# Thoughts on the course **URL:** \ **Category:** Live streams, discussion, etc\ **Created:** [7 April 2020 15:49 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/thoughts-on-the-course/235 "2020-04-07T15:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
**Author:** ![yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/user_avatar/uzu.lurk.org/yaxu/32/2_2.png) [@yaxu](https://uzu.lurk.org/u/yaxu)\ **Post date:** [8 May 2020 18:30 UTC](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/thoughts-on-the-course/235/21 "2020-05-08T18:30:24Z")
Hello [@cycle0](https://uzu.lurk.org/groups/cycle0)! Welcome to a fresh influx of Tidal club members! Let me know if you have any questions or concerns, and if you have problems installing, there's a [section for that](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk).. We'll get you sorted! There's two new lessons up today, in the form of a random function marathon: > [@Week 4 lesson 2 - random marathon: rand, irand, mininotation randomness, scramble, shuffle, choose + more](https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/week-4-lesson-2-random-marathon-rand-irand-mininotation-randomness-scramble-shuffle-choose-more/685): > > Continuing from our [look at waveforms including random ones](https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/week-4-lesson-1-continuous-patterns-sine-square-tri-saw-and-random-functions/608), here's the first of a two-parter looking at a wide range of random functions.. Starting with a bit of armchair philosophising about the nature of randomness in algorithmic music. I made these videos before the worksheet. I've decided that I should really do this the other way around, for a more organised video, so might reshoot it at some point. As ever, let me know what you think! I think I go through things a bit too fast, and at th… > [@Week 4, lesson 3 - random marathon part 2: randcat, stripe, degrade, sometimes, someCycles, randslice + more](https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/week-4-lesson-3-random-marathon-part-2-randcat-stripe-degrade-sometimes-somecycles-randslice-more/690): > > Continuing on from [part one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk) of the random marathon.. [[[TidalCycles] - more randomness - randcat, stripe, degrade, sometimes, someCycles, randslice + more] ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk)[0:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk&t=8s) - randcat - picking patterns from a list [3:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk&t=231s) - wrandcat - picking patterns from a list, with different probabilities/weightings [6:35](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk&t=395s) - stripe - patterns of random lengths, fitting together into a particular number of cycles [9:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk&t=566s) - degrade - randomly drop events 50% of the time [10:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMWkKTjsRk&t=612s) - degradeBy - randomly drop events … I'm behind on doing live streams, so lets fit two in this weekend ! - 09:30 BST, Sat 9 May: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yty49cdy3KQ&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yty49cdy3KQ&feature=youtu.be) - 21:00 BST, Sun 10 May: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ0oVYYDtEc&feature=youtu.be](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ0oVYYDtEc&feature=youtu.be) For the first one, I'll attempt [tidalclub challenge #2](https://club.tidalcycles.org/t/challenge-slicing-speech/617). I'm not 100% sure about the second one - ideas welcome! We can do some q+a during both of them. That's it for now ! --- _[View the full topic](https://uzu.lurk.org/t/thoughts-on-the-course/235)._