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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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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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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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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.
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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URkGWoNTDlA
Cool, I love Bjork
Bjork in the New York Times Magazine
http://whowillsaverockandroll.blogspot.com/2015/01/bjork-in-new-york-times-magazine.html
This will list recorded full albums on YT
full album vinyl - YouTube