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Restorm.com

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, August 25, 2011 In : Social Media 

Looking for New and Emerging Technologies that could help your learners work in the music industry?

Well restorm.com is a music platform designed to do just that.

Their professional and completely free tools, can help learners earn money online, generate more attention for their music and save them, and practitioners, time, all at once.

restorm.com brings together all "players in the music industry"; Artists, labels, promoters, media representatives and music lovers can all share their passion f...
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New York Philharmonic

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, April 1, 2011 In : Archives 
Image of New York Philharmonic Digital Archive Header

The New York Philharmonic is putting its archives online, which could be a great resource for practitioners and learners of music history; when the audio and video elements come online, the archives will become a great resource for music appreciation as well.

It is early days and the entire collection is not yet digitized and online, however I'm assured that there is a lot of good resources available already. Visit the New York Philharmonic archives today you will find...

  • images;
  • ...

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Stock Music Boutique

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, December 19, 2010 In : Library 

Many practitioners and/or other learning provider stakeholders may not be aware that homemade YouTube videos are not allowed to have just any old song playing along to the images or scenes that are displayed. In some cases, they only get to realize it when YouTube takes down the video they had uploaded so enthusiastically.

To prevent that from happening they should be using music that is actually royalty free. And that is something they can find on the Stock Music Boutique website.

The ...


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Theta Music Trainer

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, October 15, 2010 In : Games 

Theta Music Trainer, an interactive online resource for music learners, aims to teach music playing skills through games.

It concentrates on "Ear training – skills that can help users to play, improvise and compose music by ear." There are games available to help users to...

  • train on major and minor tones;
  • identify chord patterns;
  • to find chords that match melodies and more.

Visitors to the website will find four categories of games –

  • Melody;
  • Harmony;
  • Rhythm ;and
  • Soun...

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World Music Archive: BBC

Posted by John Dalziel on Friday, July 23, 2010 In : Library 

The BBC has unveiled a new archive of world music, allowing visitors to sample music traditions of more than 40 countries.

  • Brazil,
  • China,
  • Corsica,
  • Cuba,
  • India,
  • Iran,  
  • Mozambique,
  • Turkey - and many more.

This eclectic collection of indigenous music was collected by visiting each country (including several conflict zones) to record live music.

Featuring 100s of hours of free recordings, this archive is now available to a global audience. You can start exploring right now.

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Blues Maker

Posted by John Dalziel on Thursday, June 3, 2010 In : Authoring Tool 

Blues Maker is a fun online tool where users select Lyrics and Harmonica effects to make their own piece of music.

In the words of the website,

"Let the sadness out of your heart. After gathering it all, click next and sing along. Foot stomping is recommended."

Visit http://www.thebluesmaker.com/ and make music! 


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Soundation

Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 In : Authoring Tool 

Image of Soundation Logo

As you will all be aware from previous blogs, thanks to the internet, in order to create music, users no longer need to know how to play an instrument.

If they want to create something, they can use various online services and mashup "music loops" to create something unique. Soundation is one such website.

Soundation is an online free music mixing program that has many sound loops. The interface is divided into parts..

  • the left pane is for audio channels;
  • users can set the volume an...

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Cantanding

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, May 9, 2010 In : Karaoke 

Cantanding is an online karaoke service that can be used by everybody, everywhere, and at no cost whatsoever.

All users have to do, in order to start singing, is...

  • Enter the artist's name and the title of the song you want to sing in this way:
    ARTIST - SONG
    Example: Michael Jackson - Beat it
  • a list of matching results will be provided; then
  • click on the one that seems appropriate.

Note: The actual songs are from YouTube, so Cantanding is likely to find most requests.

Just in cas...


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Science of Music

Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, May 3, 2010 In : Science 

Ever wondered why...

  • ...your singing sounds great in the shower?
  • ...some songs get 'stuck' in your head?
  • ...you hear base from a neighbour's stereo, but not the treble?
  • ...some music gives you 'goose bumps'?
  • ...your recorded voice sounds so strange to you? etc.

Access answers to these and other questions, movies, and online exhibits at http://www.exploratorium.edu/music/index.html.

Oh! And on the way visitors can...

  • Compose;
  • Mix;
  • Dance;
  • Drum;
  • Experiment and above all...
  • Listen.

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JamStudio

Posted by John Dalziel on Sunday, April 25, 2010 In : Authoring Tool 

JamStudio is a website that makes song composition easier by allowing users to...

  • choose an instrument loop;
  • plug in basic chord changes; and
  • listen to what they have created — all within seconds.
    All of this is done rather intuitively by clicking on boxes/menus/etc.

A basic knowledge of music theory is helpful but, it is not necessary for making music at Jamstudio, which has...

  • a free (with adverts) version that doesn’t require any login information (this is ideal for learners...

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John Dalziel
Liverpool

John Dalziel I'm an eLearning Adviser specializing in stimulating and supporting innovation in learning via eBooks, eMagazines, blogs (including audio versions), online TV, interactive resources, forums, workshops, conferences and face2face consultations. Evaluating and becoming familiar with sustainable and new technologies allows me to respond to the needs of learning providers from a position of experience rather than 'hearsay'. Supported learning providers, in the northwest of England (UK), can contact me for FREE consultations. Based at Lancaster University I work for the JISC Regional Support Centre - Northwest.
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