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Ok, one more. Classic song. Danny Elfman is awesome. You need to check out Oingo Boingo sometime…..
This Is Halloween by Danny Elfman for Eb Instruments (153.6 KiB, 257 hits)
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This Is Halloween by Danny Elfman for Bb Instruments (194.0 KiB, 133 hits)
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Happy Halloween.
Thriller by Michael Jackson for Eb Instruments (105.8 KiB, 524 hits)
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Thriller by Michael Jackson for Bb Instruments (107.5 KiB, 232 hits)
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In case you haven’t noticed, I am insanely interested in Steve Jobs. This man was amazing. I really……really wanted to bump into him someday. Just to say hi. And thanks for the fish…..I mean, cool stuff. Life changing stuff. World changing stuff. iPod. Mac. iPad. iPhone. Computers that run without the need for virus protection. I could go on all day.
Steve’s sister had some amazing words and stories about him….
A Sister’s Eulogy of Steve Jobs:
Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.
By then, I lived in New York, where I was trying to write my first novel. I had a job at a small magazine in an office the size of a closet, with three other aspiring writers. When one day a lawyer called me — me, the middle-class girl from California who hassled the boss to buy us health insurance — and said his client was rich and famous and was my long-lost brother, the young editors went wild. This was 1985 and we worked at a cutting-edge literary magazine, but I’d fallen into the plot of a Dickens novel and really, we all loved those best. The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James — someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying.
Good stuff.
Digital Audio insider had an article up about Renting and Owning music. I wrote some comments on the site that basically say no, I don’t see it happening. People have been saying this since Napster was out. Heck, Rhapsody has been offering this for a long time…..streaming music. Pandora has been doing it for a few years. And now everyone is excited that Spotify (what a stupid name….as stupid as FaceBook…ugh) is in the US. Renting your music just has never taken off.
I certainly don’t see it happening now that AT&T, and Verizon have capped data usage on mobile devices. Oh, but the proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile will fix that right (Bullshit!). And they all now cap your internet usage at home (Time-Warner & U-Verse is capped at 250 gigs a month and so are others). So….that is another hurdle for streaming to contend with.
Basically, I like free things that let me FIND music I like. Like Pandora or a PodCast. I LOVE PodCasts. Single best way to find new albums or even hear great things for free.
Then I will buy that song for $0.99 and own it. No re-occuring monthly fee. It’s mine.
The Convergence of Owning Music and Renting Music:
image by TheTruthAbout via Flickr
Earlier in the week, Hypebot pointed to this eMarketer summary of two recent studies about consumer attitudes about owning music vs. renting it:
The first of the two studies was a survey conduced by Insight Research Group on behalf of eMusic that revealed the widely noted insight that 91% of those polled preferred to own music rather than subscribing to it.
There are real differences, both logistical and psychological, between owning and renting music. But I’ll bet that the preference for ownership will decrease as the listening experience for “owned” and “rented” music converges. If you’re using a website or app to listen to music on your computer or portable device, where the files are coming — your hard drive, your cloud drive, or the server of a music subscription service — doesn’t have much effect on your listening experience. And a year from now, even more people will be using Spotify, iTunes Match, Amazon’s Cloud Player, Google Music, and other services to listen to music. The more they do, the more willing they’ll be to forgo actual ownership.
(Via Digital Audio Insider)
Supposedly this was the theme song for the world series or something…..baseball? I dunno. Kinda a good tune. Didn’t do the rap section…..deal.
Written In The Stars by Tinie Tempah for Eb Instruments (61.1 KiB, 241 hits)
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Written In The Stars by Tinie Tempah for Bb Instruments (61.2 KiB, 92 hits)
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Apple’s iPod, a 6.5-ounce MP3 player the size of a deck of cards, is one of the most exciting products to come from Apple in years. Powered by FireWire, the iPod can hold as much as 5GB of data, providing a compelling balance of size and capacity. However, this combination of features comes at a relatively high price: $399.
(Via Daring Fireball)
Hard to believe, but 10 years ago today was when Apple unveiled the first iPod. It was an unusual move. Apple was known for Computers and operating systems, not music a consumer good like an MP3 player. Boy, did Apple come in and change everything. Perhaps some of you don’t remember the players before the iPod. It was by far the smallest one as I remember, but it was the one that nailed how to do things. It was fast with it’s firewire interface (USB 1 was still the de-facto standard in the PC industry), and simple with iTunes 2 as the computer to device interface.
