Hello, and welcome back to another GCSE revision video now within this lesson I want to go over the infamous aos in language paper 2 now you might have come across assessment objectives In fact, if you're currently near 11, hopefully you have come across assessment objectives, right? You've probably done a round of mocks in year 10 and year 11 and perhaps you've seen your teachers feedback, right? You've seen okay great a01 but very weak a06 for instance, and maybe you've looked at it and it's looking like hieroglyphics Okay, I need to improve on a06 but I literally don't know what a06 is and then you've looked perhaps at the mark scheme for a Aqa and it's still kind of you know the mentioning words like select and synthesize these massive massive words And you're like okay. I've read the mark scheme. I still don't understand what these aos mean So what I want to do is to definitively show you the meaning of each of these aos and the reason why you need to Understand these assessment objectives is because they are the aim of the game Okay, if you are striving for that grade five six seven eight and of course nine You need to know what my examiner is looking for okay when I'm answering all five questions within language paper two I might ensuring that I'm consistently hitting all of these assessment objectives So that can be getting that grade seven eight and nine in my final GCSE is okay so I'm going to do is show you in very simple English what the different aos are and Which questions they correspond to so that you can once and for all know Okay, when I'm now practicing going forward a different past paper question language paper two I now know what I'm supposed to be including and most importantly if I also get mocked feedback from my teachers And they say I need to improve on my A02. I know exactly what I need to do Okay, so let's go over the different aos now You're going to see that I've put a one a two a three a five and a six These are the different assessment objectives that you are tested on in language paper two section eight test your a one A02 and a03 this is the two extracts you read and then write Responses for in questions one to four and then section B Which is where you're giving your statement where you argue for against the statement it test your a five and a six Let's begin by going over a one assessment objective one now remember for this assessment objective This is tested in question number one Which is a multiple choice question and question number two which is the summary where you've got a look at Source a source B then you summarize are the similarities and differences and simply a one simply means are you able to find? explicit obvious Information that's said in the sources for instance if it tells you can you you know how does the writer describe? Sweets or even look at lines one to six and describe how the writer sees her expensive sleeplessness, right? You then just find quotations or information that literally where the writer says I find sleeplessness really difficult If you mentioned that that's a one, okay? It's a very obvious explicit information also a one is it's testing your ability to find Implicit information in other words, especially for question number two Are you able to talk about the indirect messages that the writers in both source a and source B are trying to convey to you? Is there any kind of hint any tonality a sense of optimism a sense of pessimism? That's implied in between the lines as opposed to explicit words really in your face The writer says I'll find it hard to sleep. Okay, the writer finds it really hard to sleep in source a what's the writing source B? Finds it really easy to sleep. That's explicit information However, when you're thinking about the tonality, right when you're thinking about the writer Are they writing sarcastically because you're picking up on those nuances? That is what we call implicit information That's really really important to convey in question number two, which is your summary question and also a one Test your ability to compare text from different eras, okay? Of course remember in question in paper two You are always given the modern text and your Victorian text and question number two Which is a summary question after your multiple choice question in number one Test your ability to when you look at, you know, are the similarities or differences between source a and source B? Are you able to compare? Okay? That's a one. Let's talk about now a oh two, okay? This is to do with do you have an understanding of relevant subject terminology and a oh two is actually tested in Question three, which is the language question? What is simply test is are you able to distinguish the difference between language techniques? I eat illiteration similes metaphors and so on versus structure beginning middle and end Sentence types right flashback flash forward and are you also able to ensure that you don't mention structure for the language? Question remember also a oh two is tested in language paper one question number two, okay? So are you able to talk about language identify the right terminology? But also mention its effects on the reader. This is tested in question number three then now Let's look at a oh three. This is the final assessment objective That's tested in question number four, which is the writer's viewpoints and perspectives question So what is a oh three test specifically? Okay? Now firstly you need to demonstrate your understanding and your ability to compare two different sources Depending whether you're supposed to talk about writers viewpoints and similarities or rather writer viewpoints and perspectives Are they similar? Are they different? Okay? You need to make sure if you ask to talk about similarities You only talk about similarities if you talk to if you're asked to talk about differences You only do that if you fail to do that you're now not hitting a oh three a oh three also means Are you able and this is really really important? Are you able when you look at both source a and source being question number four to find any? Interesting patterns because remember that in language paper to especially for question number four the insets you're given they always very similar Thematically therefore if you're able to understand the overall theme Are you also able as you're reading through both texts to find any interesting patterns again when I go over? Especially this question in my masterclass on Sundays I teach all of my students were part of that group class how to find those interesting patterns and then comment on it very clearly in Question number four because this satisfies a oh three, okay? And of course are you able to finally include an observation of both language and structure which is terminology? That's a one a oh two and a three which is tested in Section a questions one two four So now hopefully when you get marked feedback from your teacher and your teacher saying improve a oh two now You're clear on okay. That means in question number three. I'm not using enough language or I'm using the wrong Techniques, I need to work on that right if you're asked to improve a oh one, okay? Are you able to find explicit and implicit information and so on? Let's now talk about the final two a ohs which is tested in section B for language paper to this is the argument question Okay, you're given a statement to what extent do you agree? Do you disagree? You've got a right an article letter or newspaper now a oh five tests the following and you need to be super super Confident with all of these skills. Okay, either if you ask write a letter article speech You need to show firstly an awareness of form for instance Are you able