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What Does The Movie AUGUST RUSH Have To Do With The Current And Future Stat
2007-12-05 00:25:00 Owen Bradley posted a very thought provoking article about what he experienced as a music educator after seeing the movie August Rush . His questions and statments made me think quite a bit about the future and current state of music education and technology. So as usual?I wrote? and wrote? and wrote?. in his comment section. You know WRITING really does clarify thought! Jump on over to the Digital Music Educator?s website and his article about August Rush and JOIN the conversation today! ; &nbs p; Scroll Down To Join our Conversation and Comment! Support Mustech.net -Buy us a cup of "band director's" coffee (it's not Starbucks)! Other Great Related Articles From Mustech.net!:*Bloggers: A New Way To Get A Rush Of Blog Traffic Through Syndication Or Just Hype? *Music Advocacy; Is It Just A Waste Of Our Time? *Help Make Music Education Part Of Th... More About: Movie , Future , Current , The Movie
Christmas Comes To Grove City By Way Of The Winter Jazz Concert
2007-12-04 17:54:00 The Grove City College Jazz & Stage Ensembles will be performing their 4th Annual Christmas Concert on December 7th, at 8:00 at Grove City College. Check out our event on eventful: http://eventful.com/events/grove-city/mus ic-grove-city-college-jazz-ensemble-stage -band-4th-annual-winter-concert-/E0-001-0 06544876-7 Short Link, Click IT! or Google: http://www.google.com/calendar/events?q=g rove+city+college+jazz+concert&ql=&am p;qt=&qtd=&sa=N&page=vl&a fp=7c8f5853f9509581&cid=0 Short Link, Click IT! Do you want to know more about posting your event online using cool services and syndication options like these? Read this great article from mustech.net! View a picture of the Jazz Ensemble?s portion of the concert program (click it to expand it?a new feature I?m working on?): [Can't do this in rss visit our homepage by clicking this RSS FEED's Link] For those you within local driving distance this is a MUST BE AT EVENT!!!... More About: Winter
What Mind-boggling Web 2.0 Application Should I Try Next?
2007-12-04 01:07:00 One of the technology shifts (change of paradigms) I am championing is the emergence into a web 2.0 world from a web 1.0 world (I know some of you techies loathe this concept: web 2.0? sorry, but it really is descriptive and useful). That is, taking information from a single point of view and/or stale state, into an interactive, collaborative, and exciting state. In the old days? (say ? pre-2001), the webmaster was the almighty ?gate keeper? of knowledge. They had to post something for people to know about and if it wasn?t posted?we?ll you never knew about it. Now with informational bursting tools like RSS, blogs, wikis, and self-tagged informational items, users of web 2.0 technologies (whether they know they are using them or not) are finding themselves immersed in a matrix of connectivity, usability, and explorability (coining a new word here!). Much of this new matrix is self-directed, self-expandable, community-directed, community-expandable, ... More About: Mind , Application
Revisiting Ning, The Free Community Social Network For Anything
2007-12-01 04:56:00 The trend in informational and communication technology is very exciting at this point in time, especially if you?re in the forefront of what?s happening. I signed up for a Ning account over a year ago, but did not do much with it. At the time, I was becoming heavily involved with WordPress. I knew the time would come though, when I revisited Ning as it has so much to offer. ScreenShot: Discussing things with future PMEA District 5 president Travis Weller , we began to formulate ideas as to how we could best build an interactive site that would allow the PMEA members a place to discuss and interact with each other in a semi-private setting. After bouncing forth ideas, I suggest that we consider Ning as a possibility. It may just be the ?ticket?. Ning will allow us to create a private community that will provide the opportunity for posting notes, discussing items in forums and provide an arena to share photos, videos and other ty... More About: Social , Community , Free , Network , Social Network
The Coolest Christmas Snowglobe Flash Animation
