Music: Resources & Downloads

Are you self-taught?—Well this entire resource-page is most definitely for you!

Music is for everyone.

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“If it weren’t for dancing: I would have never made music; if it weren’t for sound design: I would be genre hard-stuck; if I were, you never have to be.”

—Doom Dudash

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Singing Resources

 

(Source: https://howtosingsmarter.com)

Solfège (Latin/Romance) System: in the Fixed Do solfège system—Do equals C, Re equals D, and Mi equals E —

- Alphabetical (English) System: uses letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G;

- German System: uses letters like the English system, but replaces B-natural with H and B-flat with B;

- Sargam (Indian Classical) System: Uses syllables Sa, Re, Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, Ni.

There’s still more if you do your own research using the words “speech pathology” and “consonants”; there are primary and secondary consonants that can be “layered together.”

(Source: https://literacylearn.com)

—Riffs & Runs: A E I O U; do every vowel, play it multiple times—

Try to make a warm-up and cool-down routine if you’re really going at it!

Not the same as a throat lozenge:

Here’s a reddit post about “vocal steamers vs nebulizers”: https://www.reddit.com/r/singing/comments/1jkym0h/vocal_steamers_vs_nebulizers/ (read up somewhere else on how to clean your stuff; seriously, learn to clean).

—[u/L2Sing]: “Steamers are generally recommended for singers.”:

“Nebulizers are generally used as a vehicle to deliver medication to the lungs.

They also require you to keep saline on hand, because you should not use water with a nebulizer.” (from reddit.com/user/L2Sing)

Videos:

— Quick Tip —

[Piano]: Try to learn how to walk through your major and minor chords first. Thus, you may use the spacing to easily walk through all keys and modes while: playing up then down, all 7 notes of your octave + the extra octaves (to further engrain the active recollection of tone-and-tune-to-muscle memory); spelling out to yourself the alphabetic-note—and/or, then, the solfège-note—that you are playing.

Furthermore, did you know that a lot of us learned to count better or best from playing the universal instrument we’ve called the piano?! Count your 3s your 5s your 7s and your +/- 2s!

A dragon once whispered to me that if I turned my piano around I would be able to accelerate my learning… Not by learning my songs backwards, but first and most patiently remaining wise to the process. Indeed I cannot afford a grand piano, so you won’t find me resting atop any such piano’s casing or rim. He must have meant a midi controller I believe… I can’t imagine doing this on an upright piano’s tall tail for a back (its backpost)…

[Guitar]: I advise players to lay their guitar body along them as you play it laying down, perhaps in bed. With the guitar laying along your bust, with the fret placed on your forehead: guitar tuned, pick-n-strum individual strings “while spelling out to yourself the alphabetic-note—and/or, then, the solfège-note—that you are playing.”

As you let each strum resonate through your physical body, you’re encouraging your ears and body to recognise these pitches. This stimulus, is one to self-employ intelligently, as you wouldn’t want to become overly sensitive!

As you simultaneous hear and feel the alignment of each string’s tuned frequency and doppler: furthermore, notice the changing harmonic “screams” (@danisophia.official) or dynamics resulting along each pluck or strum. The distances that each strum’s pluck has on that very same tuning’s tension is capable, and especially notable—on an electric guitar—to harness the extent of any string-under-tension’s harmonics. You’ll get an AWESOME screaming sound out of your playing!

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Piano & Midi: “The 'Plan'”

 

(Source: https://piano-music-theory.com)

Clef: Treble; sharps & flats.

(Source: https://offtonic.com/theory/book/1-3.html)

101: “How to read sheet music.”

Treble & Bass Clef: The Musical Staff’s “spaces” finger-layout diagram; for their respective staff position and notes (noteheads, stems, & flag/beam; there are also Treble-treble or Bass-bass Clefs on staves):

Treble Clef (G Clef)—

- Lines (bottom to top): E – G – B – D – F (Every Good Boy Does Fine);

- Spaces (bottom to top): F – A – C – E (spells FACE).

Bass Clef (F Clef)—

- Lines (bottom to top): G – B – D – F – A (Good Bikes Don't Fall Apart);

- Spaces (bottom to top): A – C – E – G (All Cows Eat Grass).

