J. Anthony Allen teaches a free copyright course for musicians that requires no special software or equipment, just good note-taking. He reviews his own notes every year and says tracking dates and terminology is the most valuable tool you'll have in the class.
Okay. You know, I always like to include this video in my classes. That's tools. The tools you're gonna need to get through this class. And I usually have to say something like, you're gonna need, you know, some audio software. You're gonna need some staff paper. You're gonna need this or that. Because I mostly teach music classes, but in this class, there's really nothing you're gonna need. You're gonna want to take notes, okay? So there's gonna be dates you're gonna need to keep track of. There's gonna be terms. So make a text file with your notes in them, or a notebook if you like, writing things down. But as much as you can, just keep some notes, you can always rewatch these classes to get more out of it. But taking notes for yourself, for key points that you need to remember will be really useful, okay? So I cannot stress that enough. Take notes. No one remembers all of this stuff the first time. I don't even remember all of this stuff every time. And I teach this, like, every year in college, so I'm actually working off my notes that are right there. So I think that's it for tools. Just take notes.
