Seventh String software, which makes the excellent Transcribe software, has released two free programs (java applications). A Metronome and a Tuner. Nifty! [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

An anonymous coward writes “Hey, I wanted to ask you all if you know any site where I could download a free program for writing my music. I’ve looked in the internet and so far I haven’t found anything. Thanks, any help would be very grateful.” Free as in notation software or midi sequencing? For [Continue]

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 [Continue]

orvillethegreat writes “i was recently surfing on some websites looking at sopranos and i see that yanagisawa has come out with a new line of curved sopranos..the SC-991 and SC-992….i am interested to know if anyone has tried these yet, and how much better thay are than the old curved sopranos.” [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

Gizmokw writes “I have been looking all over the net for a lot of the Steely Dan Sax solos from their album Aja I can’t find any of the tenor solos. If anyone can help me find a pdf or gif or whatever download I would be very greatful, Thanks a bunch. -Just another Tenor [Continue]

zibalatz writes “This page has a very detailed Wayne Shorter biography and annoted transcriptions of three of his solos.” Interesting stuff. I’m glad to see Wayne on the scene after all those years he took off. [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

piazza4mvp writes “Does anybody know where I can find the Alto Sax Arr. For the Sax part in Billy Joel’s “New York State Of Mind”… I especially want to play the solo, and was wondering if there was an alternative to figuring it out, or finding a Billy Joel songbook(I don’t want to do that [Continue]

Electronic Musician Magazine has a great article, or articles, on building a studio on any budget. I really thought the $15,000 Mac Hybrid Studio was the most interesting. It incorporated a Gigasampler, lots of MOTU software and hardware. My dream system! On a related tech note, MacAddict magazine has a great little article about using [Continue]