2007-11-30 03:34:00 I remember seeing this a few years ago and it still is amazingly entertaining to me. It reminds of Little Computer People, a game from 1985 on the Commodore 64. It was originally written as an advertisement for getsomesleep.com (which I believe is now defunct). SnapShot: This animation goes on and on with the people getting into fights, the snowman eating the snowman maker, fist fights, ski jumping, and an old man yelling out the windows. If you wait long enough the old man will sleep walk into the glass and when you?ve had enough, you can just grab the globe (with your mouse) and shake it up causing all the people to fly around, screaming, and tumbling. It?s hysterical! Check it out here and get it for your desktop or sent it to friends: http://ww12.e-tractions.com/snowglobe/glo be.htm You?ll need flash to make it work. There are links that allow you to send it to a friend and you can even download it to your computer. Either way... More About: Christmas , Animation , Flash , Flash Animation , Imation
Best Music Freeware: Tab Player -Guitar Editor, Player, And More
2007-11-28 05:01:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: Tab Player Category: Freeware Guitar Tablature Editor and Player Description: A freeware title that allows you to play any text tab, create and compose tab and includes useful guitar extras. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): VISTA Teaching Ideas: This freeware title is very useful for guitarists and those wanting to learn alternative notation for guitar. It has a built in guitar chord dictionary (very useful for learning chords on the guitar), a metronome, and guitar tuner. It also searches any of the online guitar tab databases for existing songs and can play them back. Literally, you can find any text tab on the net and cut and paste it into this program and it will play it back for you. You can also compose and hear your own tunes by using this amazing freeware title. You can also register this title and receive a number of extra benefits, noneth... More About: Music
Save Money On Your Cell Phone 411 Calls, Google And Live Search 411 -No Cha
2007-11-26 09:39:00 These services are just way too cool, work well, and will save you money, so I have to tell you about them! If you are on the road with cell in hand or anywhere that you have phone service, you can dial Google 411 to have it lookup business numbers for you (sorry not residential yet!). Rather than pay your cell companies outragageous 411 charge when looking for a business or certain types of information -try Google 411. Dial 1-800-GOOG-411. I find stuff like this amazing and ultimately better for all us, maybe it will help make up for the increase in gas prices (save $.99 on a 411 call go 10 miles further down the road with the money you saved)! Microsoft also has a competing product, Live Search 411, and can be reached by dialing 1-800-CALL-411. From Google: Search for businesses by name or category. Can?t stand typing? GOOG-411 will understand your voice and find the business you?re looking for. Search by name ("Giovanni?s pizza") or category ("Pizza"). Connect to the business dir... More About: Phone , Money , Cell Phone , Save Money
More Freeware Software To Be Listed In The Upcoming Weeks
2007-11-26 01:59:00 Hello all, I trust you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend! There will be more of the ?Best Music Freeware ? & ?Must Have Freeware? coming in the next couple of weeks. I intend to finish up my favorite music freeware in the next 10 posts or so. Then I am going to follow with a new series that showcases freeware programs that I use on a day to basis that help me to get things done with my computer and day to day operations. These will include file utilities, graphic programs, video and more. Please feel free to ?chime? in if you know of something that I don?t write about or know of something that is better than those I have listed. I?ve saved some of the very best music freeware programs for last. Stay tuned! In an unrelated ?mega music world shocker? that transpired over the last couple of weeks? did you all catch what the Eagles did through Wal-Mart? They cut a deal with Walmart to release their latest album without a record labe... More About: Software , Upcoming , Listed , Weeks
Best Music Freeware: JAM Chord Player
2007-11-23 17:44:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: JAM Category: Freeware Chord Player Description: A freeware title that allows you to enter chords by simple text and hear them back in midi song format. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): VISTA Teaching Ideas: This is a great little program that can easily be translated into the classroom. It is very easy to learn and will allow you and your students to explore chord progressions, transpositions and chord variations. You can even cut and paste from a word processor into this program (using their text format). Great for teaching common chord progressions like the Blues or I, vi, V, vi -etc. This also could be used as a stripped down version of band in a box to allow student to practice jazz/music changes. Please note it only plays back the chords, not an arrangement of them. Nonetheless, it is very useful! Home Page: http://pyva.net/eng/jam/ Down... More About: Music
