Resonance Fingerings

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The ZOEN Blog has a great article up on using resonance fingerings for clarinet.

One of the most problematic aspects of clarinet playing is achieving an even, fluid timbre across the instrument’s range, through all dynamics and articulations. Barring extreme altissimo, the most unforgiving notes on the instrument are the throat tones – F, F#, G, Ab, A, and Bb. They tend to be weak, stuffy, out of tune, hard to project, and unpredictable from player to player.

I ALWAYS play my throat tone Bb with the “resonance fingering.” It’s something I think I started doing in college while using a “crappy” Buffet clarinet they had (by “crappy” I mean it played the throat tones out of tune and stuffy).

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Launch Equity Acquires MakeMusic

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Launch Equity Acquires MakeMusic:

Today, MakeMusic announced that Launch Equity will purchase the company.  You can read MakeMusic’s press release here.   Launch Equity proposed the buyout last July (July 15, 2012), with the intent of taking the company private and then investing money into the company for a new CEO as well as updating software (particularly Finale’s base code).

(Via Technology in Music Education)

This is great news considering Avid is falling off a cliff and the development team of Sibelius was sacked and have started a new project with Steinberg.

However, this did crop up. Seems everyone isn’t happy about this. 

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Olympic Themes by John Williams

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John Williams is arguably one of the greatest composers. He has penned FOUR olympic themes, and you hear them all the time on the Olympic coverage. Enjoy!

1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

  Olympic Fanfare and Theme by John Williams (98.6 KiB, 97 hits)
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1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Korea

  The Olympic Spirit by John Williams (79.9 KiB, 44 hits)
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1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

  Summon The Heroes by John Williams (86.3 KiB, 40 hits)
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  Summon The Heroes by John Williams (85.6 KiB, 27 hits)
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2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

  Call Of The Champions by John Williams (100.2 KiB, 49 hits)
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Classic Jazz Music Stations – USA

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Came across this. There are several streaming radio stations that do jazz. Good stuff. Click the source link for more stations.

Classic Jazz Music Stations – USA:

Here are around 30 of the best full time “Classic Jazz” radio stations in the USA. They are broadcasting “live” from various locales across the country.  All these stations have been very carefully selected based the on quantity and quality of the jazz they play.   Just click on the station’s name and it you will go directly to the music.  Enjoy… 

 
 
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(Via Jazz Radio Online)

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