Guides
There are many ways to learn about microtonal music, and luckily there are many resources available!
Overviews
Overviews contain general discussions about microtonal music, including essays, questions and answers, etc. This is a good place if you don't know where to start!
- Making Microtonal Music is Easier Than You’d Think: Comprehensive 9000-word tutorial with many images. The article explains xen; from what it even is, to linking resources (including ones on this wiki), to explaining how to make microtonal music in five methods of increasing complexity and cost. Goes from free and easy to more complicated and costing hundreds (or thousands) of dollars/pounds/euros:
- Using a free browser-based synth
- Using free VST plug-ins
- Changing the settings in the program Kontakt / Micro-tuning synths in Reaktor
- Removing the frets on a guitar
- Buying a microtonal-fretted guitar.
- List of approaches to musical tuning: Musical tuning can be approached in many different ways, and this article gives a good overview of these approaches.
- ... and many more in Category:Overview.
Articles
Guides that provide basic (and sometimes advanced) information on various topics, aimed at readers who are not yet familiar with these topics.
- Dave Keenan & Douglas Blumeyer's guide to RTT (D&D's guide): An extensive 9-part guide to regular temperament theory with many examples and visuals by Dave Keenan and Douglas Blumeyer.
- Mike's lectures on regular temperament theory: A series of lessons on regular temperament theory by Mike Battaglia.
- Creating Scala scl files for rank two temperaments: A tutorial for musicians not yet familiar with the Scala software who wish to create tuning files for use with electronic instruments or DAWs.
- Finale Microtonal Accidentals and Playback: How to easily start writing microtonal music today! Customize Finale for microtonal display and output.
- ... and many more in Category:Guides.
Videos
- Learn about Microtonal Music: A YouTube playlist curated by Sevish with over 400 videos from various content creators.
Podcasts
- MMMday06: A single-day podcast project hosted by Prent Rodgers in 2006.
- Now and Xen: A podcast about xenharmonic and microtonal music and discussion created by Stephen Weigel and Sevish in 2018, currently hosted by Stephen Weigel as of 2023.
- Xendergarten: A comedy podcast hosted by Userminusone since 2023.
See also
- MicroPedagogyCollective — pedagogy-related projects
- Pedagogy questions
- The Library — a list of periodicals, papers, dissertations and books about microtonal music