Best Music Freeware: Groove Drum Machine DT010
2007-11-22 06:20:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: Groove Drum Mach ine DT-010 Category: Drum Machine Description: Freeware Drum Machine that features 8 channels of drums with effects. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): VISTA Teaching Ideas: This incredibly fun and useful piece of software allows you and your students to explore rhythms, timings and grooves and render them to .wav format. This drum station is as functional as any drum machine produced in the late 90?s and early 00?s. The recording function makes this particularly useful as you will be able to import this into other software and use in compositions. Home Page: http://www.d-lusion.com Download Links: DIRECT:http://www.d-lusion.com/ProductsDr umstation.html Mustech.net?s BESTMUSICFREEWARE @ esnips.com:Direct from Mustech.net?s esnips.com account -Click it! Visit our repository list of freewares at esnips.com or Visit all of our posts that deal with fre... More About: Music
Best Music Freeware: Switch Audio Converter, Mp3, Wav, Midi And More
2007-11-21 04:30:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: Switch Audio Converter Category: Freeware Audio File Conversion Description: A fantastic freeware title that allows you to convert (or batch convert) almost any type of audio format into another. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): VISTA Teaching Ideas: This great audio freeware utility allows you to convert (or batch convert) many audio formats into another including: wav, mp3, mp2, mpga, m4a, ogg, avi, mid, flac, aac, wma, dct, au, aiff, ogg, raw, msv, dvf, vox, cda, atrac, gsm, dss, sri shn, dss, av, mp3, au aif/aiff, gsm, vox raw, ogg, flac aac, mp2, m4a, wma. A great idea for use with this would be to convert the many copyright free midi files that you may come across (think www.classicalarchives.com) into wav for use with CD distribution. Home Page: http://www.nch.com.au/index.html Download Links: DIRECT:http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index .html Mustech.net?s BESTMUSICFR... More About: Music
Best Music Freeware: trakAxPC, Audio Editor, Mixer, Spicer, Masher
2007-11-20 08:27:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: trakAx PC Category: Freeware Audio Editor , Mixer , Looper Description: A freeware title that allows you to mix music and videos in a very elaborate, graphically pleasing, and fun environment. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): VISTA Teaching Ideas: It?s hard to believe this one is FREE -it is! Although for the non-audio editing person this software can be kind of tricky, it really is easy to use for this type of software. Make your own audio/video mixes. Take advantage of its very clever ?beat matching? technology and unleash the creative spirit that is inside you and your students. Once your ?on? to this software you will find it one of your favorites! Home Page: www.trakax.com Download Links: DIRECT:http://www.trakax.com/software/pc/ download/ Mustech.net?s BESTMUSICFREEWARE @ esnips.com:Direct from Mustech.net?s esnips.com account -Click it! Visit our rep... More About: Music
Best Music Freeware: Finale Music Notation Software, Notepad 2008
2007-11-19 16:01:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: Finale NotePad 2007 - 2008 Category: Freeware Notation Program Description: Compose music using this handy freeware notation program. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): XP Teaching Ideas: This software is great for all your students or anyone who needs a basic music notation program. New with 2008, you can use a keyboard for stepwise MIDI input! This is a must have for any of your students and can easily be put on your school?s computer lab or their own computers for them to explore music theory and composition ideas. It?s available for PC and Mac. Home Page: http://finale.com Download Links: DIRECT:http://finale.com/notepad/ Mustech.net?s BESTMUSICFREEWARE @ esnips.com:Visit our repository list of freewares at esnips.com or Visit our of posts that deal with freeware. Best regards, Mac and Linux Friends: If I?ve posted something that you know of a comparable coun... More About: Software , Music , Notepad
Music Educators With Great Blogs That I Follow?
