Tuesday, February 24, 2009

piano tab

piano tab this is imagine but there are others

biab practice in all 12 keys

biab practice in all 12 keys

the goal 5 rows of "Dm7 G7 CMaj7" played 4 times (OR 1 row of "Dm7 G7 CMaj7" played 20 times. Then the same for "Gm7 C7 FMaj7", and for "Cm7 F7 BbMaj7", and for "Fm7 Bb7 EbMaj7" . . . "Am7 D7 GMaj7" - all 12 keys. the MAColution

Write it out ONCE and then use the Prefs->Transpose window to set the thing to automatically transpose by your entered number of half steps per chorus repeat. (that would be the number 1)

Set the chorus number to 12 and there you go. 

Use an all MIDI style for this one. It is not only faster, the RealTracks will choke on that one.


--Mac 

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biab helpful suggestions

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Oliver Gannon's tutorial video, "Secrets of the Stylemaker" may help you out: 

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

SOS windows Tweaks For Music - Audio Tweaks That Work - And The Ones That Don't!

The Audio Tweaks That Work - And The Ones That Don't! part 1
Eradicating PC Audio Clicks
Vista audio tweaks that work — and those that don't.

What's the minimum set of processes needed to run Windows XP?


Windows Vista Optimization Guide

www.BlackViper.com: Home Page
PC Latency Checker

PC Latency Checker is a Windows tool that analyses the capabilities of a computer system to handle real-time data streams properly
CEntrance ASIO Latency Test Utility
nLite is a tool for pre-installation Windows configuration and component removal at your choice. Optional bootable image ready for burning on media or testing in virtual machines.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Free sheetMusic

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not all free http://www.sheetmusicdigital.com/  but There are 1001 digital records available for Elvis Presley Digital and Traditional Print Sheet Music here



Friday, February 13, 2009

How to find Styles that fit your particular song.

How to find Styles that fit your particular song.

#368 and #522 are finger picking and strumming patches. Right click at the top on GUITAR track from BB, and go to Assign/regenerate RT. When the page comes up, type 368 in the FILTER window at the bottom, and click UPDATE. This will come up if you have it. Listen to it at the top by clicking AUDITION wma. If you don't have it, just put GUITAR in the filter box, and it will pull up only guitars. Then choose a strumming one and a fingerpicking one and see if they sound good enough. 

band in the box advanced user questions.

band in the box advanced user questions.

Monday, February 9, 2009

m-audio win-7

I just figured out a bit of a workaround for it. I too have had ASIO woes under Windows7 Beta and i'm really glad to get this figured out.

Boot up your PC, press f8 during bootup and select the "disable driver signing" option. (That isn't exactly what it's called, i can't remember what it was).

Navigate to your temporary files folder with windows explorer. (Often C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Local\Temp). Delete all the folders named with curly braces. This will make it easy to find which folders have the extracted driver files.

Right click on the installer, go to "properties". Navigate to the "compatibility" tab, tick "Run this program in compatibility mode for" and select "Windows Vista" from the dropdown box. Press OK.

Run the windows vista 64bit SP1 driver installer for the Fast Track USB (Without the Fast Track plugged in). Progress through the installation until it gives you the same old "windows can't install this driver" error message.

Now LEAVE the installer where it is, don't exit the installer.

Check out the temp folders and two new folders (with curly brace names) should have been created. Look around in them for a file titled "M-AudioTaskBarIcon64.exe" which should be two folders deep. Right click on it and select "Run as Administrator".

It should then ask you if you want to install the hardware. Click yes.

The M-Audio taskbar icon should show up in the bottom right (if you have set W7 to show all taskbar icons like i have). Double click on it to bring up the ASIO panel. Plug in your Fast Track USB and after a few seconds, the status should show up as "connected".

I have tested ASIO out in FLStudio8 and it works perfectly. I don't know if it works with other DAWs, but i would assume so.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

using biab

using biab

*Don't neglect the EAR TRAINER in BIAB. Start with simple interval identification from the same root and play the game. Ten minutes a day or so is all it takes to develop a monster pair of relative pitch identifying ears. 

*I use BIAB for PRACTICE. Of all sorts. Drillin' on the changes, drillin' on things like the ii-V-I's in rotation, the auto transpose feature found in the Prefs for practicing a song in all keys in rotation, with BIAB keeping perfect time plus having a backup band of at least bass, drums and sometimes a rhythm part is super shortcut to getting it down right. Being able to up the BPM as you go and all just adds to the accelerated learning curve that BIAB can provide. 

**I'll never forget how much better I learned to time things after seriously using BIAB for less than one year. All of a sudden live musicians I was playing with were obviously rushing, slowing down at more difficult passages, the whole nine yards. But I was not, because I'd been practicing at home with BIAB.** <-- And that was a long time ago, back when BIAB did a lot less than it does today and soundcards with built in cheezy FM MIDI synths ruled the roost! 


--Mac 


How I make the Backing Tracks and use them on stage.

How I make the Backing Tracks and use them on stage.

Bob "Notes" Norton  Norton Music 
www.nortonmusic.com 
Power-User Styles & Fake disks for BiaB