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Month: January 2021

How I Designed A Free Music Font For 5 Million Musicians

Posted on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 By ericdano No Comments on How I Designed A Free Music Font For 5 Million Musicians

This is a fascinating video on how they made the new Leland notation font and Edwin text font for Musescore 3.6. Hopefully there is going to be forthcoming support for Finale to use these.

As an original buyer of the “Jazz Font” before it was bought MakeMusic and bundled with Finale, I have tried several music fonts over the years. There is a thicker version of the jazz font called “Swing Font” made by the creator of the jazz font, Adobe used to make a font called Sonata font (for my PRE-Finale time when I used Encore on a music SE/30), there was Ash Font, man…….I probably still have the floppy discs for most if not all of these.

For the last 12+ years, I adopted using Finale’s Maestro font in conjunction with the late Bill Duncan’s Jazz Articulations font. Why? I kinda think the “Jazzfont” is over used, and just looks bad. It is the comic sans of music.

Anyhow, it this video is a great history lesson of how Score (I never used it) shaped and still shapes the notation industry, and how much care and thought goes in to creating a really nice font.

FYI, Musescore looks great. If you are getting sick of Sibelius and it’s yearly fees, Musescore really has been getting better every version.

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Steely Dan 1993

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 By ericdano No Comments on Steely Dan 1993

This is a great concert to watch if you want to see how jazz fits into pop music. Features a young Chris Potter, Bob Sheppard, Cornelius Bumpus, Peter Erskine, and a little known but bad ass Drew Zingg.

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Saxophone Academy Is Launched

Posted on January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 By ericdano No Comments on Saxophone Academy Is Launched

YouTuber Dr. Wally Wallace has launched a fantastic online Saxophone learning program. FOR FREE.

Seriously, new stuff each month, good videos, a Jazz Etude, exercise PDF for tone quality, technique, listening assignments, and more.

Highly recommended. The Saxophone Academy (link to the courses is in the YouTube video description)

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Sheet Of The Week – Ophelia (Lumineers)

Posted on January 6, 2021December 14, 2021 By ericdano No Comments on Sheet Of The Week – Ophelia (Lumineers)

Great little number by the Lumineers

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  Ophelia by the Lumineers for Bb Instruments (87.5 KiB, 11 hits)
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