When I was heavily involved in music education I longed for a tool to create music notation in a browser. I even started a little development with a colleague but we never got anywhere near the service now offered by Noteflight. Here’s a basic example (I can’t embed it with WordPress, only link to it.)
It’s in beta at the moment but my simple 4 bars were easy to create with intuitive tools. As a demonstration tool of musical examples (chord movement, melodic shapes – many things related to music language) it is invaluable. The sounds are basic and playback lacks any finesse, but that is true of notation packages, where the look is the priority and the sound provides the bare essentials of pitch and rhythm.
Categories: elearning · music_education
Jobs come in, we turn them round, and they go, then sometimes (forgive me!) we forget about them. And months down the line they pop up, neat and tidy and finished.
This week I came across 2 albums of production (library) music released by West One Music that I’d worked on and are now all shiny and topped off! One is ‘Inspired‘ by Jay Price and the other ‘Cinematic Strings and Beats’ by Caspar Kedros and Scott Doran.
It’s still immensely satisfying to hear the completed mixes, as when we’re playing on the tracks they are in a work-in-progress state and my contributions tend to be a library of string ideas and files that could end up anywhere in the arrangement and mix. And it’s not until you hear the completed track that all the elements make sense. Now, I’d just like to hear them plastered all over some tv broadcasts.
Categories: string_arranging