2007-11-18 06:24:00 It?s time to list the GREAT and PROLIFIC music education and technology bloggers that I follow again and here they are: If you know of another who is championing the cause of music education and technology AND is a blogger, please comment below. I encourage you to add yourself and your blog to the comment list and if you are a blog owner add each and everyone of the people that I have listed here to your blogroll or links! In no particular order or category: Jason Heath- http://doublebassblog.org Owen Bradley- http://digitalmusiceducator.wordpress.com Travis Weller- http://tjweller.wordpress.com Espie Estrella- http://musiced.about.com Evan Tobias- http://etobiasblog.musiced.net Debbie Cavalier- http://debbiecavalier.berkleemusicblogs.c om/ James Frankel- http://jamesfrankel.musiced.net Keith Mason- http://musictechforme.com (Keith you need an RSS feed!) Miikkaa Salavuo- http://weblog.siba.fi/msalavuo/ Pete Whitfield- http://pwhitfield.edublogs.org/ Sta... More About: Music , Blogs , Great , Educator , Cato
Best Music Freeware: Anvil Studio -MIDI Sequencer, Editor And More
2007-11-17 16:10:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: Anivl Studio Category: Freeware MIDI Sequencer/Editor Description: A MIDI editor that allows you to record music with MIDI. A full featured MIDI sequencer and composition tool with unlimited MIDI tracks. Includes ASIO, VST and VSTi support. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): XP Teaching Ideas: The possibilities for a fully featured MIDI sequencer like this are endless. You can use this software to help meet almost any of the National Music Standards. This software is slightly more complex the most early elementary grades will be able to handle but your middle-school/high school kids will love it! Home Page: anvilstudio.com Download Links: DIRECT:http://www.anvilstudio.com/mstudio Z.exe Mustech.net?s BESTMUSICFREEWARE @ esnips.com:Direct from Mustech.net?s esnips.com account -Click it! Visit our repository list of freewares at esnips.com or Visit our of posts that ... More About: Music , Anvil , Midi
Unbelievably Crazy Music Series #5: Revenge Of The Canon -Funtwo Amazing Gu
2007-11-16 21:00:00 Unbelievably Crazy Music Video Series 5: Revenge of the CANON -Funtwo Amazing Guitar Solo! Source: http://youtube.com/ Post Date: 11/16/2007 by J. Pisano Archives: See all our series Viewing Rating: G- For Everyone Comment: This guy is amazing. I certainly do not believe this is a fake. His technique is amazing and his musicianship is superb! Share this with your students who think they?ve accomplished something by beating Guitar Hero on ?Expert?? CAN'T WATCH THIS VIDEO IN RSS! VISIT HTTP://MUSTECH.NET TO CHECK IT OUT!While you're there, leave us a comment on one of our hundres of posts...visit our sponsors or leave a question in our forums or.... Support Mustech.net -Buy us a cup of "band director's" coffee (it's not Starbucks)! YOUR COMMENTS WELCOME! Please subscribe to our RSS feed (opens new window). Scroll Down To Join our Conversation and Comment! Other Great Related Articles From Mustech.net!:*New Unbelievably Crazy Music Series: #1 Russian High Voice, Vitas *Unb... More About: Canon
Best Music Freeware: Tempo Perfect Metronome
2007-11-16 16:12:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: NCH Swift Sounds? Temp o Perfect Metronome Category: Freeware PC Metronome Description: The best freeware metronome I?ve come across. It allows you to choose from multiple audio hardware outputs, includes a sub-dividible beat option, and has a tempo guide built in. Very Nice looking and well done. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): VISTA Teaching Ideas: If you have a laptop, then this is a must have for you. You can literally have this metronome at anytime. Because it?s freeware you can give it to your students as a practice aid. The sub-dividable beat option will come in ?handy? when working out harder rhythmic patterns. The listing of the tempo ranges (allegro, presto, etc.) will also serve as a learning aid for those that use the metronome freeware tool. Home Page: http://nch.com.au Download Links: DIRECT:http://www.nch.com/au/metronome Mustech.net?s BES... More About: Music
Circle Post: My Band Room Is On Fire?Top 7 Concert Pieces to save!
