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Stem Splitter Docs

Sample Activities

Try these listening activities with a recording your class is using.

You can prepare a recording on the Splitter tab, then add it to a shared folder on the Classes page so students can listen without using their daily allowance for splitting recordings. For class notes, choose Class: listen and add notes, then choose Save sharing. Check the daily Listening Guy allowance in Account before planning a chat activity.

Listen to the Parts

Choose a recording students may not know and allow them time to listen to it as a whole. They can then listen to stems separately or together, describe the sounds, and leave notes at moments they want to discuss. A stem may contain more than its label suggests.

Changes in the Music

Students can use the waveforms and playback controls to find places where the music changes, then add notes at those points. In a folder that allows class notes, they can read one another's notes and return to those passages together.

Ask Listening Guy

Students can ask Listening Guy about a musical term or a passage they have noticed, then return to the recording and their notes to consider its response. Listening Guy does not receive the recording or its waveforms, so students need to listen to check its descriptions.

Listen Together

In a live session, an instructor can lead playback while students listen on their own devices. Students can also open a recording from a class folder and listen independently without using their daily allowance for splitting recordings.