Music died when folks stopped singing and playing musical instruments and left music to the "experts".
Yeah, that too. I'm not sure the last time I played recorded music. I know the reason I did so was to learn a fiddle tune well enough that I didn't need to listen to a recorded version anymore.
The time before that it was to learn a song to sing, but if I want to hear it I go ask the delightful young woman who wrote it to sing it for me. She usually obliges and I might well add some harmony:
By my definition "personal computer" and "Personal Computer" have totally different meanings.
I'm not responsible for your definitions. PC is simply an abbreviation for "personal computer" and that's the way IBM used it. IBM did not sell 5150 "PC"s. They sold "IBM PCs."
. ..it was the IBM-PC (and later, the "100% compatibles") that truly brought PCs to every household...
I don't think I have ever met a household IBM. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, but householders rarely need to worry about getting fired. Personally I bought a Compaq transportable and a Tandy Desktop.
First picked up a guitar nearly 50 years ago now. Professional performer on same for 30 years, teacher for 20.
. . . the list of chords is just an aid.
Well, OLGA supplies more than just lists of chords and as any guitar player will tell you if you have good knowledge of the song you don't really need the chord list to begin with, you can hear them, although yes, the list can be a learning aid.
You could also say, however, that you don't really need a script to learn a play, just a recording, but try telling that to the script publishers if you post one online. They're covered by copyright.
Sure, it's the display equivelent of the megahertz war. Try to buy a new 486, just because that's what you want and need. Bigger, better, faster, more. Grab market, rinse and repeat.
The difference in the display market is that there are several makers on nearly even footing, so the competition is supercharged.
The ear is not just that thing on the outside of your head. The nervous system is part of the ear. Sound as you percieve it happens in the brain, not at the eardrum. The brain remembers what it heard. You can "play" music in your brain because your brain contains a sound recording of what you heard.
Beethoven could compose when he was deaf. He could "hear" what he was writing because his brain could reproduce a the sound, even though his "ear" could not.
No, but musical sense died about the mid 1800s when equal temperment tuning first became the de facto standard, but if you've never heard music actually played in tune you'd never know that. In fact you'd likely think it was out of tune. . .
. ..because the piano has killed your musical sense. It is fundamentally out of tune, but nearly all of our music is played to match it, one of the few exceptions being solo fiddle and even that is beginning to die, because modern fiddle players are taught to match the piano even when they're playing solo.
The piano killed musical sense, the electronic tuner is kicking the corpse.
Olga (and similar sites) do not publish recordings of songs
They don't? Then how is it you can learn to play songs from them?
Notation is a recording. The very musical recording copyright was invented to protect. The recorded music business predates sound recording by hundreds of years.
Kids these frickin' days. Your factory fed tech brain is ruining your good sense.
You don't make a living selling sheet music. Sheet music is just as much a recording as is a sound recording. Before the invention/wide distribution of sound recordings sheet music was the recorded music business and there's still money in it. The popular jazz fake book once had to be distributed by samizdat sneaker net, because it was just as illegal as a home burned CD to distribute.
Jay Ungar makes a good deal of his living from selling the sheet music for that fiddle tune he wrote, downloading it rather than buying it really is taking food from his mouth, although why one would need the sheet music for it is beyond me.
Music is sound, not notation. The ear is the proper organ for sound, not the eye.
The correct way to use notation is to "hear" it in the mind's ear and play from that, so the first thing you need to play well from notation is a really good ear. . . backed up by music theory so you know what it is you're hearing; and why.
But I advise beginning to learn your theory with a monochord and a yard/meterstick and moving on to a one octave koto/dulcimer, tuning your intervals by ear. The piano has been the death of musical sense.
The great thing about the Internet is the way it allows people of all nations, all ages and all backgrounds to miscommunicate with each other.
I don't know who, where or how old you are. If you don't know the joke I used, which is quite possible; and that it is a joke, it would necessarily go over your head. It might have helped to have read a bit of Dave Barry to understand the cultural meaning of the phrase "I'm not making this up," which implies that "I'm not making this up," but. . . there is a joke in here somewhere.
And my own sense of humor is, shall we say. .."peculiar."
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Who did not already understand that floats are approximations?
Read the very first sentence of the article.
Apparently that would be "we all," Whitey.
Perhaps the rest of the article got better, but I admit I didn't read it. My eyes went all blurry from the tears.
KFG
So far as I can tell, remedial shoelace tying and staying inside the lines. 50% is a passing grade.
Of course these are only electives for humanities majors; who produce most of our published statistics.
KFG
I'd like to see you make a one-bit-long file.
This not the appropriate media for that.
Go ahead, try!
But I tried, succeeded; and when run the display indicates a value of "true."
The way your computer works is not indicative of what computers can or cannot do.
KFG
I've been holding back on upgrading to LCDs at the office because the resolution just wasn't there . . .
Q.E.D.
KFG
No you can't, computers manipulate and store data by the byte.
That may well be true of your computer, but I've got one right in front of me that manipulates data by the bit.
It's even got several of them.
KFG
a) how big the compressed size was
18MB
b) how many bytes was wikipedia before it was compressed
A sample of 100MB
Your goal:
.
KFG
As wonderful as it would be if all software was completely bug free and contained no security holes, it's simply impossible.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a patch software?
