music

Restorm.com

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:03:08 +0100

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 for music in one place.

Take a closer look at http://restorm.com/pages/thisisrestorm.

New York Philharmonic

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:26:25 +0100

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;
programs;
scores; and
business documents.

The plan for the near future is the addition of...

audio and video recordings to the archives;
press clippings; and
concert magazines.

Search the archives by date, by era, or by artefact type by visiting http://archives.nyphil.org/.

Stock Music Boutique

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:16:55 +0100

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 Stock Music Boutique is made up of a large library of royalty free music that stakeholders can buy on the spot, and proceed to use on any project of theirs. All of the featured tracks have full music clearance, and they are usable the moment that they are purchased. And they are usable forever more, too. You pay for them just once, and you can use them as many times as you like after wards.

When all is said and done, there is nothing more frustrating that having a video, which they have uploaded to YouTube, removed on copyright grounds. If that has already happened to you, then you will understand why a site like this one is so important.

A bonus , when I checked the site out, was the 10 free downloads.

Visit http://stockmusicboutique.com/ to find out more.

Theta Music Trainer

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:51:44 +0100

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
Sound.

Each game aims to train users in a specific music skill.

Note: A free account provides complete access to beginner levels of all the games. If users intend to take up starter courses with specific learning schedules, they can subscribe for $7.95 a month ( or $4.50 / month if payment is for a year, in advance).

Visit http://trainer.thetamusic.com/en to try out the free games.

World Music Archive: BBC

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:29:34 +0100

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.

Visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/ to start you global music tour.

Blues Maker

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:07:46 +0100

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!

Soundation

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:16:07 +0100

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 and choose to display them in the middle pane which is where music loops can be viewed;
the right pane is where the loops are located. users can click-n-drag them from there to the middle pane; and
the bottom pane is where the play, rewind, forward, and repeat buttons are located. This pane also tells you about the duration of your music;
the last three buttons have the functions of...
- downloading the created music,
- popping up a virtual keyboard (the instrument), and
- making the right pane appear / disappear.

The abundance of various sounds and the user friendly interface of Soundation make it accessible to all visitors.

Visit http://www.soundation.com/ to try it out and/or to find out more.

Cantanding

Sun, 09 May 2010 18:11:48 +0100

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 case users have just no idea what to sing,or they may even want to face the challenge of singing songs they're not familiar with, they can look at the...

Most Sung and
Last Sung charts

...provided on the main page and pick a song from the ones that are displayed there.

And if they feel even braver, they can simply hit the "Don't know what to sing? Sing a song at random!" link.

Try it out at http://www.cantanding.com/.

Science of Music

Mon, 03 May 2010 18:50:25 +0100

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.

JamStudio

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:42:49 +0100

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);
a registered-user account that allows you to save music for later and gain access to more instruments; and also,
a paid, premium version that gives users many more options, such as saving songs to a mixed-down mp3 audio format for download, and the use of a wider range of musical instruments.

The sound quality is surprisingly good.

Visit http://www.jamstudio.com/Studio/index.htm to try it out and/or to find out more.