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How to Play the Guitar by Ear

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:48:29 -0500

MIDI Control of Stage Lighting

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:36:34 -0500

MIDI and DMX, a very popular communication standard in stage lighting, do have some interesting similarities. Both have grown well beyond the modest goals of their creators. MIDI was first envisioned as a way to connect two keyboards together. DMX was intended to replace the thick analog cable running from lighting consoles to dimmer racks.

Fender® G-DEC™ MIDI Operations

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:22:57 -0500

Fender’s Guitar Digital Entertainment Center (G-DEC) can communicate with computers or other G-DECs via a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) connection. This document contains “how to” information for the following topics:

1. Playing external MIDI files, PC and Apple Mac
2. Saving custom presets
3. Loading custom presets
4. Transferring G-DEC software updates from your computer to the G-DEC
5. Copying G-DEC internal MIDI loops to a PC (Personal Computer)
6. For programmers – Fender MIDI dump file format.

Basic FM Synthesis

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:48:52 -0500

This booklet was written to help students to learn the basics of linear FM synthesis and to better understand the Yamaha DX/TX series synthesizers. It is not intended to be a complete course of study on either FM synthesis or the DX7. There are already several very comprehensive books plus a fairly substantial users' manual that provide a mountain of information.

MusicXML 1.1 Tutorial

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:32:04 -0500

MusicXML is a new music interchange format for music software programs. The goal is to create a universal translator for common Western music notation. The musical information is designed to be usable by notation programs, sequencers and other performance programs, music education programs, and music databases.

3 finger folk for the 5 string banjo

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:28:53 -0500

this book contains the tablature for 41 folk tunes, written for the 5-string banjo. They are arranged in a style similar to melodic bluegrass, in that, as far as possible, the same string is not plucked for two adjacent notes, and the same finger is not used to pluck two adjacent notes.

Commercial Art Music

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:24:49 -0500

Is a commercial environment good for music? In one sense the answer seems to be manifestly yes, given the vast quantities of music produced and sold in live and especially recorded performances.