Tag: digital music
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It’s not just a punchline – the “Probability-Based Drummer” is a real thing.
While this almost certainly belongs on the tech part of my website, rather than the music portion, I just really love the phrase, probability-based drummer. I can think of a few probability-based musicians I’ve known in my life, and I think I’m going to start using that phrase instead of saying they have “bad rhythm”…
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Upgrade to Digital Music Reading: New Stand!
So I’ve really been enjoying using my tablet as a digital music reader. It’s certainly been an adjustment (I’ve written about some of those here), but overall I really have been enjoying it. One recent upgrade that I made was for a relatively small and compact stand/tablet holder setup to fit in the car and…
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2018 Music Notation Software Options
Since I’ve started this website, I’ve been slowly (very slowly) trying to write down exercises and other materials for my students and other horn players to use. While I was doing this I quickly realized that trying to do it by hand wasn’t going to work – my handwriting is not great, and so writing…
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Life with a Chromebook – 1 Year In
I posted awhile ago about moving from paper to digital music (you can find the original article here, and an update posted after a few months here), and so far I’ve quite enjoyed the change. While the vast majority of people who use digital music readers use iPads, I elected to go a slightly different…
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MuseScore + IMSLP = OpenScore
A new project and Kickstarter recently announced by Edward Guo, founder of IMSLP and Thomas Bonte, CEO and co-founder of MuseScore, aims to take music into the digital age with the OpenScore project. The OpenScore Project The goal of the OpenScore Kickstarter project – launched on May 29 – is to transfer public domain classical…