By Kenny Werner
http://www.artistshousemusic.org/node/5368/3433
Bohlen-Pierce scale
- Scientific data for the BP tuning on a clarinet: http://www.sfoxclarinets.com/bpclar.html
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohlen%E2%80%93Pierce_scale
A beautiful performance by Elaine Walker
Computer Music 2011
By Brad Garton and Bryan Jacobs at Columbia University
http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/courses/g6610/fall2011/index.html
Software examples: http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/software/index.html
playing piano without sound
An improvisation exercise: Easiest with keyboard Midi controllers. Two or more people play keyboards together, but with no sound output. The Midi is recorded for playback. Keep practicing until it sounds good.
You could also do this with acoustic instruments, or an entire band, if you had really good hearing protection to block the sounds for the players but not the recorder.
http://www.howardleight.com/ear-protection/noise-blocking/noise-blocking-earmuffs
Variation: Using closed cell headphones, all the musicians would be hearing the same soundtrack, for example, “Free Bird”, but unable to hear the instrument they are playing
pop chord progressions
I, V, VI-, IV
variations:
- I, III-, VI-, IV
- VI-, IV, I, V
An academic explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-punk_chord_progression
And this…
Oblique strategies
By Brian Eno
- an online version: http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html
- Another one: http://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/
guitar lists
Top songs, riffs, solos, etc.,
By various sources
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/50.html
Drawing by Vegetarian Squishy
jazz transcriptions
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music
Primitive power of pentatonic patterns.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html
http://youtu.be/DBJ7mBxi8LM