to follow the correct format? You need to know how to lay out an article as opposed to a letter or a speech if you're not clear literally I've done a Whole number of shorts as well as videos in the past showing how to lay out an article in the seven easy steps How to lay out a letter and I think it's maybe five easy steps and also how to lay out your speech Watch those if you're not clear because that's really really significant and important also A oh five tests your ability to argue in other words Can you discuss the statement that you are given? Okay, and to show that you kind of have some sort of informed ideas about the issue that you ask to express Of course, you also need to debate in or in addition to expressing your opinion Okay, you're given the statement you see you show whether you're for or against that statement You also need to show counter arguments why people would disagree with this with your belief Okay, and of course you include things like anecdotes. You're made up statistics and examples and finally Register this is just a fancy way of saying are you able to write formally? You don't use any abbreviations that are unnecessary. You don't use informal language You just make sure that you write formally Regardless of whether it's an article letter or a speech. Okay, and the final a oh six Which is tested in question number five is firstly, are you able to display a vast and wide range of ambitious words and vocabulary Okay, and of course the second thing that's really important in a oh six is your spag points What does spag mean spag is simply spelling punctuation and grammar So that's really I want to come to it assessment objectives And remember it's really important to know about your assessment objectives because that's literally the aim of the game Okay, when you're finally eventually sitting your GCSEs your language paper to GCSEs in June You need to be able to be hitting all those different aos. Okay. Thanks so much for listening and I hope this helped


In this game it was bad enough that the Ravens just got absolutely beat down and you could tell their confidence was hurt, their hearts were hurt, but now the lineman, the player, Patrick McCary, he actually got hurt in this game. Let's read the report from Ian Rappaport as if we haven't lost enough already. Patrick McCary suffered a high ankle sprain yesterday, source said he's seeking more feedback and the team is assessing its options heading into the bye week, but another injury on the O line. So, get clarity on Patrick McCary and we see that it's a high ankle sprain and those are not good because they can take a while, they can linger, it's not usually an okay, let me take off a week or let me take off a couple of weeks and I'll be fine, those things usually take some time. Jeff Zribick, he said they take several weeks to heal so Ravens will likely be forced to turn to their third starting right tackle this season. McCary was one of the bright spots too. And yeah, that's true because the original starting right tackle was Alejandro Villanueva, the next right tackle was Patrick McCary and then yesterday they brought out Tyree Phillips to start a right tackle for the Ravens. And again, we're making another video on another significant injury that the Ravens face this year. Now y'all know me that with Patrick McCary, I was somebody that was very worried about him going to right tackle. I was scared, I felt like he was too short, I felt like his arms were too small. I'm like man, I don't know about that one y'all. I really don't. But he went over there and he looked like he'd been playing right tackle for a minute. He had been holding it down and he had been going up against some really, really good talent too. And of course, the talent was going to get that much better as the season went along. But now Patrick McCary, he's going to be out for the foreseeable future. How long will that be? No clue. But you got to think that the Ravens will end up putting him on a short term IR. They did just sign James Carpenter. So we'll see if that has this this offensive line has been shuffled like crazy. They've been shuffled man. Because they just going through it. They going through it and they've struggled all year. So now it's going to be another offensive line getting together another group having a jail together. So that makes it that much tougher. This bi week, I mean Ravens do have this bi week to sort some things out to sort of just step back for a minute. You just got beat down. So this bi week is coming at the right time. And I mean, either way, if we would have won the game yesterday, we would have still said it's coming at the right time. We would have went into the bi week six and one. But after the beat down later is definitely coming at the right time. Because you got beat down and now you can sort of lay low for a little bit, try to get out the spotlight for a little bit and fix some at least try to fix some issues that you have. But this creates another problem for the Ravens. Another problem because of injuries. Now, they did have Brandon Knight, but of course, we know the story with that Brandon Knight was in and then Brandon Knight was out. They claimed them and he's somebody that could play tackle. But they claimed them. And he said no, he said he was dealing with his mental health stuff. So he said he was going to step away from football this year. So that's that that because that could have possibly been somebody that they tried to right tackle. I'm not sure how good or bad he was at tackle. I don't know anything about his game. I'm naive to it. But that could have been another option. But it's look like it's going to be Tyree Phillips. It's going to be the Tyree Phillips show. So the thing about Tyree Phillips is that yesterday he got thrown into the mix. But next week will yeah, in two weeks against the Vikings, it'll be I would expect a better showing from him reason being because I expect him to be the starting right tackle moving forward. But I would expect a better showing from him because he will have known that he'll be the starter. So we'll see what goes down with that. Davis sharp. I'm not sure if he's an offensive tackle or if he's a guard or if he's a swing or even somebody that could just play some different positions. I'm not sure exactly what he is. But that's another option. They called him up for yesterday's game. Wish I wish he could have played defense. Oh, this offensive line, man. This has been something that we've been talking about offensive line for the past couple of years. And even before these injuries, it was still probably the biggest question mark on this team. This year, even going into this year, it was a big question mark. Yeah, they had signed Kevin Zitler. That was true. Then they signed Alejandro Villanueva at the last second. Ronnie Stanley was coming back from injury. We were hoping that there will be no setbacks with him. As far as left guard, we were wondering who was going to win that spot. Then it ended up being a mix of Tyree Phillips. Tyree Phillips was the first left guard. Remember, in the Raiders game, he was the original left guard. And then it was been powers and then it was been Cleveland. Then they kept doing a little rotating thing. And I just didn't understand that. Then Senna, we had questions. All right, how's Bradley Bowsman going to do as a Senna? How is he going to do making that move from guard back to his original position at Senna, which he played before at Bama? So then that right guard again, Zitler, and then of course Alejandro. So we just were wondering, and especially one of the biggest questions going into the season, not even a preseason, but the season was how are