Music Definition and 434 Threads

I read the article about reading on paper and then also an article about cover songs... I appreciate the variety in discussions. We'll see where it goes from here.

Hi, I have a project for my Dynamics and Vibrations class and I wanted to do it on the vibrations of a record player. Does anyone know what equations would be most relevant? I know this is a very general question but the project is large so I'm still figuring it out! Any thoughts are super...

Here is having some pun with chords E F# A B , from E-major scale... These are some Jig Saw puzzle, for sure.

New to Western music theory.... About this concept of chord progressions -- is it that there is a large set of "officially approved" chord progressions for a given key (eg C major), and someone composing a melody will typically select a progression first, and make the melody conform to it? Or...

This is a cover of James South's "Games People Play". By no means do I have a finely trained ear, but it felt like the singing was a bit off key. On playing it a second and third time (because I am currently riding a hobby horse regarding vocal pitch control) it began to grow on me and sound...

Here's my fave. Back in 1973 I didn't know who was playing the instruments. Later I found out it was Catfish Collins on eguitar and his brother Bootsie on ebass. It never got better than this. The band lasted little over a year. When they were in Zaire the band asked for a raise, didn't get...

Phil Lesh, founding member of Grateful Dead and influential bassist, dies at 84 https://apnews.com/article/phil-lesh-dies-grateful-dead-491f2ca2727f4b16be0cca033a7b1b6f https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Lesh https://www.wyep.org/news-features/2024-10-30/grateful-dead-phil-lesh-bassist-obituary

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/04/entertainment/quincy-jones-obit/index.html Quincy Jones, musical titan and entertainment icon, dead at 91 R.I.P. As a Producer

I need to find more fans of them and would love to discuss their albums!!!! I really love ICIMI and it's most definitely my favorite out of all of them. Um, It's Kind of a Lot has such a chokehold on me and it's the most relatable song ever. I also love Mitski, Msi (not them, just the music), a...

Mozart String Composition, Believed Lost, Discovered in Germany (Pitchfork) "The string trio, probably written in the composer’s teens, was found in a library as archivists compiled an updated catalog of his work" Article...

Surfin' USA

Based on a post on another string this deserves one on its own. I have my own ideas, some are obvious, some less so. So I will kick things off with.....they wrote great tunes. The hardest thing in the music world to do, anyone can write a tune, ok tune even the odd good one. To consistently...

Hi, I'm starting a brand new thread for our favorite songs... (the last one disappeared some time ago, and we have to have a new one, I think :smile:) ..a thread for any genre, any style of music, as Cole Porter once wrote, anything goes... :smile: Anything Goes by Cole Porter I start with a...

Brand new to this forum, this is literally my first post. I shan’t bore you with a long winded chunk of text. (I’m not that interesting anyway!) I have no schooling or background in engineering of any discipline. I’m here purely to expand my knowledge base, get advice and hopefully make some...

The celebration of the anniversary of album releases rose with the advent of social media. For better or worse. Feel free to post important anniversaries of notable albums. The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation was released 30 years ago this month: Music for the Jilted Generation -...

https://apnews.com/article/john-mayall-dead-3401a63d6aeb43f58ed48145ba82b7c3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/07/23/john-mayall-blues-dead/ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-mayall-blues-legend-dead-obituary-1235066448/...

Hi guys CSIRO retiree interested in music and other things

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/01/1248565614/duane-eddy-rock-guitarist-obituary Rebel Rouser by Duane Eddy

He founded the band with Gregg and Duane Allman in 1969. One of my favorite tunes of theirs is the wonderful Blue Sky which he wrote for his girl friend at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/13/karl-wallinger-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/13/eric-carmen-obituary

Just hearing alot of this genre on retro FM radio. This genre originated In the late 1970's in Coventry, England. The local dj on this station , Top News Radio 93.5 FM is a Brit.

I just found out that Melanie Safka died a few days ago (23 Jan 2024), age 76. :cry: I heard her iconic song "Lay Down" when it came out in in 1970, of course, but didn't really understand the meaning back then. This is an extended version...

Music Playing: "Jive Talking", "Night Fever", followed by "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees. On Bee Gees Greatest. *Gets down off disco ball* We all do it. We all groove to it. Now admit to it! What do you shamelessly listen to?