I remember being sort of “why the heck would you want that” about it. I mean, it was kind of expensive, and I didn’t see the point of it when I could burn a CD or CD-RW of songs to listen to. Yeah…..and then I got the second generation iPod…..and that opinion of mine changed and I immediately ripped all my CDs…..which took MONTHS to do, into AAC 160 format. And I have never…..ever…..looked back.
The rap section got left out….cuz….well….it’s rap. So…yeah.
Billionaire by Bruno Mars & Travie McCoy for Eb Instruments (65.8 KiB, 466 hits)
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Billionaire by Bruno Mars & Travie McCoy for Bb Instruments (65.8 KiB, 203 hits)
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Some interesting things. I think the biggest accomplishment is making it accessible, easy, and legal. Accessible in that you can now find all sorts of music in iTunes. And sample them. And buy them easily and legally. And he (and Apple) also made music accessible by bundling GarageBand with Macs……for free. GarageBand is a great little recording program, and tutorial program for Guitar and Piano. PLUS…..there is the iPad. Which you can now take just about your whole library of sheet and audio music with you. Anywhere. And now with iCloud, you can have access to just about everything you own (up to I think 30K songs) via the internet.
Remember the Microsoft’s entry into Music? Yeah, me either…..Thanks Steve Jobs!
Top Ten reasons how Steve Jobs accomplishments have changed Music Education.:
Written by Larry Marra of musicteachers911.com I know that many of you mourn the passing of Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computers. I would like to take just a moment to reflect on how his contributions to music education have affected Music Education over the last 30 years.
Here’s what teaching music was like for me in 1976 (before computers).
1. I would write and arrange music by hand with an ink pen on staff paper.
2. I taught general music with chalk and record player.
3. I would have to wind the metronome before checking tempos
4. I created letters on a manual typewriter and used white-out instead of the delete key.
5. I carried a pocket calendar from the bank and a miniature golf pencil around for scheduling.
(Via Music Education Magic)
Steve Jobs changed a lot of things, including music. Thanks Steve!
5 Ways Steve Jobs Changed Music | Complex:
By putting the interests of artists and fans above those of executives and corporate shareholders, Steve Jobs turned the music industry power structure upside down. Every artist, producer, DJ or blogger who leverages their own creative resources and energy against all odds follows in his footsteps. #ThankYouSteve.He always told people to listen to their heart and follow what they loved. "You can't connect the dots looking forward," Jobs once said, "you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
(Via www.complex.com)
Since it is Steve Jobs day today…..Oct 16th…….here is a bonus song. A Weird Al song. I don’t think I’ve put any of my Weird Al songs up yet…..hmmm….
Complicated Song by Weird Al for Eb Instruments (112.2 KiB, 138 hits)
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Complicated Song by Weird Al for Bb Instruments (118.5 KiB, 64 hits)
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Simple song. Good song. Again….for Steve. Totally check out the Discover Special on Steve Jobs people!
Violet Hill by Cold Play for Bb Instruments (82.6 KiB, 170 hits)
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Violet Hill by Cold Play for Eb Instruments (85.2 KiB, 176 hits)
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For Steve…..(probably going to be a lot of things to Steve for a while)
Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars for Eb Instruments (97.1 KiB, 556 hits)
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Just The Way You Are by Bruno Mars for Bb Instruments (99.5 KiB, 261 hits)
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Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Edit: I think comedian Patton Oswalt said it best.
But what transpires inside the brain (and which areas are affected) during music education? How does this early stimulation & nurturing translate into better scholastic performance? These relatively simple questions continue to be the focus of intense research efforts by developmental neurobiologists.
So let’s start our first column with the 30,000 foot and cellular perspectives. Research strongly suggests that music education causes the simultaneous and continuous stimulation of many brain regions. New connections (“wiring”) between brain cells are formed. Through ongoing music education, the wiring also benefits students in other academic domains.
Which areas of the brain are “recruited” during music education? The short answer is all major regions. Let’s review how the brain is organized and how each region is engaged during music education.
This was an interesting case because ASCAP wants to charge twice essentially. I dunno. Music should be priced fairly and then you can do whatever you want with it. If you play it for an audience, then you should pay the fees associated. But ASCAP was trying to tack that fee on to downloads regardless of if it was actually played for audiences or not.
Supreme Court denies ASCAP claim downloads are performances:
The US Supreme Court late Monday rejected ASCAP’s attempt to claim that song downloads are public performances. Its verdict upheld an earlier appeal ruling without added comment. The earlier, federal-level judge pointed to basic logic for support, contending that a digital recording isn’t necessarily being played live to a wide audience just because it had been transferred over the Internet….
(Via Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks)
Another link for the same judgement here -> SCOTUS lets stand ruling that downloads are not performances
