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YouTube - The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
That video!
Free Piano Music!
High school teacher Gilbert DiBenedetti has arranged and typeset lots of beginner and intermediate piano pieces for download, with learning aids such as fingering recommendations. He also provides lots of music theory learning resources free of charge.
UltraNewb: How to move your iTunes library to an external drive - Apple - Lifehacker
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This method isn't the official one published by Apple - theirs still keeps iTunes' internal database files in the default location
Does anyone know how to move itunes music library from your computers hard drive to an external hard driv
Some tips on which files iTunes needs
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a few other internal iTunes database files and album artwork images have been left behind. This move you must make manually. So, quit iTunes, and browse to your original library location. Select the "Album Artwork" folder, as well as the iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml files and copy them to the clipboard. Browse to your new library location and drop 'em in.
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hold down the Shift key (Option on the Mac) when you launch iTunes. When it asks what library to use, click the "Choose Library..." button and browse to the iTunes Library.itl file on the external drive.
Sugar moves from the shadow of OLPC [LWN.net] - June 2009
Great interview with Walter Bender - gotta free up some hard disk space to install VirtualBox
First steps on keyboard No.1 - worksheet by Ian Cartwright Sibelius Music
This is exactly what I was looking for.
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Worksheets I have used for a number of years with lower school students in my school. The kids work through these at their own pace, they have proved very successful.
Tobin Music - Parents
Group teaching - musical literacy, not just keyboard
Open Directory - Arts: Music: Instruments: Keyboard: Piano: Education
Some links to browse
Amazon.com: Customer Reviews: Piano and Keyboard Method V2.0
Sounds like the creators of this computer application are onto something that could be developed further for home learning or feedback between professional lessons.
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As an instructor, I really like the step by step approach to the lessons. The video are very helpful in demonstrating techniques between lessons.
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I tried to do it with no singing accompaniment, but then there is no cue to start playing, so you have to get lucky when you start the lessons.
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Download a Zipped PDF copy of the JIXIS Instruction Manual here! (16 pages, 500 kb)
Another colour system intended to aid learning standard music notation. This puts a coloured label on every <i>second</i> white key, to represent a staff line, with additional blue stickers for leger lines. (Blue is also used for the second staff line.)
High C and low C (2 octaves away from middle C) are also green.
YouTube - ColourMuse Bk1 - How To Play Video - Intro.01 ( 2 minutes)
"My name's Char-ly I'm a cro-tchet Come and meet my Mu-m hi-!"
Seems a bit cheesy but I quite like the look of it.
I often see music notation in my head when I listen to music: will children see these characters and colours when they grow older, and will it increase their enjoyment, or interfere it?
YouTube - ColourMuse's Channel
There are half a dozen of these systems "based on years of research". How do we know how good the research was, or even what the outcomes were?
Teach Yourself Piano/Keyboard Overnight! (pdf - 7 pages - 1MB)
This seven page lesson seems to get into very involved explanation of major scales before teaching Mary Had A Little Lamb like this:
"Here are the notes for ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb.’
3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5
E, D, C, D, E, E, E, D, D, D, E, G, G
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I think it gets learning out of sequence
Buying first electronic keyboard for children » Piano & Synth Mag
We didn't see this buying guide when we bought a child's first keyboard, but it seems to endorse our decision of buying something inexpensive with lots of fun sounds to feed their interest.
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Thank you so much for this information. Have successfully labelled the keyboard using small round coloured stickers, using a different colour for each set of notes.
How to label and write notes on the piano keyboard: a basic guide » Piano & Synth Mag
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Add Sticky Note
The highlighted key in the diagram above is often called C (as in the third letter of the alphabet). It’s also known as “do” (from the do-re-mi scale that you’ve no doubt heard of from The Sound of Music).
The next white note to the right is labelled D
- This article focuses on the letter names for piano keys, and does not get into standard musical notation. - on 2009-06-14
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Practically, it’s probably worth using lightly coloured sticky labels that you can write the name of each note on and then stick either directly on each key, or above it on the casing of the instrument.
YouTube - hearandplay's Channel
some video lessons on pop keyboard and improvisation
SQUEAK User Group Birds of a Feather
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John Maloney: I want to say a few words about sound support.
It has always been a strong interest of mine. When I was a grad. student
I took a couple of semesters off and went to Carnegie Mellon to work for
free. Now I am getting paid for it. I first got basic access to sound output
driver, then tried to synthesize output in Squeak. Later on I wrote a midi
file parser. There are tons of files on the Web and you can get all these
free music. Here is a demo of a midi file with frequency modulation. (Cool
demo that sounds like switched on Bach). Speed can be adjusted. Wrote
a piano roll view. (Applause then demo starts to falter ...)
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