1.1 - How do I make lessons?
You can make lessons and become an author by
registering.
This will allow us to help you keep track of your lessons and allow us to publish
what you'd like to be public, and keep your other works private. You can then use the ActiveBass
Line Builder and
Track Builder to create musical examples,
and our
Lesson Builder authoring tool to
assemble your lesson pages. There are also other numerous benefits to membership.
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1.2 - What is ActiveBass's Lesson Builder?
The ActiveBass Lesson Builder is a Web-based wizard that allows you to easily specify the music examples and accompanying
text of your lesson pages. Inside of the Lesson Builder (and Page Builder), you can create, edit, preview, and delete
your lesson pages. For more information, check out our Visual Overview of the Lesson Builder.
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1.3 - How do I create musical examples for my lessons?
There are two kinds of music that you can include in your lessons: bass lines and tracks. Sequences are
created with the the ActiveBass
Line Builder and appear as tablature in your lessons.
Tracks are created with the ActiveBass Track Builder and appear as chord symbols in your
lessons. A lesson can contain 1 or 2 bass lines, and 1 track. You create your bass lines and tracks
separately, and then associate them with a particular lesson page using the ActiveBass
Lesson Builder authoring tool.
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1.4 - How do I change/update the musical examples or text in my lesson pages?
Each lesson that you create can be modified at any time. When you click on the name of any lesson
in your My Music, that lesson
loads into the Lesson Builder authoring tool, allowing you to change any of the text or music associated
with any page of that lesson. In addition, if you click on the 'Edit' link that is provided for each lesson
in your lesson list in My Music, you can edit the name, description, keywords, skill level, style, and published status of that
particular lesson, or delete that lesson, if you prefer.
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1.5 - Why don't I hear the piano part from my track in my lesson page?
If your lesson page contains two bass lines and a track, due to the lack of MIDI channels
available to play three simultaneous melodic parts, the piano part from the track is dropped.
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1.6 - Why don't I hear anything when I listen to a lesson page with infinite looping?
Lesson pages that contain long musical examples (especially those with tracks) with looping set
to "4 times" or "infinite" can generate a lot of MIDI data, and some browsers will not play
MIDI files that are above a certain size (100-200K). If this occurs, simply choose a low loop count in
your playback preferences and re-play the lesson page.
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1.7 - How do I make my lessons public/private?
Each lesson has a published/private flag that can be changed at any time. This flag can be
changed by going to My Music,
and clicking on the 'Edit' link that is provided for
each lesson that you've created. Any lesson that is published will be listed in the lesson directory
and will be available to any visitors to the site. Lessons that are private are viewable only by you.
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1.8 - How can I look at my unpublished lessons?
Each lesson that you create, whether public or private, can be previewed by you at any time. You can look at
any of your lessons by clicking on the (
) link associated with each lesson in My Music. Your
lesson will then appear exactly as if it were published.
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1.9 - What if my lesson doesn't match any of the listed styles?
Unfortunately, some editorial decisions had to be made concerning how lessons are categorized, and
sometimes, certain music is not so easy to classify. If this occurs, please choose the style which
seems the most appropriate, or when all else fails, simply choose "Other".
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