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The 4 Best iPad Apps That Can Make You A Better Musician
We’ve posted the best iPad apps for musicians before but now, lets take a closer look at the best apps to help musicians learn a musican skill or develop their pre-existing skills. Here are the 4 best apps to make you a better musician: Karajan was featured on our list of the 5 best iPhone apps for musicicans a few months ago and now that there’s an iPad version of the app it may be the best mobile learning tool for music. The app provides lessons for learning to recognize intervals, chords, scales, pitch and tempo where you can either click the right answer or play it on a simulated piano or guitar thanks to the Multi-Touch screen. Now musicians can train their ear and work on their piano/guitar skills virtually anywhere. Practice makes perfect and with a built-in headphone jack you can do your roommate a favor by not forcing them to hear you work your way to perfection. Price: $9.99 Price: Free Piano Man is Guitar Hero for pianists without the fickle virtual crowd. Price: Free
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Teaching Music « iPad and Technology in Music Education
The app that will help teachers love creating Unit Plans and creating reports for their Administration! It is that time of the year that teachers everywhere (In the US at least) are heavy into the planning of this school years curriculum that will excite, motivate and push students to achieve new heights! Of course one goal of using technology as a teacher should be to make our life simpler and more effective. So I of course use my iPad and Laptop to try to make Lesson Planning as effective as possible. The State of Michigan, as well as the US Government, is demanding more and more reporting from us teachers every year. That means I really need to be able to create reports for my principals in an effortless manner – IF I WANT TO CONTINUE TO LOVE TEACHING! Enter two apps…. DayBook Pro is an app that is not the easiest to figure out the full potential of though, in fact I have complemented the developers several times on having an app that had great potential but was seriously lacking!
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
by Toby W. Rush This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy! These pages are available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. This collection is a work in progress, but if you would prefer, you can download all the current pages as a single PDF. If this makes you excited enough that you'd like to purchase a theory-related shirt, hat, bag, button or sticker, visit my T-shirts And Other Stuff page. Music Theory Fundamentals Notation: PitchHow pitch — the "highness" or "lowness" of a sound — is notated on the musical staff. Notation: RhythmOur bizarre (yet universally accepted) method of notating rhythm. Analyzing & Writing IntervalsStill confused?
GarageBand
GarageBand is a software application for OS X and iOS that allows users to create music or podcasts. It is developed by Apple Inc. as a part of the iLife software package on OS X. Features[edit] Audio recording[edit] GarageBand is a streamlined digital audio workstation (DAW) and music sequencer that can record and play back multiple tracks of audio. Virtual software instruments[edit] GarageBand includes a large selection of realistic, sampled instruments and software modeled synthesizers. Guitar features[edit] In addition to the standard tracks, Garageband allows for guitar-specific tracks that can use a variety of simulated amplifiers, stomp boxes, and effects processors. MIDI editing[edit] Music lessons[edit] A new feature included with GarageBand '09 and later is the ability to download pre-recorded music lessons from GarageBand's Lesson Store for guitar and piano. Additional audio loops[edit] Jam Packs[edit] Jam Packs are Apple’s official add-ons for GarageBand. MainStage 2[edit]
55 Great Websites To Download Free Sound Effects
Imagine a movie or video without sound effects. Even a magnificent film like Titanic would look nothing more than a joke if there are no ‘Wham’, ‘Bam’ and ‘Smash’ sounds in it. Background music and sound effects are important for making a video (or even an audio production) engaging and in its full essence. There are thousands of online resources to download sound effects. However, not all of them can offer you high-quality material that’s also free. So, in this post, I am listing 40+ cool websites to download just about any type of sound effect for free. Read also: Free-Loops.com This platform offers more than seven thousand CC-licensed sounds and loops, which are divided into categories like drum loops, synth loops, midi files, etc. Sign-up/Log-in: Not Required SoundBible A superb site for downloading sounds, SoundBible, offers royalty-free sound effects that you can use commercially in movies, games, and other projects. Fugue Not required ZapSplat Freesound License: Creative Commons SampleSwap
