On Thursday I spontaneously joined the local community choir for two songs, just outside the Britannia Center. It was great! The songs were taught in a call-and-response fashion, and everybody was very welcoming.

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I decided to host a jam tonight at 8pm.

If you'd like to play with, please email or call 412-728-3176, and I'll give you directions.

As a good musical anarchist, I am not imposing any structure on this. We'll just have to see what happens.

Be ready to improvise, and see how it works out.

WikiTeX's music language is LilyPond, which looks very much like the RightThing. ... and I don't care much for sheet-music.

There is also a conversion program called abc2ly.

AFAICT, it's got everything become the open standard.

The Distorted Tunes Test (via patrissimo) is probably useful in music cognition research.

I got 26/26, unsurprisingly. I'd probably have some trouble with a rhythm test, though.

I've met people who call themselves tone deaf. I wonder how they would score here. So maybe people who can't sing in key aren't being reckless: maybe they just have bad pitch

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I'm running the trial version of SmartMusic. It's a very simple, and very cool idea.

Unfortunately, not all of their accompaniment features are that intelligent. For example, if you "wait-for notes" (marked as blue), then the accompaniment stops playing until it hears you play the note.


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I've recently learned "Sailor's Hornpipe". The whole tune reminds me of the Popeye tune other than "Popeye, the Sailor Man". Some parts of it remind me of the Brandenburg concerto.

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