From PDF to MDF: Making a guitar body routing template Part 1 | My notes (no more, no less) One of the questions that I have been asked a couple of times is “Where can I find a guitar body plan and how do I make that into a router template”? This series of posts will outline how I do it. It definitely isn’t the only way. It may not be the best way. The first challenge is finding a good accurate plan. Most plans are available in PDF format, and that is what I’ll be talking about primarily, but occasionally you’ll find a plan in DXF format (AutoCAD’s interchange format). Download and install Inkscape, a free vector drawing program. The first decision to make is what orientation of paper would best fit the plan. In Inkscape, to change the document orientation, you choose File -> Document Properties (or Shift-Ctrl-D). Next we’re going to import the PDF plan into Inkscape. Now we could just print off the plan just as it is, but to help align the sheets as they’re stuck together I like to overlay the plan with a pattern of diagonal lines. To draw the lines; Additional resources
CAGED Guitar System: How To Make The Most Of It Howard Klepper: About my guitars "Howard, that will surely end up in a famous musical instrument museum one day .... What a cool guitar!" ---Dan Erlewine Every guitar I build is a one-of-a-kind, custom instrument. It is common for custom builders to make guitars in batches of several guitars at a time. There is a lot that is out of the ordinary about my designs and construction methods. ^ top of page Tonewoods At present I build with tops of Swiss European spruce (picea abies or picea excelsa--the names are interchangeable), Adirondack red spruce (picea rubens), or western red cedar (thuja plicata). While the top wood is much more important to the tone of a guitar than the wood used for the back and sides, these parts do make an audible difference. There is a tendency when people talk about guitar woods to refer to the tone of this or that wood, or of a particular wood combination. A word about tonewood grading: The last few years have seen a lot of "grade inflation" in the tonewoods business. ^ top of page Bracing
Using Beatles Songs to Demonstrate Modulation Concepts - College Music Symposium Introduction Many teachers of music theory are intrigued by the idea of including popular music as an addition to the traditional music already taught in theory classes. Music familiar to students offers the opportunity to demonstrate a connection between academic material and music the student has already internalized. Educational theorists have long touted the idea, originally proposed by Lev Vygotsky (1987) and elaborated upon by many others, of scaffolding: working from what the student already knows toward unfamiliar material. The teacher must, however, ensure that the music presented, if not approaching the level of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, at least demonstrates an acceptable level of musicianship. Another hurdle in the use of popular music for instruction is inexperience of professors with the idiom. The Music Four Beatles songs can serve as examples for elements of music theory traditionally taught using classical music or contrived material. Secondary Dominants: “Her Majesty”
Overview of learning styles Many people recognize that each person prefers different learning styles and techniques. Learning styles group common ways that people learn. Everyone has a mix of learning styles. Some people may find that they have a dominant style of learning, with far less use of the other styles. Others may find that they use different styles in different circumstances. There is no right mix. Using multiple learning styles and �multiple intelligences� for learning is a relatively new approach. By recognizing and understanding your own learning styles, you can use techniques better suited to you. The Seven Learning Styles Visual (spatial):You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding. Why Learning Styles? Your learning styles have more influence than you may realize. Research shows us that each learning style uses different parts of the brain. For example: Visual: The occipital lobes at the back of the brain manage the visual sense. Where to next?
CAGED system Hi, I started to make this lesson for myself and I wish to share it with others who have feeling to being "stuck" on somewhere on guitar learning process. I could describe my state of learning as an dude middle in forest and have not a friggin' idea where to go next. During my wandering I found the thing called CAGED system. Aight lets get to the point. Lets see, Here you see C A G E and D major chords, study root notes of those chords (you can use this site chord tool for that if you have hard time figure them) and study the shapes of them. Now, cause of my poor picture handling as you see above, I couldnt get the picture where we must put those chord shapes partly over earlier chord shape. I think it would be too cool, if we someday get a tool for it? Aight, how to practise? Minor and seventh chords are the different story, bear that in mind. So I hope this helps you even realize more, if not... then... not. Cheers!
A Justly-Tuned Guitar David Canright This article first appeared in 1/1, the Journal of the Just Intonation Network, Volume 2, Number 2, p.8 (1986). Contents Introduction Several years ago, I decided I needed a versatile instrument to play music using pure harmonies. My classical guitar seemed a natural choice to modify to play in Just Intonation, for several reasons: I like the sound of the instrument, it is portable and relatively easy to play, and it is capable of both melodies and harmonies. Choice Of Frets One of the guitars with interchangeable fingerboards created by Tom Stone (belonging to Jonathan Glasier) had greatly impressed me with its versatility and ease of use. Some guitars have partial frets across only certain strings, staggered with other partial frets across others, to give the desired scale in a particular tuning. Ideally, any desired tone should be available on any string, but practically there is a limit to how close the frets can get and still be playable. Playing The Thing Conclusions
Modes Med Subs Four Musicarta Modes - Mediant Substitution This Module applies the mediant substitution technique to the Aeolian four-chord set in D Aeolian minor. Download up-to-date MIDI files for this page. In D Aeolian minor, the chords are D minor, C, B¨ and A minor. Here are all the inversions of the module chords shown on keyboards. Here’s a riff on these four chords with no mediant substitution at all. This is the chord sequence. The right hand chords are shown as triads with inversion symbols. Here is an MS sketch of the riff with the broken chord BMT analysis. Look out for the anticipation. The right hand strays a long way down into the between-the-staves leger lines. When you can find the chords without any trouble, study the BMT analysis as you listen, and copy the riff audio. The riff with mediant substitution Now start treating some of the chords with mediant substitution. Here’s one possibility. Errata: the C chord in bar 3 is not substituted. Now apply mediant substitution everywhere you can.
Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100 The List of 100 is a powerful technique you can use to generate ideas, clarify your thoughts, uncover hidden problems or get solutions to any specific questions you’re interested in. The technique is very simple in principle: state your issue or question in the top of a blank sheet of paper and come up with a list of one hundred answers or solutions about it. “100 Ways to Generate Income”, “100 Ways to be More Creative” or “100 Ways to Improve my Relationships” are some examples. “One hundred entries? Bear with me: it’s exactly this exaggeration that makes the technique powerful. When starting your list you may believe that there’s no way to get it done. Unlike the related Idea Quota tool — whose primary goal is to acquire the habit of coming up with ideas — the goal of a List of 100 is to take your mind by surprise. Ground Rules There are only two simple principles to keep in mind when making Lists of 100: 1. This is the one crucial element for the technique to work. 2. 1. 2. 3.
General concepts General Concepts Frequency, Octave, and Wavelength Frequency (f) is the number of cycles that the periodic signal completes in one second. The unit of the frequency is Hz (Hertz). The pure tone or the sine wave has a single frequency. Sound and noise usually are not pure tones. Depending on Fourier transform (the complex signal can be synthesized from sine signals - or pure tones - of different frequencies, different amplitudes and different time delays or phases) the sound signal represents pure tones with defined amplitudes (or intensities). Wave of pure tone has frequency therefore it must has what is called wavelength which is the distance the sound travels in one cycle time. Sound Levels and Decibel The definitions of sound levels and decibel are related to the amplitude of the signal. Note that the decibel values of sounds can not be added to obtain the value of the resulting sound. Copyright © For professional acoustical/lighting consultation, please visit