Via LifeHacker:
If you’ve always wanted to learn more about song writing and the structure of music, but don’t know where to start, this free online book is filled to the brim with pages that make understanding music theory easy.
Open Music Theory is an open-source, interactive, online “text”book for college-level music theory courses. This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom. That means that this text is meant to take a back seat to student music making (and breaking). It is not the center of the course.
A brilliant music hack using the equally brilliant Echo Nest API:
What is this?
For when your favorite song just isn’t long enough. This web app lets you upload a favorite MP3 and will then generate a never-ending and ever changing version of the song. It does what Infinite Gangnam Style did but for any song.
It never stops?
That’s right. It will play forever.How does it work?
We use the Echo Nest analyzer to break the song into beats. We play the song beat by beat, but at every beat there’s a chance that we will jump to a different part of song that happens to sound very similar to the current beat. For beat similarity we look at pitch, timbre, loudness, duration and the position of the beat within a bar. There’s a nifty visualization that shows all the possible transitions that can occur at any beat.
Lots of different versions of Kate Bush’s classic 1978 song “Wuthering Heights” on YouTube.
Kate’s original version
Kate’s “red dress” version
New vocals c.1986
Ultra Slow Wuthering Heights (36 minutes!)
Amazing – man sings “Wuthering Heights” in original key (that must have hurt)
Noel Fielding does “Wuthering Heights”
Angra
Pat Benatar
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
The Puppini Sisters
Wolfmother
Laura Bunting on “The Voice Australia”
Love this song. Keyboardist Dave Stewart programmed the drum parts manually. Insane.
KALOO CALLAY! There’s a new version of King Crimson heading our way! From DGM Live:
The 8th incarnation of King Crimson will be Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and Robert Fripp.
Writing on his (not yet published) diary for September 24th Fripp notes “The Point Of Crim-Seeing was of a conventional Back Line – Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Tony Levin and Pat Matstelotto – reconfigured as the Front Line, with Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and myself as Back Line.”
Robert goes on “All the Crims have expressed great excitement at the return to Go! mode. Given the considerable commitments of all members, it will take a year before Crimson is able to perform.”
Bill Rieflin mentioned to me that he told Jacknife Lee (REM and Robbie Williams’ producer) of the triple drumming, and Jacknife’s reply: Of course. We know what two drummers sound like! I’m hoping we’ll find out, and have a pile of fun doing so.”
In his (not yet published) diary for September 7th Fripp begins “dear brother crims, we have one year to prepare for action of the savage variety, and be in Go! mode for september 2014… but essentially, King Crimson is in motion.”
Robert expects that they’ll be rehearsing, in full and small group formations over that period.
I forgot what a great album this was. 25+ years after its release – “Feel it Again” from the album The Big Prize.
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