these guys going to jail? Because they haven't, because first in the preseason, for the first, what was it, three weeks of the preseason. So for the first two weeks, the whole offensive line, they had never played together. They practiced together, but they hadn't played together. So then in what was scared, what scared me personally, I know scare some other people too. And I was like, it is just one series though. It was just one series. But the very first time that they had all played together, the very first time was in preseason week three. It's all the starters. They played one drive together. That was unfortunately the drive where JK Dobbins got hurt. And I believe it was Bradley Bozeman that missed the block, but it happened. Can't just put it on one person. It happened. It was just an unfortunate circumstance. But on that drive, the first drive that they played together against the Washington football team, I believe, they were allowing all this pressure to get through. And I was like, hold up. There's no Chase Young. He's on the sideline taking pictures. There is no Montez sweat. The Washington football team, they didn't have their starters out there.  And I was like, I don't know if that's more testament to their backups, because their backups are so nice.  So that was something that was worrisome going into the regular season. And it proved to be true. The offensive line was just, it was rough. It was very rough. Man. And you know what's sad? It's sad having seen, because I think we saw, I believe we saw Gus Edwards get his carries in preseason. I'm pretty sure. And he looked good. And then of course, we saw J.K. Diamond. But man, just thinking I think they could have made better out of offensive line than what we have now. And a lot of that is just because they're familiar with the offensive line. They're a lot more familiar, obviously than the guys that we have now. But anyway, that's beside the point. The offensive line, it needed work. And we knew this going into the season. We knew this before the season. We knew this going into the season. And during the season, we, it's evident. So now with the injuries, again, Stanley gone for the year, Ben Cleveland, he's out, Bradley Bozeman, this bi-week is good for him. Because again, yesterday they said he had a bad back. So if he had a bad back yesterday, I was saying this in the postgame thoughts video that was his back to the point where he, not 100% Bradley Bozeman is better than a 100% Cologne Castillo. And shout out to Bradley Bozeman because he's been good. We haven't had, have we had one bad snap this year? I don't think so. And we remember last year. I mean, yeah. But that's something I was thinking about. Like with his back, was it to where, obviously he played through it, but was it to where he would be better? He would have been a better option than Cologne Castillo. Or, but that's just something to think about. But anyway, the offensive line has been, it's been rough this year. So now we got another blow to the offensive line. And it's like with the Ravens, I know a lot of people been like, oh yeah, trade for O-line, trade for O-line, trade for O-line. But it's like, I don't know, what position are you going to trade for? Like right now you could trade for a right tackle. But I mean, left tackle been struggling too. Like Ali Hondadot, like yeah, he filled in and he back to his natural position left tackle for Ronnie Stanley, since he been out. But it's been up and down like that, man. It's been up and down. Now I think somebody made a really good suggestion about the offensive line, because you know, Ravens, they've been more past happy recently. So with the offensive line, that doesn't really give them a chance to be too physical. Like when you don't run the ball and you can't run the ball, that doesn't give you O-line a chance to be your O-line. Because if you're running the ball, then the offensive line and they can go running defenders and go knock them down. But when you're passing heavy, then audit, they just got to sit there and protect. They got to wait for guys to come at them. So that makes it that much harder. So that's just something to keep in mind as the Ravens move forward this season. Will they possibly incorporate the run a bit more now to do that, to be successful at it? It takes the offensive line. It takes the right running backs too. So I know the name Marlon Mack has been floating around Ravens fans for the longest. They've been talking about them before the Colts game. They've been talking about them after the Colts game. They be like, oh, we should get Marlon Mack. It's given to us Colts. So and then the Colts, they put them on display in that Ravens game. They're like, see, he can run. Come on. Give us your best shot. Give us your best draft pick. But anyway, shout out to Patrick McCartney, man. I hope that this thing has some crazy healing to it. It only takes a couple of days. Oh, I'm good now, y'all. Y'all ain't got to put me on short term. All right, y'all, I'm straight. Because he has certainly, throughout his career, the way his career got started, he was an undrafted rookie free agent from, I want to say Texas or is it Utah? I forgot where it was, but undrafted rookie free agent. And this guy, I believe he, what position did he play? Because I know he had to come in and fill in for Matt Scurra at that Rams game. And they said that he had never played center before. So maybe he was a guard or maybe he was a tag. I forget. But he had never played center before. And he came in and it was like Matt Scurra was still there. It was like he was still it. Because I remember when Matt Scurra went down in that Rams game one night, football, I was scared. I'm like, oh boy, here we go. Aaron Donald and then been quiet, but now, oh boy, he about to get loud. Nope. And Patrick McCartney, the rest of the way, man. He did his thing. Now in the Titans game, he was getting a little bullied in there, but overall he had a really good season filling in, especially when he wasn't expected to start, wasn't expected to really even play like that. But he filled in and he did his job. And then last year, he was sort of a Ravens, what y'all need me to do? Because y'all have some injuries, been some shuffling on the offensive line. What you need me to do? Oh, you need me to play guard? Okay, cool. You need to play left guard, right guard? What? I got you.  Okay, cool. I got you. And then this year, it was the same thing. Oh, you need me to play guard, play left guard, right guard? Okay, I'm cool. Oh, you need me to play taggle? Oh, okay, cool. All right, I got y'all. I got y'all. I'ma give him my best. I'ma give it a shot. I got you. And he's been playing excellent, but now he's out. So we'll see how the Ravens respond. And just, man, it's like, why all these injuries, man? And I remember the injury too, because initially it didn't look bad. Initially the injury didn't look bad. When it was live, it didn't look bad. But then somebody, I forgot, I think it was a bingo player or whatever. It didn't look malicious or anything, but he like pushed, he pushed somebody back. I don't know if it was, he put somebody back and then that's when it looked like it got worse. Maybe it was McCarty. But it is what it is. Anyway, Team Keep It Clean, appreciate y'all. I guess this video just turned to more of a vent session. I mean, that's what it's been a lot, a lot, a lot with this, all the injuries and stuff. And especially coming off a beat down like we took yesterday, it's been a lot of venting. And this week, y'all just let it all out. So Team Keep It Clean, I appreciate y'all. I love y'all. And just like Patrick McCarty is going to be for a while, I'm out.


