Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
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UGH!!! I’m pissed.
YouTube removes Comedy Central clips over DMCA claims
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NaSoAlMo is a free yearly competition where musicians write and record an entire album during the month of November. The idea came from NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, where writers attempt a 50,000 word novel during the same month.
It’s all about enthusiasm and perseverance — Not perfection. It’s about silencing your inner critic for thirty [...]
This is an amazing story.
First the Dilbert creator loses his voice due to a rare condition known as spasmodic dysphonia. Now he reveals in an amazingly affecting personal blog post how he learned to speak again. In Bodyhack.
Full link: Scott Adams ‘Hacks’ His Brain
There is a common misconception that “things” can be boring. You may find doing your taxes boring. But some people find it riveting. Therefore, we can’t say that doing taxes is boring. “It” is not boring. Then what part of that sentence or thought is boring? It is the person doing the thinking that is [...]
Meditation is often credited with helping people feel more focused and energetic, but are the benefits measurable? When researchers tested the alertness of volunteers, they found that the practice proved more effective than naps, exercise or caffeine.
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Nothing is more powerful than using your opponents words to make your case.
Iraq and incentives:
Clearly behind the scenes, when the Americans put pressure on Iraqis, they’re telling them to work with each other. Even the Republicans say that, that in order for Iraq to have a chance of working, each of the factions must compromise. But here’s the disconnect. Here at home, the Republicans completely disenfranchise the [...]
Division of the octave into intervals smaller than the half-tone, the smallest interval used within the tempered scale. Examples include Fokker’s thirty-one-note organ, Partch’s forty-three-note percussion instruments, etc. Microtonal music, compositions based on microtones.
…but the person who plays the music.
You do a lot of work on your instrument technique, your knowledge of music theory, and your craft of music composition. Do you also have a plan to improve you, the musician?
Take two musicians and give them the same four bars of music to play. One musician will sound [...]
Ze Frank called Rocketboom out for s t r e t c h i n g their stats. Ouch! It was pretty messy. And I’m not “rocketbooming.”
By the way, yesterday’s Rocketboom sucked! What the hell was she doing reporting brewer’s fest if she doesn’t like beer? Man, she was straight up rude. I miss Amanda.
Splice is a free website where you can download music, compose songs, record sounds, remix, make friends and just listen to new music — all through your browser window!
Many people will say this is fake. No problem. I’ve personally experienced being hit by different “thoughts” from a skilled Qigong practitioner. I know first hand that this could be real.
This article by Eric Wargo was inspired by an address Malcolm Gladwell gave at this year’s Association for Psychological Science Convention.
To be a prodigy in music, for example, is to be a mimic, to reproduce what you hear from grown-up musicians. Yet only rarely, according to Gladwell, do child musical prodigies manage to make the [...]
This is a pretty cool list of weird musical instruments and gizmos. But I doubt a self-playing violin is soothing to the ear! :/
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Scrybe is a groundbreaking online organizer that caters to today’s lifestyle in a cohesive and intuitive way. Simple solutions for some age old problems.
I Love Music Video is a simple browser search tool that will help you find your favorite artist videos in YouTube. It also searches Last.fm which is my favorite source of new and different music.
What’s your Last.fm username? Let’s share music tastes.
Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Greeks, Persians, Europeans…the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question.
Web site earFeeder scans your computer’s music library and creates a customized RSS feed for your newsreader with news related to the artists in your music library.
The AGNULA project is trying to create the first computer system tailored specifically for musicians. Best of all, since it’s based around the open source Linux OS, it’s free!
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about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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