Month: October, 2008

Music as Language Learning

31 October, 2008 (10:47) | Music Lessons

Music Education, is it equivalent to Language Education? I’ve spent the last several years improving my Spanish and studying languages is somewhat of a hobby of mine (yes… yet another…) I’ve studied Spanish, French and German now although currently my Spanish is by far the best. But what similarities are there between [...]

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Mathemetician Solves Hard Days Night Intro Chord…

30 October, 2008 (14:18) | Site Info

Just had to put this up for any guitar player that’s struggled to get “just” the right sound out of the first chord of the Beatles Hard Day’s Night… A Math professor has cracked the puzzle and found out that it wasn’t JUST the 12 string guitar from George Harrison… Read a bit [...]

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Music Software to Transpose a Score

30 October, 2008 (12:08) | Software

I recently had a student ask for a suggestion for software to take a piece of music and transpose it. The suggestion that I’ve run across is Finale’s Printmusic. It’s $99 and has a demo version. It allows the scanning of music and then you can transpose to other keys. It’s [...]

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White Horse Black Mountain

28 October, 2008 (10:48) | Asheville area

A new music venue is opening this weekend out in Black Mountain - White Horse Black Mountain (website). Here’s how they describe themselves:
A UNIQUE * MUSIC-BASED * MULTI-USE FACILITY IN THE WESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
Here’s they’re opening night info:
NOV. 1st 7 pm OPENING NIGHT!
LARRY KEEL AND NATURAL BRIDGE
www.larrykeel.com
call (828) 669-2502 or email whitehorseblackmountain@gmail.com [...]

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Zoom H2 mini-review

24 October, 2008 (13:56) | Audio Recording

I don’t see devices like the Zoom H2 replacing standard studio recording. Not by a longshot. In fact, the main goal of the H2 is simple stereo recording. There are no multitracking features. It’s possible to bypass the internal microphones, but the input IS a 1/8th inch mike input and a [...]

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Zoom H2 introduction

17 October, 2008 (13:47) | Audio Recording

Recently I had the good fortune of being asked for a recommendation of what microphone to buy for an organization. I had previously set up a cheap desktop pc microphone and audacity for a cd project they wanted to do. (They didn’t have the money at the time for anything else.) Their [...]

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Paul McCartney’s Ecce cor Meum to be Performed by Asheville Choral Society

8 October, 2008 (10:12) | Asheville area

I’m posting a bit early this week to get out word that the Asheville Choral Society will be performing Paul McCartney’s Ecce cor Meum (Behold my Heart) on Sunday October 12th at Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville. The performance will be at 4PM and tickets start at $40. This is only the third [...]

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Lull in posts

3 October, 2008 (13:42) | Site Info

The recent lull in posts has been primarily because there have been a number of other issues I’ve had to attend to.
I hope to be back to a regular schedule posting, but as usual other events could prevent me from keeping such a regular schedule at times. Sorry for the lack of posts, but [...]

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