Hey I'm Brandon from Roland, we're here at CES 2020 and we have a large new presence here and a lot of cool things so let's go have a look. What's happening here? So this is a demonstration of our Roland Cloud so we have as you'll see we have many many virtual instruments so these are a lot of our classic instruments that were influential in a lot of modern music that we know today so the TB-303 which was instrumental in genres like acid house the 808 which we all know the the boom of a lot of modern music that comes from that 909 another influential drum machine Juno 106 so these are basically virtual instruments that you can get in a basically of 1995 a month subscription you get all the new instruments that are coming and you know these are authentic circuit modeled reproductions of our classic instruments. How can you use those? Are you actually using those in construction with your yeah so they can be in a in any digital audio workstation you can run them on a computer laptop desktop and then we have all kinds of controller keyboards and things that you can play from you know things like knobs that are on this 88 Mart 2 which is a brand new MIDI controller we've just announced these knobs will control these these instruments on screen so you can essentially do a whole live performance with a rack you know wall of instruments but these are all in the computer and you can use them in real time absolutely real-time access yeah yeah real time having the original machine so you can hear so that's a 909 303 going you know so that's five or six or so virtual instruments that are all running and they're you know really really detailed models of all of our classic Roland instruments throughout you know 80s 90s 70s this is one of the booths you have around here yeah so we actually do a performance here where we have multiple players so that that person is playing virtual instruments this station here when we'll look on the other side in a second is the the some more live performance instruments we just came out with this is the MC 707 groove box so this is like a standalone production and performance device you have eight tracks of drum machines and synthesizers and you can perform on the pads and using the faders and the knobs so you can write a whole piece of music on this and then this is the Jupiter XM so this is a the compact version of our new Jupiter X line this kind of has all of Roland's history really in one box there's like 40 years of synthesis in this thing so vintage analog style stuff vintage digital stuff and then new sounds you can combine things together basically five synthesizers stacked on top of each other cool thing that's in here is this thing called this I arpeggio which uses kind of machine learning to predict to look at how you're playing and to predict how you're playing and we'll actually adjust the complexity of arpeggios and things based on how based on how you play so that's pretty cool and it's all made of metal and has that vintage Jupiter look so and you have a bigger Jupiter X which if you want to walk right around here it looks really cool yeah so this is this is brand new and so this actually isn't out until probably March or April so this is a full-size version of the Jupiter X nice you know the big kind of vintage 66 61 key brand new keyboard so it's a brand new action that we that we make that's available in 61 and 76 key and yes it's got you know lit up mod wheels a little display over here but a lot of this stuff can be done from the action is not like a real cannon oh it's not a synth action but it's a semi-weight synth synth action so a heavier than your typical fully unweighted and it's a really excellent probably for me one of the best synth action what's happening with all these LEDs so these are these are kind of telling you the status of things so this is this could be used to change sounds but it could also be used to pick a model so if I want to make it a Jupiter or a Juno which is another classic synthesizer JXSH you know these are all sought after synthesizers you can switch the model depending on when you're in this model bank mode it can also load scenes which is a whole configuration with effects and everything and you can be all ready for a live performance or something so I'm hearing some some some drums yeah so things happening sir this is our our dear friend Michael Shaq who is a legendary and on YouTube in drum demonstrations everywhere but he does a lot more than drum he's triggering video and controlling tempo and all kinds of instruments and it's a really intricate intricate thing so I'll set up one minute okay well maybe we'll roll back in a minute or can you give us a little a little flurry a little nice how good other Roland electric drums is the best the best why do you ask how good they are there's no competition no competition they're not here yeah competition and doesn't touch this can't touch this well we have this mesh head technology and the way our symbols work and everything is really gives you the feel of I have a TD4 congratulations it still works correct yeah of course that's that's it you have a drum set you hit on it all the time it keeps on working okay there's only 30 seconds left okay I'm gonna check it out yeah well we'll go 20 seconds of this before it starts yeah yeah so this is a looping device we actually have a guy doing beatboxing and so we got five channels of looping and he can sing in and create drum parts and bass parts and I would demonstrate but I am I am no beatboxer beatbox but that's really amazing and those guys actually play together so up here is all of these are synced together so they play a performance together and do a bunch of you get probably millions and millions of views on people filming these demos at CES yep yep it's gonna be huge yep it's been next few months people are pretty incredible and you know mixing beatboxing with drumming with synthesis and you know groove boxes is pretty cool so come this way yeah this is the same machine like before this is the so we have the the bigger one the RC505 and then over here there is a smaller one the RC202 which is like a two channel basically tabletop looping real simple to use volume here can record and play and you can just overdub as many times you want so that plus some talent it's boss that's right that's boss which is also part of Roland and then this is an interesting thing so this is called the go livecast so if you're a person who in this case this scenarios is a person doing a makeup youtuber but it could be could be a performer instrumentalist you can plug your mic or your your mixer into here and then basically you just plug this into a tablet or phone over Wi-Fi you can use another camera so you can have a two camera system just with this little box no computer necessary and then you can do