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Learning Violin Using SoundSlice

@date=2024-11-05
@tags=music, music-playing
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I have been learning violin for about 2 years now, on and off, and I can reasonably play some basic stuff from sheet music.

Sometimes though, for more complex pieces, it is tricky to get a feel for how the notes match up to the actual expected way the song can should sound.

I have been using
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Rolling Stone 500 greatest albums merged

@date=2024-06-28
@tags=music

Someone posted up the various differences between different years that Rolling Stone released their top 500 albums of all time here: https://beckchris.com/2020/10/14/rolling-stones-500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-lists-an-analysis/

I took that and created a spreadsheet so you can do some sorting...

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Music has become a zero-sum game

@date=2024-05-31
@tags=economics, music

Musicians used to make money via album sales (records, tapes, cds, mp3s, etc). This is how they exploded financially by selling millions of copies.

Today we have streaming, such as Spotify, as the main avenue to make money as a musician. This is a very different economic situation.

In the initi...

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Downloading youtube videos

@date=2023-11-21
@tags=youtube, videos, music

If you ever have a need to download some video from youtube, this is the best tool I found: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

It gives you lots of options for output sizes and types and can download channels and playlists.

On Nostalgia In The Evolution of Music

@date=2022-02-14
@tags=music, philosophy

I looked up 2000's music yesterday on spotify. I am a child of the 80's and 90's and when I listen to music, I really lean heavy into those decades, and like most people when they hit middle age, they tune into the newest music on the radio, and feel that the music of their childhood is way super...

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Butchering the basics

@date=2018-02-01
@tags=music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URkGWoNTDlA

Cool, I love Bjork

@date=2015-01-25
@tags=music

Cool, I love Bjork

Bjork in the New York Times Magazine

http://whowillsaverockandroll.blogspot.com/2015/01/bjork-in-new-york-times-magazine.html

Full vinyl albums on youtube

@date=2014-06-19
@tags=youtube, music

This will list  recorded full albums on YT

full album vinyl - YouTube