oooh, looking forward to it

Looking forward to hearing them all!

Great -- thanks, Joel, thanks, Gabe.

Pandoras Podcast series has been immensely helpful to me in enriching my music experience

Good to hear! I'm glad you've been enjoying them, Ashok.

I just love the variety that the series promise. My only suggestion would be to include a couple regarding business production of music and how the process works. Also video productions, costs, etc...

Regards,

Leonardo I. Valentin

Hi, Leonardo -

Are you referring to the financial machinations of the music industry? The costs of pressing records and distribution and that sort of information?

You guys are really bridging what Dr. F. A. Young, Esq. calls the 'musical knowledge divide'. As the Dr. says, "Our universe is one vibration composed of of an unimaginable number of vibrations'. Unfortunately earth's human 'beings' are setting off and creating so many negative vibrations the planet is swinging into a major disharmony - disastrous!"

Kudos to you guys at the Box, unleash the positive of what Pandora held. Peace

I'm unfamiliar with the work of Dr. F. A. Young. I'd like to check out the 'musical knowledge divide' he describes. Sounds like an interesting concept. Thank you, Ibn.

You guys just bloody rock!

The podcast rules!
Already helped out my son on his 1st vocal session with "dad"
As I told Kevin and Tim, it was nice to have other
pros (who listens to dad at 18)support the 'Word"
Cant wait for the Reggae pod!!!

You guys are bringing a lot of basic things back to light that some musicians (especially new ones) might forget. I have listened to the Drums and Drumming: Part 1 a handful of times and pick up on something new everytime.

Can't wait for the new line up this year, looks like we're going to learn a lot of things or at least I will.

Keep it up!

Right on, right on. Happy to hear your son's vocal recording is coming along well and that he's keeping his plosives in check, Jeff. The reggae show is indeed on its way.

And Joe, that's cool that you've checked it out a few times. We run through those concepts pretty quickly, with the idea that you may not catch everything on the first listen.

I'd like to see more r&b as a topic....please!

I'm looking forward to the minor and major tonality, the mixing vocals and the singing intervals mostly =)

Oh, and I guess "Putting Words to Music, or Music to Words" and "Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato" as well =P

More singing episodes on the way, certainly. There's no way to look at these types of music without spending a lot of time on the singers. Thanks, Vincent and Darlene.

i love your music

HI,
great contribution. I would however be interested in the specific jazz guitar sounds, and how to set them up.

Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Dominique

Hi, Dominique -- We're going to spend more time specifically on jazz sounds (and different types of hollow-body tones, too) on a future episode, I hope. Stay tuned for more jazz goodness.

Can you put together a podcast on modulation - not just direct modulation, but the also more elegant and advanced mechanics of indirect modulation?

Oooh... indirect modulation. I'm a fan of indirect modulation. I'll say this for now, Chad -- we'll get there, I think, but it's going to take us a while before we're into a topic that sophisticated. We haven't even gone into harmony yet, and indirect modulation is a very advanced harmonic concept.

So stick with us, and we'll work toward that type of conversation, but we have a ways to go.

Hey!
There are so many types of rock out there ranging from alternative, to metal, to grunge, to industrial. It would be great if you did a podcast covering them all and stating the styles of each one.

Nice idea, Sam. What are some of the stylistic/idiomatic differences you hear?

A few I hear:

Grunge uses a lot of drop-tuned guitar and bass, and those players tended to favor a warmer type of distortion than the chilly metal distortion. With industrial, of course, digital editing and synthetic manipulation of tones changes the timbres drastically.

"Alternative" gets tricky because that term is applied to such a wide range of styles -- Bjork, Mr. Bungle, and Blur have all been described as alternative, but have very little in common with each other musically.

How would you describe 'alternative' stylistically?

I've enjoyed very much the podcasts and made me enjoyed even more the music. Besides learning how to better listen to music, I'm interested in better classifying music into the different categories.

This is heaven! Almost all the podcasts awakes my interest.

My suggestion is to also include some of the basics in composing and arranging music. How to build the harmonic structures througout the song. how to connect diferent songparts smoothly.

Thanks for your very existence! Your work is great.

i messed up previewing then failed to post is it retactable like e-mail next time

Looking forward to each one of those. This is great.

Wonderful Idea!!

This Pandora just gets better and better

Thanks, guys! We're all delighted that you're enjoying these. More to come.

Gunnar, I like your suggestion to look at harmonic structure in songs. On a future podcast, I'm hoping to investigate how segues and transitions between sections are strengthened through the use of those harmonic structures.

Would you be able to post text transcripts of the podcasts also?
Thanks for all that you Pandora folks do. I really appreciate it.

Oh, hey, that's an excellent idea, Emma. PDF files of the scripts, perhaps?

Wow so many good subjects coming up. I just love this concept

greetings from a beginning producer.

How about a podcast on live recording techniques ?