things like applause you can put titles overlays you can play video content so it's a video mixer essentially exactly so any content that the phone has access to you can you can overlay so one person can do a multi-camera angle high production value broadcast to you know Facebook and also flip it like normal video exactly yeah this is like weird yeah yeah this would be all portrait mode but yeah right switch everything the lens or you can do a combination of landscape and portrait if you want to so how many channels you say to so two to video channels and you can you can of course determine where they go or turn them off to video channels and then any amount of audio or video content based upon just what you have on the on the phone so it makes a super easy computerless you know setup for for broadcasting high quality and you know the XLR jack here allows you to really plug in a nice you know really nice microphone or or a feed from let's say a mixer can't use a USB microphone yeah you can I don't think no you can't use a USB microphone I think you can use one of the microphones on one of the tablets I believe one microphone so you have a here we just got an XLR connection that's really sure it works but there's two inputs here as for headphones so one of these connects to one of these will connect to power so you need some five volt power one of them connects to the first device and the second one is remote so this could be a handheld you know could be walking around with it but as long as it has Wi-Fi connection it's good okay here in a second but just quickly this is called Zen beats and this is a cross-platform so Mac PC Android and iOS music production system so you can you know write drum patterns and keyboard patterns and things anywhere you are on a phone or tablet or you can also hook it up to something like the System 8 here which is a Roland synthesizer that can also mimic a lot of our classic so this is a new launch for the CES yes that's right so this was a used to be something called stage light which is now Roland Zen beats and then we released 1.1 here at the show which gives us direct integration with the 88 mark 2 controller we looked at at the beginning so we can come back here quickly but I wanted to talk about the piano so this is a really interesting this is a concept piano called the facet piano and this was essentially a design competition Roland wanted to kind of challenge the design world to say well what could the piano be and let's break out of the traditional mold of pianos and so this was a this was a design winner from South Korea and it was built by our team in Hamamatsu and uses all the latest technologies so that is a car yeah so it has multiple speakers down here in here up there there's even speaker and projection built in so the sound will project from this so it's designed to project like an acoustic piano but also it can have actual visual projection as well and it has a tablet built in here to the where the music stand would be so the user can call up songs it also has voice control through Alexa and yeah uses all of our state-of-the-art technologies I'm afraid to touch but it's that one in the world yeah it's only one but it is fully playable in fact so there's no price on it no price no and no plan to actually have this piano particularly as it stands available however you know this will kind of inform similar to how concept cars work some of this stuff may trickle into production price sell it yeah yeah people want it we've actually a lot of people ask about it so yeah and hopefully it'll be cheaper than what you call those Lamborghini or yeah yeah it's yeah unknown at this time but we hope that some of this stuff will become Steinway yeah yeah yes yeah maybe maybe maybe they're becoming but you know more practical is it practical I don't know but it certainly looks great you know so so maybe we can get back to that guy yeah let's go back over and we'll talk with Matthew he's busy all the time there right we'll break him away yeah gonna jump in here maybe and this is just as we're waiting this is a go piano kind of for you know people starting or they want a lot of capability and a small affordable instrument there's that and as you're seeing here again is is Zen beats and kind of a keyboard view but you know also on Android devices and iOS devices you can share the same the song and move from one to the other which is pretty amazing to be able to work on a phone but then also move over to computers yeah I'm going to pass you over to my yeah on the mic right there look back to your beard to my beard perfect right there you got audio we good so it has been the CES CES has been fantastic it's amazing getting to show people that there is a sleeping musician in everyone and anyone can make a beat regardless of your previous music history or no musical history do you yourself make music sir yeah so I try to use there's Cubase there's there's a bunch but they're a bit difficult to use well they are and they're all fantastic applications but they're aimed at full on professional use their colleges that teach you how to use these apps even able to live able to live another fantastic gap but once again aimed at professionals I want to show you guys how anyone can make music with just their index finger let's get into it so this is Zenbeats it's as I think Brian may have mentioned it is cross-platform and it's free to download on any device whatever device you've got in your pocket chances are you can go get it from the Google Play Store or the App Store let's get into how it works now if you're brand new to music and you want to just dive right in we've got in-app lessons that cover all the basics from you know making music using the loop browser building a beat from scratch the lessons will walk you through the process since I'm here let's just go ahead and dive right in let's start a brand-new song I'm gonna hit a new song button from the home screen that's gonna give me my drum grid and my on-screen instruments these are as many tracks as you want we how many what and you're kind of unlimited all up it's I'll show you so when you start a new song you've got a drum machine we've got a touch device you can record and tap out of it let's say you're not even there yet you haven't practiced it's not your thing just hit the play button and you can go to all your sounds and you can easily enable a kick drum you can also swipe and make music with gestures got the basis of a beat going let's add some stuff to spice it up cool now I've got this beat going and this is in our app mode called loop builder loop builder is all about being free and creating ideas this drum loop is going to play forever and let's say explicitly press stop let's move on and add some more stuff so you can add unlimited tracks and ten beats we have audio tracks