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Mathematical Impressions: Making Music with a Möbius Strip From Quanta (Find original story here). The connections between mathematics and music are many. For example, the differential equations of vibrating strings and surfaces help us understand harmonics and tuning systems, rhythm analysis tells us the ways a measure can be divided into beats, and the study of symmetry relates to the translations in time and pitch that occur in a fugue or canon. This video explores a less well-known connection. Major and minor piano chords Piano chords, or any chord for that matter, are formed by combining two or more scale tones (notes). You now know the tones (notes) that comprise all 12 major scales and you can play these scales smoothly (not necessarily quickly…yet!). It is now time to apply this knowledge and begin combining the scale tones to form chords.
25 of the Best Music Sites and Blogs for Discovering New Artists and Musicians and Streaming Free Music Your guide to discovering new beats that put you ahead of the game making personal playlists. In today’s music industry, there’s a lot to keep up with, and as much as we love them, Pandora, Spotify and your personal iTunes on shuffle just can’t do it all. That said, we pulled together a list of 25 of our favorite music sites, our go-to sources for finding new tunes, streaming our favorite mixes and above all, staying ahead on our playlists. Just keep in mind that if you’re tempted to spend half your day perusing new music, don’t blame it on us. A New Band A Day
websites Compiled by Suzanne Schmidt 2008 Revised and annotated by Melissa Cox 2009 AP Readers’ Favorite Music Theory Websites! General AP Music Theory Examination and Course Information Syncopations Preface DefinitionA syncopation can best be defined as - the prolongation of a note attacked on an Off-beat to the next Beat. It is usually anticipated (attacked sooner) , but we have left a section open at the end, for cases where it is retarded (attacked later). Anticipated Syncopations
Free Jazz Guitar Lessons on Chords and Soloing by Tony Oreshko Section 2 - Jazz Soloing Lesson 1 - ArpeggiosLesson 2 - Using Arpeggios in a BluesLesson 3 - Using Arpeggios over Minor ChordsLesson 4 - Diminished 7th Arpeggios Lesson 5 - Diminished 7th Arpeggios over Dominant Chords Lesson 6 - Arpeggios over a Minor Blues Lesson 7 - Lower Auxiliary Notes Lesson 8 - Upper Auxiliary Notes NEW! - Jazz Guitar Books and CDs Browse our new online store. The Shape of Music Zaha Hadid/Swarovski Crystal Palace Collection Roughly 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras observed that objects, such as the anvils he purportedly studied, produced harmonious sounds while vibrating at frequencies in simple whole-number ratios. More complex ratios gave rise to more dissonant sounds, which indicated that human beings were unconsciously sensitive to mathematical relationships inherent in nature. By showing that the world could be described mathematically, Pythagoras not only provided an important inspiration for physics, but he also discovered a particular affinity between mathematics and music—one that Gottfried Leibniz was to invoke centuries later when he described music as the “unknowing exercise of our mathematical faculties.” For a thousand years, Western musicians have endeavored to satisfy two fundamental constraints in their compositions. The first is that melodies should, in general, move by short distances.
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Audio Converter, CDA to MP3 Ripper, Convert FLAC to MP3 There are many audio formats that can be used for storing music, audio books, lectures, and other recordings in digital. Quite often there is a need to convert audio from one format to another. For example, your portable recorder produces sound as WAV, and you want it in MP3. Or you get some album in APE and intend to reduce file size greatly by converting APE to OGG Vorbis. Pick of the best of a dazzling array of internet radio stations I was recently told about an old tape of Orson Welles exploding with fury during the recording of an advert. I tried to find it online. It took less than a minute. The near infinite resources of the web are a godsend - but sometimes all that choice can leave you paralysed.
Revenge of the Smart Playlist: 5 tricks for packrats & power users The success of yesterday's post on the basics of Smart Playlists makes me think you might enjoy seeing a few more. So, today I want to show you how to get control of a very large iTunes library -- to save space by getting rid of stuff you're not enjoying or listening to, as well as bubble up stuff you may not even realize you like. If you are an iTunes packrat but feel overwhelmed by your collection (or are simply running out of drive space), try these recipes for Smart Playlists to help you get it together. Step 0: Backup Before doing anything too fancy with your iTunes (or with anything else for that matter), always do a backup. This could be as simple as dragging your library to an external drive, although personally I'd recommend a smarter tool -- I recommend rsync for geeks, and ChronoSync for civilians.
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Exoplanet Puzzle Cracked by Jazz Musicians When astronomers dropped the news that nearby star TRAPPIST-1 was circled by seven planets about the size of Earth — all of which could conceivably be studied by upcoming observatories, three or more of which could have lakes and oceans on their surfaces — most of the headlines were focused on the prospect of scouring these worlds for life. Daniel Tamayo noticed something else. The clockwork of the TRAPPIST-1 system is the most complex case yet of what astrophysicists call a resonant chain, where the “years” of each orbiting body relate to one another as simple ratios. For every eight times the innermost world races through its day-and-a-half-long orbit, the next planet goes around roughly five times, the next one after that orbits three times, and the next one two times.