Create an educational music video using open source software and Linux

I teach English to seven year olds in China. One point of English grammar that is especially difficult for a native Chinese speaker is when to use "is," "am," and "are," or when to add an "s" to verbs (example: "I like," or "he likes"). To make this easier for my students, I decided to write, sing, and put together a music video for them to watch.

I will not be doing a tutorial specific to each piece of software I used, but with rather write up a guide of sorts saying how and why I used each piece of software. I have been a long time advocate of Linux and especially open source software. I hope that my music video demonstrates that a professional(ish?) music video can be created using only open sourced software.

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Get Great Free Music at 8bitcollective - 8bc.org

8bitcollective is an online chiptune media sharing site. What is is chiptune you ask? Basically, it is Nintendo or gaming console music (Wikipedia has a more in-depth explanation). It is old school greatness! Who doesn't love listening to some Super Mario Bros every once in a while? Yes. This is music for geeks.

8bit collective is a site dedicated to people who are still creating this music and sharing it with one another. The site has thousands and thousands of free songs. Most of them are not that great, but every once in a while you will come across a song that is amazing. I suggest going to the site about once a month and checking out the "most liked" music on the right side of the home page.

Check out some of my favorite songs from the site:

8 Bit Collective

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