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Music Theory for Beginners

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Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by bartl »

ThomPete wrote: post #18
1331 wrote: post #2

A friend of mine here in Tokyo owns a small music company and recently launched a series of games to help with music training. They are flash-based, but I have been quite impressed with them and have enjoyed them quite a bit! He is using a freemium model, and you can try out the games on his website without even registering. (Free registration gives you progress tracking, and subscription gives you access to all leve…

Three things 1. Send him this presentation: http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the... 2. Tell him to do it for the iphone and ipad where people can also practice on the ipad. 3. Set up achievement levels Khan Academy for music education.

>Tell him to do it for the iphone and ipad

in Flash?? Can't be done, you know that.

Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by eagleal »

jonp wrote: post #6

This is great. Can anyone recommend a "DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)" for Windows? Preferably with at least a free trial version. Thanks.

I personally use FL Studio/Sibelius (FLS trial won't let you save your song in an editable format, but you can export in ogg/wav/midi/mp3). It depends on what you want to do, for music production Pro Tools/Logic Pro are a must (though it's more about the instrument library and external hardware quality).

Consider looking at the See also section for a list of DAWs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Workstation#See_a...

Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by hasenj »

ThomPete wrote: post #17
hasenj wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something to note: whole and half steps are not the only available type of steps, you can also move quarter steps. It's not common in Western music (if present at all) but very common in Middle Eastern music. Maqam world ( http://maqamworld.com ) provides a decent index of many Middle Eastern scales, some of them utilizing quarter tones. For instance: http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat/rast.html http://www.maqamworld.…

There are many ways do divide an octave. Steve Vai created a scale called the Xavian scale wich is dividing the octave by 10. He used in on Deep Down Into The Pain http://www.guitarflame.com/2008/xavian-scale-steve-vais-own-...

I'm thinking about a music application that lets you place tones in arbitrary locations on a continuous line (representing the tone space) and assign them keys on the keyboard.

Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by psawaya »

jonp wrote: post #6

This is great. Can anyone recommend a "DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)" for Windows? Preferably with at least a free trial version. Thanks.

If you're a programmer, you might be more interested in Pure Data (http://puredata.info/) or cSound (http://csound.sourceforge.net/). Both are free.

There's also Renoise (http://www.renoise.com/) which is inspired by old school mod trackers. There's a free demo, and the full version is really cheap.

Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by 1331 »

shawndrost wrote: post #15
1331 wrote: post #2

A friend of mine here in Tokyo owns a small music company and recently launched a series of games to help with music training. They are flash-based, but I have been quite impressed with them and have enjoyed them quite a bit! He is using a freemium model, and you can try out the games on his website without even registering. (Free registration gives you progress tracking, and subscription gives you access to all leve…

Really good stuff! Bug report: after I created an account, I was given a "Registration successful. You are now logged in." flash message in the middle of a "Cookies Required" page. It seems to have logged me in correctly, though. http://i.imgur.com/KMBPQ.png

Thank you for the bug report! I have passed it on.

Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by bmurphy »

ThomPete wrote: post #17
hasenj wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something to note: whole and half steps are not the only available type of steps, you can also move quarter steps. It's not common in Western music (if present at all) but very common in Middle Eastern music. Maqam world ( http://maqamworld.com ) provides a decent index of many Middle Eastern scales, some of them utilizing quarter tones. For instance: http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat/rast.html http://www.maqamworld.…

There are many ways do divide an octave. Steve Vai created a scale called the Xavian scale wich is dividing the octave by 10. He used in on Deep Down Into The Pain http://www.guitarflame.com/2008/xavian-scale-steve-vais-own-...

That song is terrible (and I love Devin Townsend, the singer).

Re: Music Theory for Beginners

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Post by 1331 »

ThomPete wrote: post #18
1331 wrote: post #2

A friend of mine here in Tokyo owns a small music company and recently launched a series of games to help with music training. They are flash-based, but I have been quite impressed with them and have enjoyed them quite a bit! He is using a freemium model, and you can try out the games on his website without even registering. (Free registration gives you progress tracking, and subscription gives you access to all leve…

Three things 1. Send him this presentation: http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the... 2. Tell him to do it for the iphone and ipad where people can also practice on the ipad. 3. Set up achievement levels Khan Academy for music education.

Thank you very much for the feedback! I have sent it to my friend via email to make sure that he does not miss it.
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