2007-11-16 01:52:00 The following is a great educational idea from Travis J. Weller? Let?s play! Here are the rules? you have to respond to Weller?s hypothetical situation by posting a post (or comment here) with the above title and adding your top 7 pieces in the post. Let?s include a link to each other?s site by copying and pasting the below information and adding to it? At the end of the month?I?ll recap (hopefully along with everyonelse that posted) the complete entirety of the lists (we will all know who posted what via the trackbacks we post if we copy and paste the below section) and we?ll have a pretty good list of literature accumulated in a very novel way! ; &nbs p; Copy below and paste into your post:____________________________________ ________________ You are seated in a rehearsal with your students. Suddenly without warning an alto clarinet spontaneously combusts ... More About: Band , Concert , Post , Fire , Circle
Best Music Freeware: The E Chromatic Tuner
2007-11-15 21:37:00 Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: The ?E? Chromatic tuner Category: Freeware Tuning Application Description: A computer based tuner that shows you a waveform and the frequency that you are playing on the screen. Allows for multiple audio inputs to be selected. Screen SnapShot: Tested On Which System (before posting): XP Teaching Ideas: If you have a laptop, then this is a must have for you. You can literally have this tuner with you anytime you have your laptop at your side. Try connecting this to your LCD projector or television for use in conjunction with tuning your ensembles as a visual aid to help the with their tuning abilities. Home Page: kmacleod.hostingisfree.com Download Links: DIRECT:http://kmacleod.hostingisfree.com/ etune.php Mustech.net?s BESTMUSICFREEWARE @ esnips.com:Direct from Mustech.net?s esnips.com account -Click it! Visit our repository list of freewares at esnips.com or Visit our of posts that deal with freeware. Best reg... More About: Music , Tuner
Music Freeware: Midi Notation Player, Watch Midi File Notation In Real Time
2007-11-14 19:35:00 I am going to start a new series of MUST HAVE MUSIC FREEWARE. In the end, I am going to list a couple of dozen music technology related freewares (mostly PC based) and turn them into a collection page called the Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit. Over the past year I have listed a number of freewares on this site and plan on continuing this endeavour, in particular, over the next few months. Music Educator?s Freeware Toolkit (Currently- filling our toolbox) Title: Notation Software?s Notation Player Category: Freeware MIDI file player Description: A Midi file player that allows you to SEE the notation as it plays the file. Teaching Ideas: Use this in class to view musical pieces instead of only listening to them. There are an unlimited amount of MIDI music files available from the web. Start with the classical archives in your search for MIDI files. Home Page: www.notation.com Download Links: DIRECT:http://www.notation.com/Download.. . More About: Watch , Time , File
Should We Utilize Technology In The Music Classroom? Questions To Ask First
2007-11-13 16:21:00 I write quite a bit about music and technology at mustech.net. A number of music educators think that ?music technology? only pertains to technology that employs MIDI or is directly is related to audio in some way. The truth is that music teachers need to be versed in a variety of computer-related technologies that apply to making music or teaching music in a classroom. Many of the technologies used in music classrooms aren?t ?music technology? in the strict sense of the phrase. For example: using a LCD projector isn?t really ?music technology? but it can be a catalyst for making your teaching more exciting and effective. Understanding how to use Microsoft EXCEL, or any other spreadsheet software, isn?t ?music technology? but it can make the administration part of your job much easier and consequently allow you more time to teach and plan. Before I use or employ any type of technology, I ask myself the following question... More About: Music , Technology , Questions , The Music