Perhaps a podcast featuring live music by genre?

great programs. get down to the elements away from the surface.

Live recording techniques? As in, how to record a great live album? Hmmm.... Interesting.... How would you approach that?

Thanks for listening, guys.

i would to see more smooth jazz.
this is very very good
thank you so much.
jttools

Bring on the blues!

10-4. Blues are on the way.

Like a couple of others, I'd love to learn more about recording. I enjoyed the vocal recording pod and look forward to the mixing and mastering podcasts... Looks like you're going to fill 2007 with ease; if you ever get the time, pods covering home recording and how to produce a decent demo disc with the sort of home studio and PC equipment thats available these days may interest a few listeners?!

I opened pandora's box and found more hope than I imagined possible.

Home recording is a cool idea. There's so much to cover, what with mic'ing techniques, mixing ideas, finding the right EQs and balance, getting the best direct signals, using amp modeling, etc.

Gostaria de saber porque não consigo ouvir as minhas estações de rádio já por mim abertas.
Obrigado J. Boleto

i am very interested in metal, such as trash metal, back metal, heavy metal, power metal, death metal etc... and i will love to learn about its production and composition, specially the growling vocals and drums.

Congratulations to pandora, a place were finally music is appreciated and valued as an art an not as a a symbol of pop culture.

Wow, i cannot tell you how grateful I am for these podcasts!¿What about one about this superb and tricky music known as Bossa Nova?

phyced for the jazz improve podcast. cant wait!

Can't wait for the Reggae/Ska podcast. I've always wanted to learn about the components of these two styles and how they differ.

You're in luck, Nahia! We just finished making the reggae/ska one. It's next on the list.

The other ones are on the way. Bossa nova, eh? Hmmm...

BOa música !!! Óptimo portal de música para todos os gostos. Simplesmente sensacional, Eduardo Meireles

insanity level 9!!! These podcasts are awesome! Thank you sooooooooo much for taking the time and effort in creating these great resources. Just one more cool thing about pandora! Blues, Southern Rock, home recording, hip hop beats, the list is forever long on stuff I'd love to hear podcasts about. Looking forward to each one you bring us!

Thanks, Wayne! We're working on our first of many planned Blues-related episodes right now. It's called "The Blues Scale." Stay tuned for that one; it's just a few episodes down the line.

I just loved the podcast about Vocal Harmonization and the one with Miss Firefly's vocal pod as well.

I myself love singing, eventhough I can tell you I do NOT sing as good as the two girls I heard on the podcasts, nevertheless, I'd love to give it a try, specially only VOCALS, I enjoy listening to VOICES!

Do you think you can make a pod about singing "A CAPELLA"?

Are there tecniques to learn? Tricks?

Thank you guys for these marvelous podcasts. Hope my english is understandable, not my mother tongue.

cool! Could you do a podcast on the differences between house, trance, dance, techno, and electronica? I love that stuff, but I'm not very attuned to how to distinguish between these different forms of music...

a podcast on psy trance production ?? would love that :D

I've added all of those to our ever-growing list of topics to cover: A Cappella singing, different electronica genres, ambient music... keep the ideas coming! And thanks again for listening.

hola que programaso eh , me gustaria escuchar mi musica 100% ranchera sigan asi van a llegar muy muy lejos felicidades soy jose

Hi, I am Ali from Mexico, I enjoy listening to Pandora Podcast, I am really glad to hear about Music, and how to play it. Well, I hope this broadcast lasts a lot of time. It would be very nice to hear something about Oriental music, or the Julian Carrillo "Sonido 13'

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

a friend introduced me this web,i like the style of your setting and so many amzing music~

you guys simply rock..
it's such a bliss to have a group of enthusiasts putting up this wonderful site..

i'm a music teacher and i've benefited greatly from all these sharing and pod castings!

Very informative

Cheers. Jayne, I'm very happy to hear that these shows have helped you in your music teaching.

I am liking your site more and more every time that I use it. As someone with love of music but no educational background in music I find your introductory sessions most useful, and would very much welcome any start up program on classical guitar.

I need some new songs. I keep hearing the sameones over and over!

I am a musician and composer. Please don't forget to include Percy Faith's "Theme From A Summer Place", Led Zeppelin, and Andreas Vollenweider.

Thank you - I hope I never have to be without Pandora!

I love these podcasts! I'm going into music next year at university and these are awesome to listen to! I can't wait to hear all the ones that are coming, especially the Blues Scale and Jazz Improvisation ones. Thanks!

I was looking through the schedule of podcasts for 2007 and realised that most of the podcasts, if not all, centred on modern western music. It would be very interesting to include music from other cultures (flamenco, indian, chinese, japanese, arabic, south american, eastern europe, etc, etc.) as these have had a major influence on the development of modern western music particularly jazz and so called world music.

