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Guitar Tutorials Rocket Up iTunes Podcast Charts: Chord books and music lessons still sell, but for visual learners, the best option is probably the video tutorial. … of the top 20 podcasts offered by...
View ArticleKlankBeeld Raaphorst: Like a child
I like this moody klankbeeld by Marco Raaphorst. KlankBeeld Raaphorst: Like a child Friday, 16 May 2008 Ik heb mijzelf een opdracht gegeven: elke vrijdag een nieuwe compositie op basis van een foto ter...
View Articleaudio response to Marco’s klankbeeld
I plugged in the electric, hooked up Audacity, hit record, and flipped over to the same image that Marco used for his like a child piece. It’s a quickie job but what the hell that’s what blogs are for:...
View Articlemarketing songs the lazy way
I have added some new formats for my song Frog in the Well. For people making videos, I created cuts of 20 seconds, 30 seconds, and 40 seconds. I have noticed that the length of a piece of music is a...
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songsterr has a stellar guitar tablature UI. Finding a counterexample of truly awful written music on the web is a depressingly easy job, but Mel Bay is as rock bottom as anybody: Read em and cringe.
View ArticleMagnetic Fields guitar tablature
Stephen Merritt of The Magnetic Fields publishes guitar tablature with lyrics and chords for his songs. This kind of thing was almost non-existent in the days when CDs and vinyl records were synonymous...
View Articlebirth of the gamestrument
Embed: No embed: http://innerpartysystem.shuffl.es/dontstop?r=63 That is fucking wondrous. First of all, the impact of in-browser-music-making is not trivial or obvious. You can’t be blase about it....
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