(Source: https://musictheorymanual.com/nrt-tonnetz)

“Tonnetz”: German, for a tonal net (a chord network):

Where you’ll apply your order of sharps & flats (the order of “leading tones”)… use this to read a “circle of fifths”—

[Order of Sharps and Flats]:

F – C – G – D – A – E – B || B – E – A – D – G – C – F (it cycles, as Naturals then of Sharps or Flats; read the entire section).

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Moving through the “order of sharps” goes up by perfect fifths; and,

Moving through the “order of flats” goes up by perfect fourths.

(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukulele/comments/1jvnfzu/songwriting_tips)

Circle of Fifths: Organizes the 12 musical keys in a circle where each step is a distance of a perfect fifth; “diatonic chord degrees by position.”

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—Play aloud play with your headphones, today nevertheless record yourself because you can! We learn faster.—

“The piano is the ultimate architectural plan (piano) for Western music. It lays out a flat physical plane (piano) of keys where the levels (piani) of pitch are perfectly mapped out for the human ear” (because piano in Italian translates to plan or floor in English).

“il piano del terrazzo” <=> “the terrace floor”

=> [Noun]: A plan, a project, a design, a physical plane, or a floor/level of a building.

=> [Adjective]: Quietly, slowly, smoothly, or flat.

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Tonnetz (by @mance_nk): “… this was really important in the 1800s especially to show what they called harmonic dualism; where a minor chord was the reflection of the major chord.”

e.g.: C-Major Chord (simply called a C-Major): {C, E, G} ({Do, Mi, Sol})

Terminology: ~“Transformations (keeping 2 notes the same and moving just one) — P-transformation, for parallel transformation (if C-Major, then its E to an Eb is a C-Minor chord; “C-Major’s parallel minor”). R-transformation, for relative transformation (if C-Major, then its G to an A is a A-Minor chord; “C-Major’s relative minor”). L-transformation, for leading-tone transformation (if C-Major, then its C to a B is a E-Minor chord; “C-Major’s leading tone”).”

  • Hugo Riemann (1849-1919; German musicologist and composer):

    • Formally speaking, today, if you are to use the word exchange instead of transformation, only one begets the term exchange. As it appears, it’s only the leading tone; called Leittonwechsel. My hypothesis or extension would be to say that if you are going to employ all 2 of these rooted Modulations, call it an exchange (where one is strictly a modulation; “When a piece moves through different pools of 7 notes one after the other, it is called Modulation.”)—

      • “if you are to use the Neo-Riemannian theory (employing a dialect and terminology directly translated from Hugo Riemann), you must use the original German-derived terms to be academically correct: Leittonwechsel, Relativ, Parallel.

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Cheat Sheet—Starter-pack: [Part 1] - “Major/Minor”:

  • Piano chords: major and minor - YouTube (THUMB(LH-G||RH-C) – MIDDLE(E) – PINKY(LH-C||RH-G): you can walk through all the Major by maintaining that position; upon shifting your middle finger down a “half-step” you can walk through all the Minor chords. Know your Major progression and you Minor progression “whole-halves” to immediately recognise that you can play through all 7 notes from those positions)—-stay disciplined!

    • Diminished (vii°): shift Finger 3 AND Finger 5 down 1 half-step (C – Eb – Gb);

    • Augmented: shift Finger 5 up 1 half-step (C – E – G#).

Cheat Sheet—Starter-pack: [Part 2] - “Playing the Roman Numeral Chords (I to vii°)”:

—Where, in desired preparation for using a chart like the “Circle of Fifths”; best if you’re gravitating towards a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)—

Take your root chord in “fixed Do”/C Major (C – E – G) and keep moving “those fingers” across the “white keys”, or up and along each scale degree (position of note in 7 note scale) of the C Major scale; at every next scale degree, its occurrences have their own name (see below) and each in of a chronological sequence will be your current or next Roman Numeral Chord (I - vii°)—

  • I (C Major): C – E – G. (Standard 1–3–5 major shape).

  • ii (D Minor): Move your whole hand up to D. Play D – F – A. (Automatically a minor shape on white keys).

  • iii (E Minor): Move your whole hand up to E. Play E – G – B. (White-key minor shape).

  • IV (F Major): Move your whole hand up to F. Play F – A – C. (White-key major shape).

  • V (G Major): Move your whole hand up to G. Play G – B – D. (White-key major shape).

  • vi (A Minor): Move your whole hand up to A. Play A – C – E. (White-key minor shape).

