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... Continue reading ...
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 –
Posted by John Dalziel on Tuesday, June 1, 2010,
In :
Authoring Tool
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..
Posted by John Dalziel on Wednesday, December 30, 2009,
In :
Authoring Tool
SheetMusicEditor allows users to drag and drop their...
clefs,
time signatures and
notes
...onto the sheet. Very simple, and very intuitive.
Because users have to manually drag everything into the right place the
resulting sheets won’t have that high quality look; alignment of notes
will be slightly off.
A great tool to write down simple tunes and prepare them for printing
quickly. I don't think it would be advisable to use with very
complicated compositions.
Posted by John Dalziel on Monday, October 12, 2009,
In :
Library
Musopen is an online library classical music of music recordings and sheet music that are in the public domain.
All of the recordings on Musopen can be downloaded and or be embedded into a blog or website. The sheet music offered by Musopen is hosted by Scribd from where visitors can download or print the sheet music.
Musopen could be a good resource for practitioners/learners of music theory and music performance; visit http://www.musopen.com/ to find out more.
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.
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.