Freeware Ear Training, Solfeggio Program For Windows And Linux
2007-11-08 17:28:00 There are a number of great online programs that offer ear training/solfeggio type of exercises. GNU Solfege allows you to have ear training exercises with you all the time for FREE. When I first found this software I was ecstatic. We have used a number of software packages in the past for our students, Practica Musica, Mac GAMUT, etc. and they do a fine job. GNU offers similar experiences, though not as aesthetically pretty, for no cost. This is the kind of software you need to put on your school computers and in your school?s computer lab. It costs nothing and all you need is a set of speakers or headphones with the computer to make it work. This software offers the following features: training with melodic and harmonic intervals chord identify scale identify singing practice (limited) melodic dictation harmonic dictation rhythmic dictation and more All in all it?s a pretty nice freeware package. Download this directly from: www.solfege.org&... More About: Windows , Linux , Training , Freeware , Program
Copywronged -International Music Score Library Project, The Latest Victim O
2007-11-06 20:24:00 The second Cease and Desist letter from Universal Edition, put a stop to one of the best efforts I?ve seen to put expired copyrighted scores into the hands of those that don?t have the means to acquire them otherwise. On Saturday October 13, 2007, another ?library? was forced to close their doors to the public. I don?t blame Feldmahler, the project leader for the group, for his decision though. He doesn?t have the time or the resources to do what Universal Edition is demanding of him. I?m not one to go against international copyright law, or ours for that matter, but this whole thing just reeks of the ?big guy? squashing the ?little man? again. Just when we had a little light of hope?where is the good news? The world has lost access a legitimate treasure trove of music information with the closing of this site. The people of imslp.org did nothing wrong and WERE very concerned about protecting copyright(s). I sincerely hope that one of the la... More About: Music , International , Library , Project , Score
Where Has The Time Gone? Reflections Of A Music Teacher
2007-11-05 16:35:00 The following article is by Scott Ditullio. Scott has written a couple of articles for us before and I have asked him to become a contributing author here at mustech.net! I welcome him into our fold and into our global conversation about music, education and technology, and look forward to many great insights and posts from Scott in the future. The first portion of this article was originally written in June of 2007. ; ***************************************** * Where has the time gone? As I look back over the past twelve years, I have to stop and ask, where have all the hours gone. The summer of 2007 marked the first true summer vacation for me. Sounds crazy, I know, but very true! As a high school band director, my former school was committed to participating in a summer parade (like many of you are doing), that meant teaching ... More About: Music , Reflections , Time , Music Education , Teacher
Substitute Teaching As A Music Teacher, Possibilities For The Unemployed Gr
2007-11-04 15:08:00 The following post is from Matthew Haas. Matthew is a very recent graduate from Grove City College and a good friend of mine. I was speaking to him at a recent event and he was telling me about his recent endeavours as a substitute music teacher. I asked him if he would be interesting in writing an article for mustech.net. The following is the result of that conversation, his article is both timely and informative. Please join in the conversation by leaving a comment, story or note for us at the end of the post! ; &nbs p; *************************************** Like the vast majority of music education majors, I graduated with high hopes of attaining my dream job in an ideal setting, inheriting an outstanding music program with talented, dedicated and enthusiastic students and an excellent support base from the administration ... More About: Music , Teaching , Teacher , Subs
Well..MusTech.net is back AND, well we?re back!
