47 Sites Every Recording Musician Should Visit In a recent “Open Mic” we asked you, “Which music-related sites do you visit regularly?” This article is a summary of the great suggestions given in the comments to that article. You can make the list even longer by commenting on this article. As you’re reading this article, Audiotuts+ needs no introduction. Several commenters mentioned Audiotuts+ - thanks for the support! This is a great Flash site with many resources to help you learn music theory. The site content is split up as follows: Lessons, including topics that cover notation, chords and scalesTrainers, that teach you notes, keys, intervals, triads, keyboard, guitar and brass. Michael comments: “I have found very helpful. This is a site that helps you with scales and chords. The charts are guitar-based, and there are options for various alternate tunings and other stringed instruments. A website that helps you learn musical scales and chords. Joe comments: “Great Ableton/sound design videos.”
Scales and emotions See also a post about making chords from scales. So maybe you want to write a song or an instrumental in a particular mood or style, and you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the scales. Here’s a handy guide to the commonly used scales in Western pop, rock, jazz, blues and so on. Click each image to play the scale right in your browser with the aQWERTYon. These scales have a major third (E in the key of C), which makes them feel happy or bright. Major scale Happy; can be majestic or sentimental when slow. Mixolydian mode Bluesy, rock; can also be exotic/modal. Lydian mode Ethereal, dreamy, futuristic. Lydian dominant mode Also known as the overtone scale or acoustic scale, because it is close to the first seven pitches in the natural overtone series. Phrygian dominant mode Exotic, Middle Eastern, Jewish. Harmonic major scale Majestic, mysterious. These scales have a flat third (E-flat in the key of C), which gives them a darker and more tragic feel. Natural minor scale (Aeolian mode) Dorian mode
MuseScore History[edit] The MuseScore.org website was created in 2008,[2] and showed great results with a spike in the number of MuseScore downloads. By December 2008, the download rate was up to 15,000 monthly downloads. Version 0.9.5 was released in August 2009, which was stable enough for daily or production use, and support for Mac OS X was added.[3] By October 2009, MuseScore had been downloaded more than 1000 times per day.[4] By the fourth quarter of 2010, the number of MuseScore daily downloads had tripled. MuseScore 1.0 was finally released in February 2011. In March 2012, MuseScore 1.2 was released.[5] This version included over 100 bug fixes, improved MusicXML importing and exporting, as well as improved support for special characters. MuseScore 2.0 is currently under development, with many new features planned. Version history[edit] There is no specific release schedule for MuseScore, but new versions are released when the developers consider them ready for release. Features[edit]
I analyzed the chords of 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found. | Blog – Hooktheory For many people, listening to music elicits such an emotional response that the idea of dredging it for statistics and structure can seem odd or even misguided. But knowing these patterns can give one a deeper more fundamental sense for how music works; for me this makes listening to music a lot more interesting. Of course, if you play an instrument or want to write songs, being aware of these things is obviously of great practical importance. In this article, we’ll look at the statistics gathered from 1300 choruses, verses, etc. of popular songs to discover the answer to a few basic questions. First we’ll look at the relative popularity of different chords based on the frequency that they appear in the chord progressions of popular music. The Database To make quantitative statements about music you need to have data; lots of it. We can use the information in the song database to answer all sorts of questions. Let’s get started. 1. 2. Don’t those chords look familiar? 3.
Akai MPK49 Pad Modification A few years ago I did a light review of the Akai MPK49 MIDI keyboard controller. Subsequently I bought one and I've been happily using it since. However one thing consistently bugged me (and everyone else) about the design - the drum "pads" are terrible. So when I saw these two threads on the Propellerhead User Forum, I knew I had to give this a try. This video is a nice guide on how to take the MPK49 apart and get access to the rubber pads. Some things to remember while taking apart your precious MIDI controller: use a manual screwdriver rather than a motorised one as in the video - take note of how much torque is required to unscrew those twenty rear-plate screws, and when you put back together again, do not tighten them up any more than that. The simple solution is to fill the gap up with something. Instead, I decided to use some cloth tape, sometimes rightly or wrongly called "duct tape", or occasionally "gaffer tape" (although mine isn't black nor has it a matte finish). Wow!
eMusic expands MP3 store with Warner agreement eMusic is a solid place to purchase and download music. They've always had a great catalog of music that is "off the beaten path," as well as recordings of live performances. Their catalog is about to get even larger: eMusic has finally reached an agreement with Warner Music and will be adding around 10,000 new albums. No, those new albums won't include current popular music - that's something which has long been a knock against eMusic. But it will mean even more bargain-priced, restriction-free music to choose from. There are two key features I've always liked about eMusic. Second, all eMusic's tracks are DRM-free.
7 Websites To Search For The Perfect Album Cover Art Tapes have given way to CDs and now CDs have given way (some if not all) to MP3 files. Then there are a huge lot of MP3 songs we download from the web or rip from music CDs. The first rule of organization says that we should neatly put them in the right folders and then tag them. There are tools for the job and some good ones at that. Going back to the job of making our music collection look neat, we come to the “˜face’ of our songs and music albums ““ the album cover or specifically, album cover art. Just like film posters, album covers deck up a song or the album it belongs to. Tools such as MP3Tag (recommended as one of the better ones in the free download category) ping online databases like Amazon, Discogs, or freedb to gather all the metadata for a music file. So, enter the album cover art engines. AllCDCovers If you put in a search for album art cover or CD cover, it’s very likely you will get this website in the search results. Albumart Albumart Exchange Album Cover Art SlothRadio