Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
“These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording sesion notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings.”
“Here’s a few of the musicians you can listen to: Count Basie & His Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Oscar Peterson Trio and Thelonious Monk. Registration is required but it’s oh so worth it. The New York Times has the backstory of how these recordings ended up at Wolfgang’s Vault.”
NPR has compiled a list of the 50 most important recordings of the past 10 years.
“Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes (no Photoshop edit). I knew it wasn’t the most original idea in the universe. I was just curious to hear what melody the birds were creating.” -Jarbas Agnelli
With subtle accompaniment by longtime friend Herbie Hancock, and a slide show that has opened the minds (and pocketbooks) of CEOs across the country, artist and youth activist Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music and unlikely partnerships.
Mark your calendars. 12 weeks of intense “Music Hacking” begins on October 15th. Visit Absolute Pitch University for all the details. But you must do it fast because seats are strictly limited.
My musical partner and owner of Denver School of Music has just announced his brand new composition course.
A neuroscientist explains why women want rock stars to father their children, and how melodies can work like Prozac.
This looks like a good book: This Is Your Brain On Music. I always get nervous, though, when scientists try to reduce everything to “The Brain.” There’s obviously a lot more going on in the universe than [...]
Musiclens lets you search for music using vague criteria like how loud it is or its tempo and mood. Pretty spiffy flash interface as well.
Musiclens is different from Song Tapper and maybe not as good for finding the title of a song. But it shines if you use it to discover new music. I especially [...]
Research shows that people with musical training have different memory pathways compared to others.
Mr Brennan tested the ability of 72 people, including musicians and non-musicians, to recognise musical themes from popular TV shows, such as Friends, Law and Order and M*A*S*H.
They were required to differentiate between the original theme and a transposed version where pitch, [...]
Some of my favorites:
Wikipedia Musical Genre: User built info for all genres.
Ishkur Electronic Music: Guide to electronic music & sample database.
Discogs.com: Record labels, artists and releases.
MusicBrainz.org: Music metadata tag creator.
Weirdomusic.com: Strange, wacky, odd, and just plain bizarre music.
Mutopia: Free sheet music archives.
Indie- Friendly Radio: Stations accepting indie artists.
Musipedia: Search notation & melodies.
GuitarGeek: Guitar rig database
mvdbase.com: [...]
From Your best stuff:
So, the question: should you put your best song on the free CD?
If it’s your best song, and it’s free, then no one will pay to get it from iTunes. And if it’s the best song on the album, maybe no one will buy the album since they already have the song.
It’s [...]
Mac only. Sorry.
My good friend Tripp Lanier created a meditation timer widget. It’s works for more than just meditation too. For example, if you’re a musician and you want to ear train or write music for 30 minutes, your music sessions will begin and end with a nice bell sound. There’s even a [...]
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 [...]
Wired: “Hailed as one of the first to break out without the backing of a manager or label, the quartet’s high-octane record is widely tipped to top the charts.”
They’re talking about the British group, the Arctic Monkeys. Watch for their new album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, and see how they [...]
Blogcritics’ own Robert Burke was featured today in a story on C-net News.com. The story highlighted the playlists he features on his personal websites and shares here, calling them and playlists in general the future of music.
Burke uses his series of sites, called Scopecreep.com to post playlists that can be played by any Yahoo [...]
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.
First Listen: MGMT, 'Congratulations' http://ff.im/-hSQ1x 7 hrs ago
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