  • vii° (B Diminished): Move your whole hand up to B. Play B – D – F. Because F is a white key (instead of F♯), Finger 5 is naturally shifted down a half-step, giving you the diminished chord automatically.

Tutorials:

  • Yiruma - River Flows in You - YouTube (a beautiful song to follow along to. Recognise your scales as you play iconic songs; at times, take a minute to notice when songs are strictly constructed with the expected 7 notes of a scale and when notes voyage beyond).

    • The original piece is written in A Major (which shares its key signature with F-sharp minor).

      The 7 Notes: The scale uses the notes A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯ (it strictly uses one 7-note pool).

Make your own:

Browser/Webhosted Piano; sounds for Midi:

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What’s missing?—Tone Equal Temperment (TET), under the Equal Divison of the Octave (EDO)…

That’ll be for the Guitar section and “string theory” (see Tت。; and soon for guitar—Guitar: “String Theory”).

How fun!

This would also be the place to take our understanding of music and life/society or the universe: beyond!

There will also be a DJing section in homage of the transcendental reality that avid and extensive “AUXing”, playlisting, and tastemaking has provided us globally (DJing: from “Listener to Universal Tastemaker”).

If you see this and can work on it yourself… PLEASE BEGIN! <3

(TET under EDO’s application: its development, of its popularization and mastered compositional creations, shared — will become state of the art for its usefulness in completing the pseudo-science of “binaural” sounds. It will equally be extremely effective in handling our popular fallacy of “Music ADD” while considering the reality and inexhaustive list of possibilities alongside human disorders, symptoms will inch a little further toward a hope for a better therapeutic; of persons who’ve listened extensively, experienced ear fatigue “greater than audience fatigue per-say” and mishandling craft, skill, or mastery development; and the healthy innate or human physiological and anthropological balance of our individual consequential and genetic effort-reward feedback’s balance.)

You’ll see 12-EDO, 19-EDO, 31-EDO, and 53-EDO (which ironically would be part of a revolutionary lesson on sound design as well!).

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[Music Production] Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)—Resources & Plugins:

 

Ableton Live 12—

Billie Eilish - Your Power (Ana Whiterose Cover; Doom Dudash Remix).

—Try a Digital Audio Workstation, but beware of temptations that comes with prerecording. It’s also a must; prerecord: practice!—-

Digital Audio Workstations (music production):

  • FL Studio (my first);

  • Ableton Live (my current);

  • [Mac Only]: Garageband (“offered”, on mac; mac only; midi-to-score included);

  • Pro Tools (by Avid);

  • [Mac Only]: Logic Pro (mac only);

  • Cubase;

  • Reaper;

  • Studio One;

  • Reason (my older sibling breifly attempted this one with DJ Paride Saraceni when we were young; check him out on Spotify!);

  • Bitwig Studio.

Networking:

Free Stem-extraction/DJing (remixing):

  • VirtualDJ - The #1 Most Popular DJ Software (this is where I started my first spins, in my dorm room; before my first DJ controller).

    • There is no more need to do it manually; which resulted in many artifacts or sibilance, yet one might discover that with patience, even careful attention to artifacts may guide. Resampling can make leads, voices, basses, chords, percussions—anything! Where attempted, exploration even void of mastery may impart with a divination.

“Purchase A Template” sites:

Highly recommended to individuals learning music production’s the ins-and-outs; for tricks, stylings, and a genuine guaranteed hint at the sufficiently efficient and of good grace in professional formatting.

Plugins:

—I’ll be sure to seek out more free content, but for now I’m applying as much of my math, physics, and experience to make music with as many stock plug-ins as possible (even though Ableton’s stock-plugins hardly feels like it—huge leap on Ableton Live 9 2013-’18 stretch alongside Andrew & Emma Simper, as Cytomic); but please come-back soon for updates (or join along with me and have a read at Andrew & Emma’s technical papers as I did; try “Trapezoidal Integrated Filters”, for binary-stepped square or sine time-continuous real-world smooth: it all has character | compare “Trapezoid” to Simpson’s rule on composite sums; a sum-approximation as to that which makes the definite integral from a to b); these were for me, “the grain of salt” which made “the marmite-soup” (… bad french). Yes, the courage to lool up on the dithering algorithms built into Ableton (POW-r 1, 2, 3). That’s the algo which finishes a perhaps desired polish to our tracks with choice of “contravarient” noise. Know to be patient with those)!

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Games & Stuff

 

Typing:

Games:

Other:

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