Kiltinou
Krik?

What makes a kompa bassline sit correctly? Why do so many people get it wrong?

Kiltinou asks
Krak!

People play it on the beat. That's the mistake. It sits just behind, dragging a little, and the drum pulls against it. If the bass and the drum agree, you've lost the whole thing…

Ti Djo Beaubrun records, 8 min 03 s

Leson 4 Kote bas la chita

Play it, then say why.
We do the rest.

You answer questions out loud, one at a time, re-recording until you're happy. Each answer becomes a lesson. There is no course builder to learn and nothing to type.

Already taught this before? Send us the syllabus, the lecture notes, the handouts. We'll build the questions from your own material, so you're reacting to your work rather than starting over.

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From question to course

Four stages, one of which is yours

  1. 1

    We write the questions

    You tell us the subject. If you've done this before, send whatever you already have and we'll draw the questions from that. Either way you get a list back to cut, add to, and reorder. That edited list is your syllabus.

  2. 2

    You record the answers

    One link, one question at a time, from a phone or a laptop. Re-record any answer as often as you like. Nobody is waiting on a call, and there is no session to schedule.

    Your part ends here
  3. 3

    We shape the lessons

    Each recording is transcribed and edited into readable prose, with draft quiz questions. Anything we were unsure about is flagged for you rather than guessed at.

  4. 4

    You approve, then it's live

    You read the draft, fix what we got wrong, and publish. Nothing reaches a student until you say so.

Kreyòl · Français · English

Teach in the language you think in

Every course is taught in one language, chosen by the scholar teaching it. We don't translate. A lesson explained in the language you reason in is a better lesson than the same one rendered into a language you merely work in.

Kreyòl ayisyen

The everyday language of Haiti, and the one most of its history was lived in.

Français

The language of the archives, the legal record, and most of the scholarship.

English

The language of much of the diaspora, and of readers coming to Haiti from outside.

For musicians

An hour of talking is a course

If you have spent years at this, you already have the course. What you don't have is a free weekend to build one. Tell us what you want to teach and we'll send back a list of questions to react to.

And if you've done this before, that work counts. Notes, recipes, set lists, syllabi, handouts you've used for years: send any of it and we'll shape the questions around what you already have. Most people find this the fastest route, because the thinking is done and only the telling is left.

Propose a topic

You keep authorship and attribution. Nothing publishes without your approval.