Welcome to this introduction to TidalCycles!

If you're not familiar with what Tidal is, I have a short trailer for a class I did in the Spring of '21

Outline

1. Module 1: Basic patterns and samples:
   • What is a pattern?
   • Your first pattern in TidalCycles
   • Variation and randomness
   • Practice: trying more samples
2. Module 2: Synths, melodies, and transforming patterns
   • Using synths and choosing notes
   • Music theory and scales
   • Chords and arpeggios
   • Other synths to try
3. Module 3: Combining patterns, transforming patterns, chiptunes
   • superchip, euclidean rhythms, and modifying melodies
   • Variables and basslines
   • Transformations, continuous patterns, and a little noise
   • More transformations to try
4. Module 4: Recording and performing
   • Installing and using OBS
   • Audacity for recording sounds and editing samples
   • Loading samples into Tidal
   • Recording a performance: tips and tricks
5. Module 5: Creative use of samples
   • Pitching samples with patterns
   • Melodies from continuous patterns
   • Reversing and chopping patterns
   • Biting and chewing
   • Granular synthesis
6. Module 6: Randomness in Patterns
   • rand, irand, perlin
   • sometimes vs. someCycles
   • Advanced degradation
   • Random slicing
7. Module 7: Advanced Transformations
   • Layering transformations
   • struct and mask
   • seqPLoop
   • binary and binaryN
8. Module 8: Software synths and midi
9. Module 9: A little bit of Haskell