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Archive for November, 2004

GuitarBot

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004

Percy Grainger: “Too long has music been subject to the limitations of the human hand and subject to the interfering interpretation of a middle-man: the performer.”
GuitarBot to the rescue!

The Beatles Meet Metallica

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Beatallica - worth a listen

Aaron Copland on Composing

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

Excerpt from Aaron Copland – What to Listen for in Music
Pg. 24
Chapter Title: The Creative Process in Music.
Most people want to know how things are made. They frankly admit, however, that they feel completely at sea when it comes to understanding how a piece of music made. Where a composer begins, how he manages to […]

Memory & Sleep

Friday, November 19th, 2004

The following is an excerpt from James McGaugh’s Book Memory & Emotion:
Robert Stickgold and his colleagues reported that human subjects improvement on a visual discrimination task occurred only after the subjects had had a night’s sleep and that, most interestingly, the improvement varied directly with the amount of slow-wave sleep during the early hours of […]

Tab Resources

Thursday, November 18th, 2004

Some Places to get Tabs Online (leave more in the comments)
Olga
Guitar Noise
Fresh Tabs
Tab Crawler
Chordie
Heart Wood Guitar
Google (just type the name of the song or artist and “tab” or “chord” and sift through the results)

Drum Machines, Strings & Backwards Lyrics

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004

36 Vintage Virtual Drum Machines: click here
How many strings do you need?

Backwards Lyrics & Audio for
Stairway to Heaven,
Imagine,
I’m So Tired,
Kiss, Kiss, Kiss,
My Name Is,
Pokemon Rap,
Empty Spaces,
Another One Bites The Dust,
Hit Me Baby One More Time : click here

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