instrument tracks drum tracks like we're on now and some mixing tracks like sends track templates and song parts if you want to grow your song out let's start with audio tracks with audio tracks and ten beats you can record your own audio from a microphone being so or plug in your guitar or bass I don't have a guitar bass and you don't want to hear me sing so we're gonna go with the next thing you can do which is import audio touch here you'll get your loop browser your loop browser has access to thousands of loops organized by type 808 bass drums let's just layer another drum beat here I can browse audition and if I like it just drag and drop it boom the next type of track we have our instruments Zen beats comes with eight keyboard based instruments including a very versatile synth and sampler now if you're on Mac PC or iOS you also have access to external plugins thank VST 2 3 and audio units let's mix this stuff with some internals and beat sounds I'm gonna pick my favorite instrument sample verse sample verse is a synth and a sampler combined without going too heavy on him you can touch the record button here and you can actually multi-sample any instrument guitar bass or violin and play it on your keys I've got a basic synth loaded here now obviously I'm playing a nice keyboard you don't need one you can bring one up here and play on screen this could be a new Android phone right now it says on it just can't be on your Android phone right now now when playing on a phone it can be difficult to hit the keys on a touchscreen or if you're like me I play guitar I don't play keys we have a nice feature called key lock you can pick your key pick your mode no mistakes another cool thing about this is MPE that's a very geeky term but let me show you what it means that means multi-polyphonic expression you're used to doing pitch bending like this on a keyboard with MPE it's per finger pitch and other effects like filtering let's record something done recording loop it and go so what I've done here is I've just created the first part of the song these are loops these are song parts you can think of song parts like an intro a verse a chorus a bridge you name it you can have unlimited tracks and Zen beats and unlimited song parts so you can put as many ideas you have together and then trigger and play them on the fly you can play individually or entire columns like so if I want to start adding a new song part I can just start dragging and dropping or recording like so easy as that now in addition to making music with loops we also have a linear mode what happens if you make an entire song in loop mode but you change your mind you want to maybe get it in linear mode let me show you I'm going to open up a basic template here it's got some song parts on already I'm going to touch my record button and I'm going to go to record a timeline this allows you to remix all your loops on the fly and multi-track them in the background we'll start with just this little hi-hat here bring in some bass now let's drop in the hit let's bring this whole column everything is being multi-tracked in the background and switch the timeline and there's your multi-track sequence all this can run on the phone yes all of it all of it so everything I essentially showed you is on it's the same software on the iPhone Android iPad Chromebook now let's say okay we've got something we want to save it when you save in Zenbeats you can save on your device you can save to Google Drive or OneDrive two of the most popular connected clouds accounts after you save it maybe you know maybe this is something I made on my phone and maybe now I now want to transfer it to my PC or my Mac we also have built-in transfer functions so if your devices are online you can wirelessly send anything you've done on your phone to your tablet or your PC the Wi-Fi here is very slow so it took a little time but yeah I can see my iOS device there I hit select transfer and it sends all your content over to your other devices so you can start a beat on your phone finish it out on your PC or maybe you started really good idea on your PC but you got to go send it to your phone and work on it while you're on the road that is Zenbeats you can get it today on the iOS app store Google Play or the Mac available at Roland dot com how much thank you for the mobile version start at $14.99 the desktop versions are $49.99 and we also have an in-app store you can buy individual loot packs based on every genre and subgenre you can hope for real Roland sounds like the classic 808 TR707 TR909 and more all these are individually sold for $4 a pack now if you're the type of cat that wants to get everything all-in-one also offer the ultimate unlock which will give you a Zenbeats unlock on Mac Windows Android iOS even Chromebooks that support Android apps and also give you all of our content in the in-app store today and you can input any keyboard that's MIDI or yes so as far as hardware we support any hardware your device supports so if you have a USB sound card you want to use hook it up choose it in the settings and go as you see here I'm using a Roland System 8 as my audio device from my PC right now it's just like a MIDI controller yep or you go to your mini and set a MIDI controller or any audio device we work we work with everything what can you output to a MIDI also I'm sorry can you output to me you can you can output MIDI you can export patterns as MIDI and also let's say you're want to collaborate with someone who's using a full professional DAW like Pro Tools or logic the share button will also allow you to create stems of anything you're doing in one touch you can do full uncompressed wave a lossless flak or AUG it'll render every track as its own way so you drag and drop it into any full fledged TW of your choice all the sounds from Roland all available tons of sounds from Roland if you're on them the Mac or Windows version as I mentioned we also support VST plugins which I highly recommend everyone to check out Roland Cloud all of their entire legacy is right here down to XV5080 down to the Jupiters the Juno 106 is the D50s all the best recreations of these instruments and software forms you have to subscribe to those separately those are the separate subscriptions Zenbeats is its own thing that pricing is for a one-time license fee for Zenbeats once again 1499 on iOS or Android 4999 on Windows or back so here's an iPad Pro yeah so there's something that I heard about the iOS devices having less lag than Android is a true note but it obviously depends on the device but overall iOS they they definitely they can't have better audio than some Android devices we're using a Google Pixel here that has very good touch latency it's the same like an iPhone I'd have to abm side-by-side to see I use n beats on a Samsung myself and it works