KFG
. . .my ThinkPad... it runs Linux and is a multiuser system.
How many users are logged in?
KFG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Defence
KFG
I read that first as "historical document."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/
KFG
Music died when folks stopped singing and playing musical instruments and left music to the "experts".
:)
Yeah, that too. I'm not sure the last time I played recorded music. I know the reason I did so was to learn a fiddle tune well enough that I didn't need to listen to a recorded version anymore.
The time before that it was to learn a song to sing, but if I want to hear it I go ask the delightful young woman who wrote it to sing it for me. She usually obliges and I might well add some harmony:
http://www.myspace.com/almostawakemusic
If you can't catch her at a live show, ummmmmmmmmmm, buy a CD or something.
KFG
By my definition "personal computer" and "Personal Computer" have totally different meanings.
I'm not responsible for your definitions. PC is simply an abbreviation for "personal computer" and that's the way IBM used it. IBM did not sell 5150 "PC"s. They sold "IBM PCs."
KFG
. . .it was the IBM-PC (and later, the "100% compatibles") that truly brought PCs to every household...
I don't think I have ever met a household IBM. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, but householders rarely need to worry about getting fired. Personally I bought a Compaq transportable and a Tandy Desktop.
KFG
No, an IBM compatible PC is, by definition, IBM compatible.
A PC is, by definition, a single user computer.
KFG
As any guitar player will tell you. . .
First picked up a guitar nearly 50 years ago now. Professional performer on same for 30 years, teacher for 20.
. . . the list of chords is just an aid.
Well, OLGA supplies more than just lists of chords and as any guitar player will tell you if you have good knowledge of the song you don't really need the chord list to begin with, you can hear them, although yes, the list can be a learning aid.
You could also say, however, that you don't really need a script to learn a play, just a recording, but try telling that to the script publishers if you post one online. They're covered by copyright.
KFG
Sure, it's the display equivelent of the megahertz war. Try to buy a new 486, just because that's what you want and need. Bigger, better, faster, more. Grab market, rinse and repeat.
The difference in the display market is that there are several makers on nearly even footing, so the competition is supercharged.
KFG
Why does the article say I'll be offended?
It doesn't.
I'm not offended by these.
Q.E.D.
KFG
. . .hilariously non politically correct. . .
Think back, Dude, and I think you will discover that it defined political correctness of the time.
It's a remarkable cultural document.
KFG
Your mind's ear?
The ear is not just that thing on the outside of your head. The nervous system is part of the ear. Sound as you percieve it happens in the brain, not at the eardrum. The brain remembers what it heard. You can "play" music in your brain because your brain contains a sound recording of what you heard.
Beethoven could compose when he was deaf. He could "hear" what he was writing because his brain could reproduce a the sound, even though his "ear" could not.
KFG
So music died in the 1700s?
.because the piano has killed your musical sense. It is fundamentally out of tune, but nearly all of our music is played to match it, one of the few exceptions being solo fiddle and even that is beginning to die, because modern fiddle players are taught to match the piano even when they're playing solo.
No, but musical sense died about the mid 1800s when equal temperment tuning first became the de facto standard, but if you've never heard music actually played in tune you'd never know that. In fact you'd likely think it was out of tune. . .
. .
The piano killed musical sense, the electronic tuner is kicking the corpse.
KFG
Olga (and similar sites) do not publish recordings of songs
They don't? Then how is it you can learn to play songs from them?
Notation is a recording. The very musical recording copyright was invented to protect. The recorded music business predates sound recording by hundreds of years.
Kids these frickin' days. Your factory fed tech brain is ruining your good sense.
KFG
I still fail to see the harm in guitar tabs.
You don't make a living selling sheet music. Sheet music is just as much a recording as is a sound recording. Before the invention/wide distribution of sound recordings sheet music was the recorded music business and there's still money in it. The popular jazz fake book once had to be distributed by samizdat sneaker net, because it was just as illegal as a home burned CD to distribute.
Jay Ungar makes a good deal of his living from selling the sheet music for that fiddle tune he wrote, downloading it rather than buying it really is taking food from his mouth, although why one would need the sheet music for it is beyond me.
KFG
Learning how to read music . . .
.is mimicry, done wrong.
. .
Music is sound, not notation. The ear is the proper organ for sound, not the eye.
The correct way to use notation is to "hear" it in the mind's ear and play from that, so the first thing you need to play well from notation is a really good ear. . . backed up by music theory so you know what it is you're hearing; and why.
But I advise beginning to learn your theory with a monochord and a yard/meterstick and moving on to a one octave koto/dulcimer, tuning your intervals by ear. The piano has been the death of musical sense.
KFG
>>Has it ever occured to you that those reams of legalese might be the source of your real problems?
>Only when I forget to take my anti-psychotics.
Indeed, that's why they give them to you.
KFG
The great thing about the Internet is the way it allows people of all nations, all ages and all backgrounds to miscommunicate with each other.
."peculiar."
I don't know who, where or how old you are. If you don't know the joke I used, which is quite possible; and that it is a joke, it would necessarily go over your head. It might have helped to have read a bit of Dave Barry to understand the cultural meaning of the phrase "I'm not making this up," which implies that "I'm not making this up," but. . . there is a joke in here somewhere.
And my own sense of humor is, shall we say. .
KFG