Musical Software for Real Musicians: Ten Musical Things You Can Do With a Computer, Even If You Hate Computer Music

Musical Software for Real Musicians: 10 Musical Things To Do With a Computer Even If You Hate Computer Music (Neil Clopton) - You can make any kind of music with a computer, not just electronic dance music, mash-ups or "computer music." Singers, acoustic and electric musicians at every musical and technical level have Free Software tools available to them to help with almost any musical task. Composition, notation, arranging, collaborating, demoing, preparing backing tracks, transposition and sharing can all be enhanced and accelerated with Free Software no matter your primary instrument, operating system, style of music or technical background. This talk will demonstrate a variety of specific tasks and tools helpful to a variety of musicians, but that too many musicians are not aware of or believe are for somebody else.

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1. Music Software For Real Musicians 10 Musical Things To Do With A Computer Even If You Hate Computer Music ➢ Neil Clopton ➢ djdualcore@gmail.com ➢ oldmixtapes.blogspot.com
2. About Me • Guitarist • Electronic Musician • System Administrator
3. Things You Might Want To Do
4. Lead Sheets • Used in • Jazz • Cover Bands • Contemporary church/worship music • Types of lead sheets – Melody and chords (jazz) – Melody, words and chords – Melody and words / Piano and words – Words and chords
8. First Day Of Practice... • Everybody but me reads music! • Use lead sheets with melody – Sometimes without chords • Play in different keys than the lead sheets – Keyboards has push-button transposition – Bass player transposes in her head
12. Quick Transposition
17. Mix Songs Together Like a DJ
20. Mix Songs Together Like a DJ
21. Simple Drums for Song-writing
22. Drums? • Enforce tempo • Experiment with tempo • Partially simulate full band • Force swing • Change “feel” • Unfamiliar time signatures
24. Organize Your Thoughts • Charts and Diagrams
26. Organize Your Thoughts • Outlines – Any Word-processor – Any Text Editor
28. Notation Software • Word Processor-like music editing in modern staff notation • Many advantages over staff paper – Mouse, keyboard, musical keyboard or file input – Copy and paste – Easily change keys – Search and replace – Audio preview
29. Notation Software • Rosegarden—http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ • MuseScore—http://musescore.org/ • Impro-Visor—http://sourceforge.net/projects/impro-visor/
31. Multi-Channel Recordings • Computer recording allows – Unlimited* total tracks – Unlimited* addition of tracks – Unlimited* versions/copies of each instrument – Unlimited* mics/mic placement • Every microphone sounds different • Every microphone position sounds different *Almost
33. Sound On Sound, Aug 2013, p107
37. Music Software For Real Musicians • Me: • Neil Clopton • djdualcore@gmail.com • oldmixtapes.blogspot.com • Resources: • http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/ • http://ardour.org/ • http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ • http://musescore.org/ • http://www.hydrogen-music.org/ • http://openavproductions.com/ • http://www.alsa-project.org/ • Search “transpose tool” • http://bandshed.net/AVLinux.html • http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ • http://www.soundonsound.com/ • https://www.xiph.org/ • http://mixxx.org/ • http://yoshimi.sourceforge.net/ • Search “[song title] chords”