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tartley.comGoogle Calendar tells me that I’ve now had 8 piano lessons with the esteemed Marios. It’s been heaps of fun, and it’s long past time I shared my progress to date, in the form of some ghastly midi files. Download at your peril, they are truly awful – only of interest as a record of [...]
Writing music out by hand is incredibly laborious. Or at least, it is for me. This is my first attempt to pen some notes by plonking around on the keyboard until it sounds right. Doubtless errors of all kinds abound, which I’d be much obliged if anyone pointed out to me, tar very much.
It’s been said before by others, but I hadn’t realised how insidious it is: When musicians talk about ‘theory’, they actually mean ‘notation’. With reference to my previous whinging about music notation, I notice that the Music Notation Modernization Association are suggesting a number of revisions to make notation more useful and consistent. One of [...]
I’ve been riding high on the sheer joy that is Guitar Hero II (PS2) recently. Now that Psychobilly Freakout is the only remaining song for which a five-star review performance is still eluding me, before unleashing the masochistically feverish hard difficulty setting at least, it’s time for me to get my ass into gear and [...]
