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README.md

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 Instructional material for the [Music Information Retrieval Workshop](https://ccrma.stanford.edu/workshops/music-information-retrieval-mir) at CCRMA, Stanford University, 2014.
 
 
-How to Use this Repo
+How to Use This Repo
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 This repo contains a bunch of IPython notebooks related to music information retrieval.
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 ### Install Git
 
-If you don't have Git, [download Git here](http://git-scm.com), and install it on your local machine.
+Git is a version control system. You will use Git to retrieve the latest version of our IPython notebooks and to track changes that you make to these notebooks.
 
-Clone this repo onto your local machine:
+1.  If you don't have Git, [download Git here](http://git-scm.com), and install it on your local machine.
+
+2.  Clone this repo onto your local machine:
 
         macbook:~$ git clone https://github.com/stevetjoa/stanford-mir