2007-11-02 03:54:00 Wow! What a tumultuous four days! I moved mustech.net from ardenthosting to bluehost? it was akin to having a root canal. The whole reason for the move was the popularity of mustech.net?it was eating up too much bandwidth and my old host wasn?t in the price range I was looking for to move up, granted they are amazing and I?m keeping a few of my other sites with them still. Here are some of the highlights: Had to acquire a new host? Had to change the DNS servers Still waiting to for full DNS propagation (I cheated, so I could get to my site and have it work using the HOSTS file and bypassed the DNS altogether) Had to migrate wordpress from one host to another?this is where the grief really started Exported the wordpress sql (the guts of this site) Copied my other files to bluehost Changed some config files and imported the sql file?all was well, NOT! Due to different version of SQL and competing character encoding schemes (Latin, Swedish and UTF)... More About: Back , Well
The great Non-Traditional music class experiment
2007-10-25 04:17:00 Well, time to put my ?money where my mouth is??I have transformed my 2nd block ?A? day class into a non-traditional music class. This was done mostly out of necessity and desperation (the father of invention?). When we had registration last year I was pleased to see that my 2nd jazz ensemble was overflowing with students. Eager to start the year, I began the plan for a jazz journey- to my horror, when the students arrived they all played guitar or drums (except for a few band instruments) so I knew that I couldn?t have a traditional jazz band. I have been an advocate of ?teach what walks through the door? for some time now- championing the cause that if we do not accept entry-level students into our band programs, we are doomed to extinction or worse yet- relegated to the ?dumping ground? of the guidance department. Now for the experiment: I have set this class up to be project based. We are running the class as a sort of reverse music theory class.&nbs... More About: Music , Great , Experiment , Class , Traditional
Pageflakes: Get Your Custom Music Education And Technology News Fast!
2007-10-23 04:54:00 I thought I would share one of the web resources that I use to keep track of the many music related blogs that I follow. It?s called a pagecast and it?s from http://pageflakes.com and is brought to you courtesy of mustech.net. You can create your own if you would like by visiting their site and signing up for a free account. Here is a screen shot of the Music , Technology and Education Pagecast: Here are the sites I have included in the pagecast: Music Education Magic Mustech.net Composing Like Mad Catalysts and Connections Audio Lemon James Frankel, Music Technology Glued to the String Making Music Matters Podcasts from Mustech.net MusicEdNews Jason Heath?s Double Bass Blog The Digital Music Educator Music Education in the News (Aggregate from mustech.net) Miikka Salavuo About Music Education (Espie Estrella) Suite 101: Music Education Podcomplex Guitar Teacher?s Lessons I hope you like this and get some REAL use out of it. I ch...
Progression Guitar Composition Software: Review And Thoughts
2007-10-22 02:50:00 I was sent a copy of the guitar software Progression to evaluate a couple of weeks ago. This software is made by Notion Music and hopes to gain the acceptance of guitar composer hopefuls. I used the software over a period of a few days in order to familiarize myself with the product and learn it?s intricacies. The cost of this software is around $100.00 U.S. (list $149.00 U.S.). Progression does not attempt to be a full blown composition program like Finale, Sibelius or its? sister product, Notion 2.0. This software is more of a singer/player/songwriter type of composition software. It focuses primarily on rhythm and lyrics, however you can add plenty of staves to accompany whatever types of instruments you might like to include in your budding composition. Where this software shines is it?s built in sample library. The sound library is truly sonically impressive. It includes samples from Neil Zaza, Victor Wooten and Roy Wooten as well... More About: Software , Guitar , Review , Thoughts , Composition
Promote Your Concert Or Event Online Through Syndication: Eventful, Zvents,
More articles from this author:2007-10-09 04:29:00 Sure you can promote your event though the newspaper and local TV add channel, but have you considered a Web 2.0 solution? Enter: www.zvents.com www.eventful.com www.upcoming.com www.google.com/calendar All of these online web sites allow you to promote your concert or event free of charge to the pubic and can create custom RSS feeds of your events (RSS FEEDS MADE EASY!) to incorporate into your websites or syndicate as you like. Google even will add your event to the Google Maps when anyone is searching the area for things to do! Zvents: The place to find out about local events! Zvents helps you quickly find events you care about, and gives you the tools to share event information with others. You can search for things to do (just like your favorite search engine), or browse categories if you?re not sure what you want to do. Event ful: Founded in 2004, Eventful is the leading events website which enables its community of users to discover, promote, share and create eve... More About: Syndication , Concert , Promote , Online 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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