fantastic too and you say chrome so that means every Chromebook because the Android every Chromebook that supports Android apps there are still some older legacy Chromebooks that don't have Android app support and that we can't work on but anything that does have the Google Play store on you can download it and same thing all right is there any chance there might be a keyboard coming out with the like an Android touch screen in the middle there and supporting this directly the keyboard I don't know anything about it just the beginning right we're just we're just at the start I'm the product manager for the software that is what I focus on and we just dropped version point one this is brand new we have lots of exciting things in store please stay tuned and an iOS there's a bunch of music apps more than an Android but you are you the best this is the best system out there and I swear the best absolutely the coolest easiest to use I mean as a product manager I potentially bias but yes I think it is easy easiest app to use today and it's the only app that you can get real rolling sounds in thanks a lot all right thanks oh sorry I can get the mic she's gonna check her out over there to finish the video oh yeah yeah hold on to that it's kind of stuck it back up thanks a lot all right awesome thanks I'll give you the car just in one minute I'm just gonna go right over here sorry sorry sorry so a lot of innovation that Roland it's probably the coolest


Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning prayer. We're so glad you have joined us this morning. Like all Monday mornings, we need to just call our soul to attention like David did in Psalm 103 and Psalm 105. Bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. So David spoke to himself and this morning, maybe you need to speak to yourself. I know I did this morning. Let's just stand to attention wherever we're at here in the prayer room. Even at home in your living room, we'll get off the couch or the chair. Just by standing up, we're honoring the presence of the Lord. We're calling our physical temple to attention and to give our focus to the one who deserves it. And we say to ourselves, we're here to bless the Lord. It's our number one call and the priority of our of our whole life. Our heart is to be a blessing and to minister to the heart of the Lord. This was David's heart. And David in Psalm 132, he said this, remember, oh Lord, in David's favor, all the hardships he has endured and how he swore to the Lord and he made a vow to the mighty one of Israel. I will not enter my house or get into my bed and I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. Behold, we have heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the fields of Jaar. Let us go to his dwelling place and let us worship at his footstool. Arise, oh Lord, and go to your place of resting. You and the Ark of your might let the priests be clothed with righteousness and let your saints shout for joy for the sake of your servant David. David's heart, which I absolutely love, was when he came into power ultimately. He said, I'm making a vow before you, God. We're not going to leave the Ark which represents the presence of God. We're not going to leave that in the land of the Philistines. We're not going to leave it exposed in the fields where it was dumped. We're not even going to leave it in the caretaking of Obed Edom in his house. David said, I'm not going to stop this language of I'm not going to give up sleep to my eyes.  And so David built a tabernacle, a tent next to his home where he hired 4,000 Levites to minister before the Lord. And he would go in there and sing Psalms and 24 hours, seven days a week for 33 years in Israel. The Lord was ministered to in a prayer room and in a place where the priests gave their full attention to him. This morning you are the resting place for the presence of Lord. The Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of you.  And then when we come together, whether by broadcast or in person, we are creating a resting place for the Lord. He's looking for a people whose heart is devoted to that kind of a vow. So here we are Lord that we say with David we will give our eyes no rest. We will not crawl into our bed. We will not give sleep to our eyes until we with our heart, with our words, with our intercession, with our songs and with our prayers have created an atmosphere an environment that you can come and rest, settle upon. Lord we want you to come and rest. Arise O God of Jacob. Arise Holy One of Israel. Arise in strength. Arise in power. We don't want you to come and then go. We want you to come and bring the full weight of your rested presence, your settledness here in this moment and in this house. That's what this very room here in the heart of Kalamazoo's city center is all about. It's to build a resting place, a throne for the presence of God. So arise to your rest and be blessed today by our praise and let your glory fill this place. Let your glory fill this moment. Let it meet us, strengthen us, erase all of the hardships that have come before this moment and give us a heart devoted to ministering to you our Father as kings and priests before you.  Arise O Lord to your resting place. Spirit of the living God come now and rest upon me. Hear my thoughts, hear my prayers as I give my whole heart to you this morning. Use a mechanism and a worse word, literally to take a moment and just marinate in the revelation and truth that you've just sung or been instructed by all the violin and the keys and the musicians to just play in this Salem moment and let's meditate on what it means for him to have the preeminent first place in every area of our heart. Bless the Lord. Jesus be the center, very principality and power, every authority. Just feel like we need to take a moment, just even remind our hearts but prophetically declare it over the atmosphere of our city, who this God is that we're serving.  Ephesians one says according to the working of his great power, verse number 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named in this age and also in the one to come. He put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head of all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all and all in an era and in a time right now where there are names that are exalting themselves and there are the shifting of thrones and the battle for borders right now. We stand as the church, as the fullness of him who fills all and all and we take our rightful place of intercession in the heavenlies. We take our rightful place in the heavenly seated at the right hand of God, the Father seated at the right hand of our Lord Jesus and we say Jesus you are the rightful king.   