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The Finale School
February 20, 2008 in Articles
I use Finale for notation. True, I did buy Sibelius when they were offering that sweet upgrade price. But, honestly, I haven’t used it. I haven’t had the time to learn it. I’d rather spend it learning, oh, Logic Studio, or ProTools. I like to complain about Finale, cause I use it daily. I want it to be better. It is a great notation product.
Finale has been tagged with the perception that it is hard to learn. That might have been true back in 1999, but that is certainly not the case with the latest versions. For many versions now, MakeMusic has been making Finale much easier for a new user to use. Finale’s real strength is it’s power. You can tweak your music to your hearts content. Learning how to do this can be a long, lonely road.
Enter The Finale School. Matthew Voogt has put together a nice site that has a lot of videos showing how to do stuff in Finale 2007. While the video quality is not great (fuzzy when you blow it up), the content is straight forward and easy to follow. You can learn a lot of new Finale things by watching a few of the videos. Check it out.
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New Metronome/Tuner From Seventh String
October 7, 2007 in News
Seventh String software, which makes the excellent Transcribe software, has released two free programs (java applications). A Metronome and a Tuner. Nifty!
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Record Companies Finally Win One
October 5, 2007 in News
After all the lawsuits they have started, they finally won one.
In a major win for record companies seeking to establish precedent for prosecuting those who trade copyrighted material on the Internet, a federal jury awarded six firms $222,000 in damages from a Minnesota woman who shared music online. Jammie Thomas, 30, was ordered to pay $9,250 for each of 24 songs that were part of the case. The complaint alleged that she had shared 1,702 copyright-violating songs online. The Associated Press quotes Richard Gabriel, lead attorney for the music companies: “This does send a message, I hope, that downloading and distributing our recordings is not OK.”
What does this mean? Good question…….
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Interactive Video Tutorials
September 10, 2007 in Articles
Sometimes, you need to get help with stuff. Mostly, it seems nowadays people need help with tech stuff. Finale, Sibelius, Protools, Digital Performer, etc. What if you could, for a small fee, have access to an expert guiding you through these and other programs? You can. HowAudio.Com offers a growing number of online tutorials. They have a woodwind section, a Protools section, a Digital Performer section, and more. There are some samples that you can view to get a taste of what the tutorials are like. $19.99 a month for all of the tutorials. Interesting stuff!
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50 Things To Do With Your iPod
January 8, 2006 in Articles
Kottke.org has posted 50 Things to do with your iPod. A great list of, almost 50 things there. He missed How to get Google Maps on your iPod, plus there is a ton of Podcasts out there. I’ll be adding a section of Jazz/Sax related Podcasts soon.
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Podcasting
May 25, 2005 in News
Two days ago Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced that iTunes 4.9 will include integrated podcast support. The update will let users browse and download podcasts. This is big news.
What? You haven’t heard of Podcasting? It perhaps is the death of internet “radio”. It perhaps is the latest, greatest way to promote your band or tunes. Whatever it is, it’s going to be big. Podcastingnews is one sight that keeps track of what if going on. Another site, iPodder.org has a list of feeds one can get Podcasts for, including some Jazz ones.
What do you think? Is this going to be something of a hit? On demand content that is organized? Could you imagine subscribing to a Podcast from say KCSM and being able to download what they are playing? There are a lot of possibilities and issues to consider….
Update: 06/05 05:37 GMT by E :Here are some more Podcasting Sites:
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Auto-Discover Free Music With Indy
April 20, 2005 in Articles
Found this via Slashdot:
Indy is a free p2p music download system, which is a new way for independent musicians to find their listerners. From Buzzsonic News, "Indy uses collaborative filtering, a system similar to that used by Amazon to recommend books, etc, to prospective buyers, to learn about your musical preferences in relation to other Indy users.
Will the RIAA go after them. Probably.
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Saxquest.com
January 16, 2005 in Articles
johnnyq writes “I was searching the web a while ago trying to find places to try out horns in the area or a site online I could order from. I found this site www.saxquest.com it seems like its a reliable site but I wanted to know if anyone has used this site or heard of it as being reliable. Thanks a lot.”
I do not think I personally have bought anything from them. That being said, I have heard of them. If you are going to purchase a horn, I would definitely call and talk with them. Another place to get horns is from Woodwind and Brasswind.
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MP3.COM Content to be Erased
November 21, 2003 in Articles
From this article: “Vivendi Universal recently sold the MP3.com domain to c|net, and instead of selling its archive, containing more than a million songs by 250,000 artists, the company will simply delete the content. Mike Robertson, founder and former CEO of MP3.com is currently pleading with Vivendi and CNET to allow archive.org to mirror the contents. Since many of these artists won’t be able to come up with alternate hosting in that timeframe, and many of them won’t even know it’s happening, what Robertson calls “the largest collection of digital works ever assembled” will cease to exist.”
Personally, CNet.com sucks. Their editors half the time don’t really know what the hell they are talking about. Their site is an Ad sponsered hype zone” where they talk about things people are “paying” them to talk about. I hope all these artists are able to get their stuff off MP3.com.
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More Transcriptions
June 29, 2003 in Sheet Music
jazguy64 writes “This is my first post, but I’ve been checking out this site for a couple of years. Anyway I just wanted to share my transcriptions with your members. I try and put up at least 1 new transcription a week sometimes more. No particular artist, just whoever I’m listening too that week. All solos are PDF’s and were originally done on Finale 2002. OK enough with the details. Check them out, enjoy the website.
www.charlesmcneal.com
Thanks…Charles”
Some good solos there. Thanks for the link!
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Microphones Reviewed (With Sax Sounds)
February 27, 2003 in Articles
In my never ending quest for information on microphones, and recording, I came across this site which has some great clips. It’s German, but the guys did a nice job with playing the same thing into a bunch of different mics. They however seemed to like the Russian mics (which I’ve never heard of) over even Nuemann mics. The Mics I was interested in hearing, the AKG 414 and Rode NTK, are on the page and sound great. Anyone else have any good sites for comparison of mics and sound clips?
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Wayne Shorter Bio & Solo Transcriptions
August 16, 2002 in Sheet Music
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Real Book and PDFs
August 4, 2002 in Articles
Once upon a time, someone decided to compile the “definitive” real book. This idea has grown into an industry, featuring nearly 20 volumes of books with songs that musicians should know.
Once upon a time, a website was created in the hopes to compile a huge digital real book.
The two dreams clashed, reminiscent to the fight scene in Braveheart, and thus, one dream was crushed.
However, the idea lives on. Wouldn’t be cool if one dream was embraced by the other? Imagine being able to take a Tablet PC to a gig and have every tune imaginable?
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Schoenbergize That Webpage
July 18, 2002 in Articles
The WebPlayer is a Shockwave app that turns a web page into music by converting the HTML into numbers and then running that through formulas developed by Arnold Schoenberg, who came to be known as the inventory of atonalism in music, and influential in serialism, which aims to produce music by controlling aspects of the music with number series. Don’t expect Beethoven, but sometimes the output is nice.
The Google front page produced a pretty soothing bit of background sound the first time I tried it. However, the program does vary in how it generates the music. So, you won’t get the same results twice.
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