I've found a free online course you might be interested in called Critical Listening for Studio Production.  It's by the University of Belfast and started a couple of days ago but that's nothing.  It seems really relevant to what we do.
 
https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/critical-listening-for-studio-production
 
Apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place but the Sonar X forum is my home!
 
Have fun!

Thanks for the link.  Last year I attended to 4 musical related courses at Coursera.org for free.  In february, I'm enrolled in "Fundamentals of Audio and Music Engineering: Part 1 Musical Sound & Electronic": https://www.coursera.org/course/audiomusicengpart1 
 

awesome - thanks!

Thanks!

I took the electronic music production course through Coursera last year and enjoyed it a lot. Learned a lot too. Its professor was from the Berklee College of Music. It may have been free but it was more in-depth than I thought it would ever have been.

MIT has a large catalogue of courses available for free, but no college credit is earned, and you have to buy your own texts.
 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-380-music-and-technology-recording-techniques-and-audio-production-spring-2012/
 
 

It's weird that i do fine on the quizes...except for the ones that use marimba

dubdisciple
It's weird that i do fine on the quizes...except for the ones that use marimba

Wow, I'm so glad you said that - me too!
 
But I've also run into lots of trouble on the very last quizes where you have to identify a narrow band of frequencies removed from a sample.  Just shows how much training my ears need I guess.  Did you get all the way to the end?

Thanks for pointing this out!

SGodfrey

dubdisciple
It's weird that i do fine on the quizes...except for the ones that use marimba

Wow, I'm so glad you said that - me too!
 
But I've also run into lots of trouble on the very last quizes where you have to identify a narrow band of frequencies removed from a sample.  Just shows how much training my ears need I guess.  Did you get all the way to the end?

I stopped halfway through the quizzes, but will resume today.  It was a humbling experience.  I know I don't have perfect pitch recognition, but I am usually good at relative pitch.  Great example of how timbre can affect pitch perception.