David: absolutely agreed that there is an overall tendency to focus on modern western music. I would like to expand this out to look at all of these other cultures' music, and hope to do more of that as the series continues. Thanks for the comment.

Brianne, congratulations on the start of your music degree! Happy graduation as well.

Just discovered you, as I was looking for something else - meaning music distribution? Continued success, you are helping many people.

Thanks, Stanley!

I think arrangement in pop music is crucial.

Absolutely, Chris. Much of it comes down to how the arrangement is written and employed in the recording. A great arranger is like a great chef... the arranger reduces the sauces (i.e. removes anything unnecessary), adds the spices (puts the right textures on the tracks), heats it for just long enough, etc.

I'm 60 years old and like a pretty wide range of music.

But I'm definitely a "know what I like and not why I like it" type of guy.

So far I've only listened to "Guitar effects", which was a blast, and Drums and Drumming" I & II, which was a real eye opener.

Thanks for helping me enjoy my music even more!

This podcast now has a warm spot on my lunch-time iPod list!

jack

Hello,

I've sent you guys an e-mail about this before, but it might have got lost or something.

This podcast is very good, and I love it. I think it'd be interesting to translate it to other languages. Is this something you'd be interested in?

Keep up the great work!

kevin:

good job ... good stuff... keep it coming.

bill

think u

I've learned more about music from your podcasts than I have in decades of listening. You get right to the core of the subject. Thank you. It is frustrating to hear only a snippet of the music you use for examples. It would be cool to have a streaming station built around the podcasts so we could listen to more of the music and learn the lessons you've just given us.
Thanks for a great service.

I'm about to listen to all of Pandora's music podcasts. I'm really excited about this feature of yours! I've been comparing the musical features that Pandora lists for several songs I like, to see what they have in common. (Give It Up by KC and the Sunshine Band, Into the Groove by Madonna, and Disco Inferno by The Trampps). I'm going to try and write my own music for a song I wrote the lyrics to, based on what I learn. LOL, maybe this is not the way to approach it. This reminds me of the time I tried to play tennis while holding a how-to-play-tennis book in one hand and a tennis racquet in the other! Wish me good luck!

Luis: We would definitely be interested in translating these to other languages. If you have a suggestion of how we could approach this, please let us know.

Steve: Thank you for your kind words. If you click on the names of any of the example songs that are linked below, you can make a streaming station immediately from any of those songs. "Create a Station" is just below the album cover on each song page. Granted, that's not as helpful as a station built entirely around the podcasts, but it's a start.

Judy: Good luck, and let us know how it goes. My primary advice would be: "Follow through on the forehand shots, particularly the down-the-line shots. Your racquet is not merely an extension of your arm."

i ask for a song by a certain artist and ya'll play some other tune. Kevin Seal is full of ----. smile

Hey, Rick,

Since we're radio -- and free radio at that -- we're not allowed to play the song immediately after you request it. That would be pay-for-play, or more similar to downloading, so that would cost money.

Just curious to hear: what song did you request?

Did I miss the pod on the blues scale or was in in with another one?? Also, looking forward to the one about brass, will we discuss the saxophone too, I forget which one or if there is only one, but you know like lisa simpson uses to play the blues (smile), anyway love your pods and all the info I'm adding to what I learned in school as a music major. Thanks. ssrb

Can I download/ purchase my profile playlist somehow without having to shop for each song one by one in itunes?

SSRB: Saxophones will be in the Woodwinds episode, not the Brass one. The Brass one will focus on Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba; we don't mean to overlook the French Horn, Euphonium, Baritone, Flugelhorn, Cornet, or any other Brass instruments, but the first episode is just Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba.

And no, the Blues Scale episode is still in progress, not completed yet. Soon, we hope.

Judi, I don't know the answer to your question, but I've forwarded it to pandora-support@pandora.com, and hopefully they can help with it. Thanks for listening.

Can i translate this and insert on my site in Poland? Thanks

Sure -- go right ahead. Thanks for asking.

Would more of the vocoder be possible? I was expecting it to be covered in synthesis.

I see the Rhodes keyboard is planned. Sweet.

We did go into vocoder a bit in the synthesis episode, but yes, hopefully more on it as time allows. We talked about vocoder in "Mixing Vocals" as well.

And yeah, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Vox, Hammond, Farfisa -- those classic vintage keyboards will soon get their due on this show.

I think this whole project is cool. I like the idea of getting more info on the production side of the business. Thanks.

Nice article and very fantastic helpful site,too!

It's great that they were giving info on the production side of the business : but it seems to have calmed down a bit now. But it would be great if they could focus on each instrument – even the weird things, like the old-school synthesizers and that sort of thing. Also, they should focus on particular style in the sense of songs for radio, live production, experimental etc. There's a lot that they can do here, and this is certainly a fantastic resource that can be pushed much much further.

Thanks for very interesting article.