What is the most esoteric (especially in the sense of specialized) music you own and recommend? To suggest one: Turkwaz's "Nazar". A set of Sufi devotional love songs. Assembled, studied and performed by doctors of music.

Is it better to study with or without music?

My clarinet teacher once showed me a trick: you can play any note and then sing a fifth above that note and it will create the illusion of sounding an octave deeper. On a different sub, I asked about this technique: It turns out that this is called saxophone growling. And it's no coincidence...

Just recently I became aware of this major remake of the Cat Stevens album "Tea for the Tillerman". I really like some of them, e.g., Sad Lisa: (Very good new version, IMHO.) Into White: (I absolutely LOVE the new version.) Others I really dislike, e.g., Wild World. Longer Boats started...

You already know about Crossroads and Red House, so skip those. Etsushi Ogawa [ 小川悦司 ] I like the way this builds so gradually. You also get to see Senri Kawaguchi wearing a Peter Pan collar. John McLaughlin -- Tokyo City Girl I dunno that anyone else will like this but it's my fave...

Here's one on his birthday today:

Lovebites I dunno that this great art, but it shure is entertaining.

Exclusively for musicians whose careers began in the 21st century. Sheena Ringo's Hi Izuru Tokoro [The Land Of The Rising Sun] from 2014. I think the whole album is great. Well her first single was released in 1998 and her career took off in 1999 but I'm gonna let that slide. Now she's one...

The musical style called fusion lasted only a few years in the West but caught on in Japan. I supposed that's natural for a nation whose symbol is a fusion-fueled fireball. The exponents were T Square and Cassiopeia, which are getting pretty old but still doing it. Their influence was mostly...

My daughter Lisha just released a single ‘Life Before Death’. If you are into soulful music with deep lyrics, would strongly encourage not to miss this one. You could click on the link below to listen to the song in your preferred platform. (Also there’s a lyrics video (YouTube) button in the...

Randy Meisner 1946-2023 Bassist and founder member of the Eagles died last week. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/randy-meisner-the-eagles-dies#:~:text=Randy%20Meisner%2C%20a%20founding%20member%20of%20the%20Eagles%2C%20has%20died,Eagles%20said%20in%20a%20statement.

This was an advanced system at the time (1973), my first programming job. Multiple HP 2100 mini-computers (1 is HP 2116), each computer mult-tasking, a database server for 160 users at the time I left the company. Underneath each mini-computers is a 10 MB hard drive used to queue messages...

Kazoo Keytar Harpiji Stylophone

I did not want to bump max in biology, so I stuck this here. So, my dilemma. I have a short time to learn 14 tracks, specifically for an Ozzy/Dio Sabbath tribute on drums. It is not that I have never played these live or never played them at all, my problem is I do not know the tracks! So...

A better forum for this should be in an entirely different one, not PF, but dedicated to music. Some pieces of music with different titles but from the same artist seem essentially the same music/or song but just different names. I believe I found two examples: Spudnik, and Surf Rider (Nokie...

I can't tolerate anything with a dominant quarter note bass drum. It makes me feel like a galley slave. Dammit, it's supposed to start at 2:08. It used to work.... Any pet peeves out there?

I like to mix together dance with other music. What I've discovered that there are three cases. Sometimes it looks perfectly natural even though the tempos and beats have no relation to one another at all. Other times it is necessary to change tempo so that there is a simple ratio like 4/3...

Our brains are apparently musically happy when different individual notes are harmonically related to each other. In our music system, the fundamental frequencies of the different notes on a musical instrument such as the piano or the guitar are related to each other in such a way as to allow...

We lost another great icon of the 1960's: Judith Durham of The Seekers https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/judith-durham-the-seekers-australia-singer-dead-obit-1393839/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Durham Most famous song was Georgy Girl: and my two favorites: It Doesn't...

Hi there. I start my final year of my computer science degree this September and, alongside other modules, will do an independent final year project. I have not had very much CS experience outside my degree so I am a bit unsure what would be feasible for me while not being too trivial such that...

What method do you use nowadays to listen to music while on the move? Are MP3 players even used anymore?