You are seated in heavenly places and you are far above all rule, all other rule, far above all other authority, other names that can be named in this age and in the age to come. And we speak over the heavenlies of this city and we say Jesus is Lord. Jesus Christ the resurrected Son of the living God is Lord over Kalamazoo because you are Lord over this city over this region. You are Lord over this nation and we declare it to those other powers and those other authorities that would try to usurp your name and we say bow the knee to the name of Jesus. Bow the knee to the name of Jesus. Mute your tongue unless the name that you utter is the name of Jesus but we say right now no other name but the name of Jesus. No other king but the name of Jesus but the power of Jesus. In the heavenly places the kingdom of God is here. Jesus the king is here in splendor and in glory, wisdom and in dominion and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church that bears his name. Every knee bows, every tongue confesses Jesus.  You are the rightful king to the throne of David. You are the rightful king in this age and in the age to come and we declare it into the atmosphere of the city that you called us. We declare it into the atmosphere of this generation even over the nations of the earth. Let your kingdom come Lord Jesus and let your will be done. Let your church be established. Let the gospel the good news go forward unhindered in this day. Silence the spirits that reign over regions that are trying to stop and hinder your church and try to silence the gospel and pervert the gospel and cause your people to become distracted and distorted by fear. We speak right now all power, all authority, all boldness, all courage, all unity right now in the name of Jesus over your church which is the fullness of the one who fills everything with his glory. Release your authority God. Release your power, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions were created through him as we hold together and he is the head of the body of the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in him everything he might have preeminence. Lord all things were made by ultimately for delegated authority finds its authority in you Jesus. We stand as your body. We say Lord in every sphere in the heavens and in the earth in human government and in the church in the family and education in every sphere of society let you you Jesus have the preeminent place have your way it was created by you and for you endow us as the church with power from on high rooted in unity together in the place of prayer and intercession as our feet are standing on the earth let our hearts and our faith be seated in heavenly places and declare with all authority the principalities and to the powers and to the rulers the lord rebuke you free authority that does not submit to the kingdom of god and the preeminence of christ right now we say the lord rebuke you we say right now the kingdom of god is coming open up you gates over these cities and let the king of glory come in open up you ancient gates around calamazoo michigan where education has been a gate that's been locked where the arts has been a gate that's been locked where intellectualism has been a gate that's been locked where spirituality has been hijacked and locked and held at bay by the spirit of jezebel and witchcraft we right now we speak to the gates and we say open up you ancient gates open up you ancient gates and let the king of glory come on in who is this king of glory the lord strong in battle the lord jesus christ the resurrected glorified son of the living god these gates were not made for men to walk through these gates were made for entry points for the kingdom of god we say open up you gates of wealth open up you gates of arts open up you gates of business and commerce open up you gates and let the king come in michigan university be thrown open in our day we declare wmu will no longer be a concentration camp of demonic humanism and intellectualism creating priests and prophets of an antichrist spirit but we declare western michigan university has open gates from the north the south the east and the west and a mighty wind of god a move of god is about to blow across the campus a move of god the wind of god that blows out the debris and blows in a fresh new day it's no longer going to hold in hostages but it's now going to release pioneers it's no longer going to hold in the bitter waters but it's actually going to be a source from which fresh waters flow lord by the dozens and by the hundreds let students begin to encounter the living god lord we're praying for dreams and visions we're praying for spiritual encounters we're praying for a whole breed of evangelists bold courageous unashamed evangelists on the campus that preach in the courtyards that witness in the dorms that pass out tracks that lead worship and invite people in and lord all across the campus you bring confusion into the rinks of the enemy as the kingdom of god comes lord bring a move of god to wmu to kelemizu college lord just by their proximity i pray that there's a spillover of what you do in wmu into kelemizu college wash away the witchcraft wash away the political correctness that has dominated the hour and let light shine where darkness is dwell we pray lord that you would remember the prayers prayed by baptist pioneers over kelemizu college that it would propagate the gospel of jesus lord blow upon the embers of those prayers once again and let freedom ring let the gospel come like waters like floods in this valley that wash away the filth and release times of refreshing from the presence of the lord we pray over the gates of education for the presence of god for the whole world to see make it a tabernacle of david for the whole world to come and to see and as they look at the city instead of seeing the promise of a free education let the kelemizu promise be much more than even that made the kelemizu promise be that any city that will seek the lord will become a resting place for his presence we pray that over this city we pray that lord you would find a resting place here and we give you the glory and the honor the preeminent place jesus your name we pray thank you for joining us those of you who are let's continue to pray for the presence of the lord over our city we want you to come and be a part of the gideon's army the 300 people that would just make a commitment to the lord that i'm going to give my eyes no rest and i'm going to commit my life to being in the prayer room believe that my prayers in the prayer room combined with others is making a difference we're looking for 300 people who will just make that commitment i'll be part of gideon's army a prayer army to be in the prayer room to be in that place and to seek the lord morning noon and night so come and join us at noon and 6 30 p.m. tonight and all week long monday through friday in jesus name amen god bless you