Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘Instruments’

Humanthesizer

This is cool on so many levels.

Top 5 Music Gadgets You Didn’t Know About

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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Advice To Beginning Musicians

If you’re new to the world of playing music or even if you’re just now thinking about playing your very first note, here’s my 7-step plan for beginning musicians:

Get a cheap instrument.
You probably have an idea of what instrument you want to play already. Don’t waste your money on the best instrument money can buy. [...]

Conventional Instruments To Make Unconventional Sounds

These performers fit into a wider group of people in the self-made instrument scene, which is particularly vibrant in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“It is one of the main centers for people who make their own instruments and create their setups,” says Pamela Z.
This is partly because of the Bay Area’s high density of tech-savvy [...]

Learn Orchestration Free Online

From A New Way of Learning Orchestration: Online, Free, Interactive:
Check out this extensive site put together by the Philharmonia Orchestra:
The Sound Exchange: The Orchestra: Instruments
Peter also points to Garritan forums where “Gary Garritan is working on realizing a completely free version of the classic Rimsky-Korsakov Principles of Orchestration…”
How cool is the culture of opensource?!

Do You Consider That Each Note Has A Different Character?

Ross: Hi, do you consider that each note has a different character? If so, have you found that the same qualities of the same notes are heard by different people (eg. F# = bright, Eb = dull)? If not, what do you see as the point of learning AP besides using it as a party [...]

What’s The Most Powerful Technique For Perfect Pitch?

Jim: Ok, I just want to know what you think the most powerful technique for perfect pitch is. I usually just play an A chord and then randomly choose a note to figure out. It works pretty good but Im sure you’ve got a better trick.
Graham: Jim, here’s what I think the most powerful technique [...]