB only
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Pink noise → one fixed music excerpt

Week 2 (1/20)⌗

Tuesday⌗

Thursday⌗

Week 3 (1/27)⌗

Tuesday⌗

  • Quiz 1 postponed to Thursday because of Pinnacle visit last week
    • Each week we’ll pick one song to use in our in-class EQ practice or analysis exercises
    • Working with the EQ Practice Module
      • Quiz 1 practice - the first real quiz will be on Tuesday
        • 1 octave, 1 band, + 12 dB, pink noise and kick-it.m4a (the “can I kick it” loop), freq 500 to 2000 Hz
      • Practice singing vowel sounds as a class!
      • practice with other music from that Corey list?
  • Chapter 7 - Analysis of sound

Thursday⌗

Quiz 1 – EQ anchors (initial set)

  • Frequencies: 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz
  • Bands: 1
  • Gain: +12 dB only
  • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
  • Source: Pink noise → one fixed music excerpt
  • Quiz 2 (next Tuesday) practice – EQ anchors, reduced gain
    • Practice Type: Matching Memory
    • Frequencies: 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: +6 dB only
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Same as Quiz 1
  • Finish - Chapter 7 - Analysis of sound - 20 minutes

Week 4 (2/3)⌗

Tuesday⌗

  • Quiz 2 – EQ anchors, reduced gain
    • Frequencies: 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: +6 dB only
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Same as Quiz 1
  • discuss Sheryl Crow: “Strong Enough”

Two volunteers for next week’s journal presentations. You’ll have about 15 minutes each to talk about your song analysis and answer questions.

More instructions on journals/presentations - instructions

Thursday⌗

  • Name that tune - 10 minutes
  • Finish Strong Enough analysis - 20 minutes
  • Quiz 3 practice – Expanded octave range
    • Frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: +12 dB only
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Pink noise + same music excerpt

Week 5 (2/10)⌗

Tuesday⌗

Quiz 3 – Expanded octave range

  • Frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz
  • Bands: 1
  • Gain: +12 dB only
  • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
  • Source: Pink noise + same music excerpt

Thursday⌗

  • Name that Tune! / Heardle - 10 minutes
  • Questions to Guide Listening
    • Pick a song and analyze it using the questions in the guided listening document
  • Peter Gabriel - In your eyes from Corey
  • Quiz 4 Practice – Boost vs cut
    • Frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: ±12 dB
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Same as Quiz 3

Week 6 (2/17)⌗

Tuesday⌗

Quiz 4 – Boost vs cut

  • Frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz
  • Bands: 1
  • Gain: ±12 dB
  • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
  • Source: Same as Quiz 3
  • First student journal presentations and discussion
    • Shea
    • Millie

Thursday⌗

  • name that tune - 10 min
  • Volunteers for next week’s journal presentations?
  • Quiz 5 in class practice – Full octave anchors
    • Frequencies: 63 Hz, 125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz, 8 kHz, 16 kHz
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: +12 dB only
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Music excerpts only
  • Moylan: 6 A System for Evaluating Sound - Plotting Sources Against a Timeline
  • Plotting an instrument’s frequency content over time
    • pick a small section and choose a few important instruments
    • use band and bandpass filters in Reaper to find the frequency ranges.
    • or view spectral peaks and add spectral edits to turn down the gains of small portions of the audio. Use this data to make your graphs more accurate.
    • InYourEyesAnalysis.drawio.png
    • Follow along with me to make another graph for a different section of In Your Eyes

Week 7 (2/24)⌗

Tuesday⌗

Thursday⌗

  • name that tune - 10 min
  • Timbre and Spectral Balance
  • Quiz 6 practice – Third-octave neighbors
    • Frequencies: 500 hZ - 2000 hZ
    • Bands: 1
    • Gain: +12 dB only
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Pink noise → one music excerpt

Week 8 (3/3)⌗

Tuesday⌗

  • Presentations?
    • Who hasn’t gone yet?

Quiz 6 – Third-octave neighbors

  • Frequencies: 500 hZ - 2000 hZ
  • Bands: 1
  • Gain: +12 dB only
  • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
  • Source: Pink noise → one music excerpt

Thursday⌗

Week 9 (3/10)⌗

Tuesday⌗

  • Colby, Dylan
  • Who wants to present next week?
  • More listening to space and creating diagrams

Thursday⌗

  • heardle - 10 min
  • Spot the Two Bands — ear warm-up activity (10–15 min)
  • Quiz 7 practice – Two-band EQ (restricted anchors)
    • Frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz
    • Bands: 2 simultaneous
    • Gain: +9 to +12 dB (boosts only)
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Dense music excerpt (full mix or stem)

Week 10 (3/17)⌗

  • Spring Break - No Classes

Week 11 (3/24)⌗

Tuesday⌗

  • Quiz 7 – Two-band EQ (restricted anchors)
    • Frequencies: 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1 kHz, 2 kHz, 4 kHz
    • Bands: 2 simultaneous
    • Gain: +9 to +12 dB (boosts only)
    • Q: Fixed (Q ≈ 2)
    • Source: Dense music excerpt (full mix or stem)
  • Holistic Environment presentations
    • ?
  • No quiz next Tuesday

Thursday⌗

  • Research Week Symposium, no class

Week 12 (3/31)⌗

Tuesday⌗

  • Student journal presentation 8 and discussion
    • Dylan, Shea
  • Quiz 8 Practice – Compression
    • Practice Type: Matching
    • Level: 1
    • Parameter Combination: 3 Attack, 3 Release, 3 Ratio
    • Source: Percussive loop or rhythmic music excerpt

Thursday⌗

Final Paper - DUE Friday, May 1

Final Presentations - April 17, 21, 23, 28