Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 13/06/2026Beat Kitchen Harmony Wheel is now in the App Store for iOS. Think of it like a tuner for chords. It listens to music, names the chord and tries to identify its function in the context of the song. 110
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 12/08/2025There are lots of fancy scales. They’re fun. But don’t forget these. 040
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 16/07/2025I 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. 120
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 09/07/2025Audio 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. 030
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 07/04/2025Join my full day harmony intensive, April 19–100 $ – it includes a full month of Beat Kitchen residency ❤️ 030
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 01/03/2025What 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. 030
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 22/02/2025The flat-side is the gateway to borrowed cords. #MusicTheory #PumpOrgan #Chords 050
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 20/02/2025Finishing 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 0101
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 17/02/2025From 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 050
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 31/01/2025I 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 1153
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 22/01/2025It’s been bugging me for days and now I finally know where I saw this before… 140
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 20/01/2025I would say he is just “monster-curious”. Like the first time you say bloody-mary three times in a mirror just to see what happens. But this isn’t a salute you try on for size. If you try it, it fits. 181
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 02/01/2025Classic correlation ≠ causation. Maybe cybertrucks are just disproportionately driven by the incompetent. 070
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 18/12/2024The Neapolitan 6th:1st inversion of a flat two cord, resolving to five, and then home in either major or minor. You don’t hear this often, but it’s always a surprise to learn that first one isn’t minor. New music theory class starts early in the coming year! 150
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 15/12/2024This is about passing along institutional knowledge. For every little thing like this, there are 1000 others that won’t ever make it into a video. Finding the break: 142
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 02/12/2024It’s remarkable how much less patience I have for a stupid shit like this now that I canceled @nytimes.com subscription 1131
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 01/12/2024How many of you still catch yourself calling this the Apple key? 130
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 01/12/2024Tracking yourself on your maps app while you are on a flight is utterly mesmerizing 020
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 30/11/2024I really appreciate anyone’s ability to understand what I mean over and above whatever it is I say…  Also, if a fuck of seagulls is still touring, I am 100% going to go see them in concert. 030
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 26/11/2024I think we should normalize calling out this shameful practice when hotel tapwater tastes like a swamp. #bestwestern 030
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 20/11/2024Have you ever heard someone refer to a mistake in music as a “clam“? Help me test a theory. I think this might be a regional. So “yes” or “no” but also where are you! 751
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 18/11/2024Took an inspiring walk in the PNW. Salmon don’t spawn upstream it in spite of—or because of it being hard. It’s just what they do. They’ve been spawning upstream for millions of years. I couldn’t help but think of Democracy. Keep swimming. 721829
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 18/11/2024New England gets all the credit for fall, but don’t sleep on the abilities of the #PNW to represent 130
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 18/11/2024I’m at a point in my life when I no longer feel compelled to play pianos in public places – unless it looks like this and some guy decides it’s the ideal spot for their ‘Teams’ meeting. 070
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 18/11/2024Some instruments just sound better than others. People love and take care of them and they survive longer than the others. Old instruments may sound better. But I t’s not ONLY because they are old. 071
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 14/11/2024We do lots of production videos as well, but anyone not familiar with our Instagram jam, I’ve tons of harmony videos like this one that I posted today. I don’t have a good sense of this being appropriate here or not. 000
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 12/11/2024“Music theory didn’t ruin me. It just made me insufferable”. You’re speaking my language. :) 120
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 04/11/2024When people ask me how Music works, I always seem to come back to this: 031
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 31/10/2024The Yankees can still win the World Series if the scoreboard operator has the courage to act. Not my post – attribution in photo 000
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 22/10/2024When I said I wanted a ‘do-over’ for 2020, I didn’t mean literally. 030
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 19/10/2024I’m putting together a post and generated this list of coprime pairs. Stick these in your sequencer or practice them for some unexpected and evolving musical variation. (Reposted because I left out all the fours!) 000
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 19/10/2024I believe this is a “coprime sequence”. Your step sequencer accomplishes it with ease. So does your DAW. Fingers… not so much. This one: four against nine. The cycle must go 36 times before it repeats and every note plays against every other. #Music #MusicSky 131
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 18/10/2024Iterations on this idea have been coming up in gym and I want to go deeper. This #music math is out of my wheelhouse. Someone please talk to me about Cartesian sequences, set theory, prime numbers LCM, and polyrhythms! #musicsky 010
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 14/10/2024My wife knocked 150 doors. Meanwhile, I made this and I’m hoping it will resonate with someone out there. 010
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 13/10/2024The magic moment when you remove the click and your piece still stands up without it  010
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 11/10/2024Consider softening the attack of an instrument by mic’ing it from behind: The back of an upright piano, the underside of a cymbal, even the back of a violin. It can suppress some of the abrasive qualities, the clicks, hammer noise—and capture a surprisingly round, full picture of the instrument. 010
Beat Kitchen @beatkitchenschool.com · 11/10/2024Here is your pinout to convert a #MIDI cable to XLR. Run it through a snake, a patchbay, or extend it with a mic cable. Just remember you will need a second adapter on the other side. Enjoy! #MusicProduction #StudioHack 010