This might be of interest. https://www.smule.com/ I think it allows musicians to work together on the web, but I have never used it.

 

Hello,

I would say both, not active now.
I have the HAM licence for about 40 years now, but where I live it is hard to install an antenna.
I have been playing the tenor horn (a small kind of tuba), but stopped it.
I have been singing and playing in an opera choir here : http://www.thalia-amsterdam.nl/site/ .
I have been singing in the church choir.
I have been singing in a classical choir here : http://www.kooramsterdam.nl/index.php/kek .

Bertus

 

Hey... maybe we should put something together... using Audacity or something similar... like a networked piece of music, or something...

Something like this?
https://playingforchange.com/videos/stand-by-me-song-around-the-world/
https://playingforchange.com/videos/stand-by-me-song-around-the-world/
https://playingforchange.com/
home page:
https://playingforchange.com/

 

Something like this?
https://playingforchange.com/videos/stand-by-me-song-around-the-world/
home page:
https://playingforchange.com/

I was thinking more in terms of composition... like someone submitting an idea, and the rest contributing with either addendums or additional melodic layers

 

I'm not sure how real time web collaboration would work, but I've done cross country non-real-time collaboration for many years now.

I wrote the words for this and John Tabacco did the music and production in New York....and it doesn't sound too much like it was put together by a committee.

 

Here's another John Tabacco production. The song was written by Nigey Lennon, who just passed away this year. We used to do garage band gigs in L.A. back in about 1970

 

I'm not a musician by trade, but I did my formal music training in classical guitar and cello for a decade and half (the cello training was 5 years).

What brings me to the fascinating world of microcontrollers is actually having knowledge of music. Once you know how to play a music instrument, you want to find many, many ways of making them on a microcontroller. The motivation is to keep learning and reading so that you want to build something that makes/plays music, on a microcontroller.

 

m2circuits and MrChips played together this past weekend:

 

Sort of #2.

I haven't played an instrument since the day I left high school. However I did work as a DJ for a while doing dances for weddings, proms and what not and was told I was rather good at it. (Shut up and play good music was all I did and people liked and thanked me for it a lot.)

 

m2circuits and MrChips played together this past weekend:

First guess this is a wedding. Almost can't hear over the people, Eagles is fun to cover. Hotel California reminds me of my first wife, she drove a Mercedes Bens also a White Witch. (Literally)

Guy on the Flying V did a good job on lead. It finally got their attention and they shut up.

kv

Edit: Thanks for the #post.

 

m2circuits and MrChips played together this

Are you the gray hair guy then?

 

Are you the gray hair guy then?

por supuesto!

 

m2circuits and MrChips played together this past weekend:

You're playing bass! ... I used to play with a band about 25 years ago, and played the bass guitar too! ... even did a few recordings ... that instrument is the "backbone" of the band.

 

#1 - limited to marine vhf radio.

When I was a young boy, my parents wanted me to play the piano. I took lessons for 2 years, before the piano teacher said:"I've never met a kid with so little sense of rhythm as you." When I told my parents that, they allowed me to quit.

It is neither for me.

@nerdegutta thank you so much for that - it is the hardest I have laughed in a week!

In my case, my parents spent $$ on piano lessons for my older sister for years...and she hated every minute of it. Then it came to my older brother, and it was the same. Then it came to me and they said nofreakingway!. Personally, I think they simply could not stand the thought of listening to a few more years of whining and tortured versions of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".

But I think they made a big mistake and I would have made an excellent musician. The only fly in the ointment is that I am completely devoid of talent. When I try to tune a guitar I can do it, but my brain does not seem to accurately distinguish between overtones and what the rest of the world calls the fundamental frequency.

Still, I have music in my head constantly and I listen to music constantly. With all due respect to Stefani Germanotta, I'm not talking abut the hooks that blatantly exploit my circuitry. I mean great music that is one of the great joys of life. When I see musicians like this perform I am absolutely dumbstruck! That is not simply muscle memory, we know that it requires recruiting of areas in the hippocampus similar to those used for language and the recruiting is done very early in life and in some kind of critical period. A fat lot of good that does me, I can't even wink both eyes.

But then, to consider writing something like Beethoven's 9th or yes, even examples of Hendrix or Miles Davis... and a host of others.. to hear those for the very first time in your head and then to get them out, well I am beyond dumbstruck.

It may, however, be the case that that if I were ever able to get that music in my head out to actual sound, I would experience a phenomenon not too dissimilar from my singing in the shower - sounds great to me, but apart from nearby dogs and cats, few others would willfully agree

 

Yeh, my parents sent my young sisters for piano lessons. I got none but ended up being the musician in the family.
I, like Paul McCartney, played bass because no one else was around to play bass. I think playing bass is the most fun of all the instruments.
I play piano, guitar and bass, all self-taught.

 

m2circuits and MrChips played together this past weekend:

I like the Lead Guitarist. He is really good.

From the right I can see the Keyboard, drums, Lead and Bass. But where is the Rhythm player?

I used to play Lead guitar in High School. That was over 40 years ago. We were using Hofner guitars and Vox Amplifiers and the echo unit was an endless tape with multiple heads. We played instrumental pieces from The Shadows, The Ventures and The Quests (a Singapore Group).

Now I am mostly playing Yamaha keyboards and I got a used EL25. Last week I played the PSR-S950 kbd and the sound is really fantastic. When I opened it up, the power audio amps are 2 miniature SMD Class-D chips mounted on the Digital Main board.

I also own an acoustic guitar and a Fender Squier STRAT.

Allen

 

I got none but ended up being the musician in the family.

I think that's more than just a coincidence, or the perversity of nature. I believe musical instruction turns off a lot of kids that might enjoy it otherwise. I never enjoyed "music" in school or playing in the school band. They never really taught the part of music that I later found the most interesting - learning to play by ear and with others in a real band. As they joke in bluegrass circles, I never learned to read music well enough to hurt me any.

I, like Paul McCartney, played bass because no one else was around to play bass. I think playing bass is the most fun of all the instruments.
I play piano, guitar and bass, all self-taught.

The bass player in my band may have been a better guitarist than the 3 guitar players (he was definitely better than me as a rock guitarist), but he was certainly a better bass player and he joined us without any competition for his slot.

 

Yeh, my parents sent my young sisters for piano lessons. I got none but ended up being the musician in the family.
I, like Paul McCartney, played bass because no one else was around to play bass. I think playing bass is the most fun of all the instruments.
I play piano, guitar and bass, all self-taught.

You're like one of my friends. He bought a Yamaha Electone EL7 and later he bought a new Yamaha piano. To encourage his daughter to learn piano. He also started to learn piano by himself.

I listened to him playing a piece by Richard Claydermen 2 years ago. And I can say he is at least 60% good. He can play classical guitars and he is good in reading the sheet music. Only thing is his hearing is not that good. He couldnt learn a new song by just listening.

Allen

 

To encourage his daughter to learn piano. He also started to learn piano by himself.

That is exactly how I learned, after getting a piano for the children to play.

Only thing is his hearing is not that good. He couldnt learn a new song by just listening.

Same here. I cannot hear anything above 3kHz. Maybe that's why I play bass.

 

Ok, I didn't use to be into Neil Young, but this one mostly Drop D tuning was done well. As a folk artist his lyrics laughable at times and then far to serious.

Anyway this Acoustic Version was great. https://www.amazon.com/Greendale-Live-At-Vicar-St/dp/B003WNTODQ

kv

Edit: If I was going to cover these I'd have my buddy "Phil" on Harp.