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[#] Fri Nov 29 2013 15:02:45 UTC from fleeb

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You can try going to https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary and see if it'll show up for you.

If not, you might need to set up an Youtube account.

But, they do have terms and conditions for its use. If you can use it, great, but I'm not 100% sure from what I've read of the terms. I get the sense they intend for the music to be used in your videos, but they do say 'other content that you create', so...?

[#] Sat Nov 30 2013 22:36:22 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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danosongs.com is my go-to provider of royalty free stock music.



[#] Mon Dec 02 2013 03:40:52 UTC from ax25

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Looks like it can't be used outside of the youtube jail.  I will keep looking.



[#] Mon Dec 02 2013 04:05:12 UTC from ax25

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Sat Nov 30 2013 05:36:22 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored

danosongs.com is my go-to provider of royalty free stock music.



Thanks IG.  Some good stuff there.  Might just have to write something to fit what is available :-)



[#] Mon Dec 02 2013 11:52:31 UTC from fleeb

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I may give Dano a look as well. While I don't expect to use a lot of music in my videos, when I do, I'd like to find something that isn't as well known as the other stuff out there.

[#] Mon Dec 02 2013 12:51:15 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Big Butt Bear used to have a lot of danosongs.com music, but now that Wes is using YouTube's built-in video editor he tends to just stick with the music library that's already there. The intro/outro music for my famous generator video is also from danosongs.com

[#] Fri Dec 06 2013 14:13:49 UTC from Shazam

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I m going to be turning 37 soon. It really struck me when Ig said he knew how to play 4 musical instruments. How awesome is that? I know many people who can play at least one instrument. But I never learned any. And I was thinking, maybe I'm not too old to start. I know, most people learn as kids. But. Maybe I could try to learn something too.
Which instruments do you play, Ig?

[#] Sat Dec 07 2013 00:55:25 UTC from fleeb

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I know he played the flute, but I don't know what other instruments he plays.

As for me, I have played the following instruments before an audience:

Trumpet
Bass
Tuba
Euphonium
Bassoon
Tenor Recorder
Voice (Tenor, Baritone, and Bass ranges as needed, actual range is Baritone)
Percussion (odd instruments... but was in a percussion ensemble in college)

[#] Sat Dec 07 2013 16:55:04 UTC from Sig

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I played clarinet for a few years, then switched to euphonium/baritone
horn through high school. I filled in for the third trombone in our
jazz band with a valve trombone after he got kicked out of school for
drugs, but that was only for a quarter or so.

When the marching band mustered at college that first fall, I stood with
the sousaphone players, so I played tuba/sousaphone for a few years. I
couldn't afford the classes to actually take band (not being a music
major), so I just showed up every year for marching band. They didn't
take attendance or really do much paperwork; they generally didn't
figure out I wasn't actually signed up for band until I stopped showing
up at the end of marching season. I did this the last few years.

Around that time I started playing bass guitar when I inherited my
little brother's (he'd upgraded). I did this in a lackluster fashion
for a
few years. I started to get into it and practice more a few years
ago, added a regular electric guitar last fall. In the spring I bought
some drum sticks, method books, and a practice pad.

My kids won't lack for instruments if they're interesting in giving
something a shot. I'm not really GOOD at any of them, but I'm
fair-to-partly-cloudy on quite a few.

[#] Sat Dec 07 2013 21:38:58 UTC from fleeb

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Heh... I found myself eating brief lunches and attending the choir classes since I couldn't take two sets of music courses. I would have taken every music course available when I was in high school, but couldn't for obvious reasons (as in, I would not be permitted to, and two of the classes overlapped).

Since I had to choose between band and orchestra, I elected to take orchestra.
It was a better fit for my interests anyway. I didn't care so much about marching, just the music.

[#] Mon Dec 09 2013 04:22:03 UTC from Sig

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I enjoyed the concert stuff quite a bit in high school, but I was never going to be one of the A-list players in college and it was a pretty big time sink to take for no credit. I really wish I'd gotten into jazz band in high school a lot sooner, as I really enjoyed it during the half-quarter (eighth?) I got to do it. I suspect I was probably the only person on the field who enjoyed marching band. We had a pretty strong music program and marching was considered sort of "beneath" us, but the football program (read: alumni) wanted a marching band, so they got a marching band. We opted for fairly simple field work in favor of sounding excellent. For a marching band, anyway.

[#] Mon Dec 09 2013 04:24:36 UTC from Sig

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I took my wife to a Gershwin-themed concert from the Seattle Symphony a few months ago. I've had George Gershwin's Lullaby (1919? around then) stuck in my head ever since. The conductor had arranged it, originally a string quartet piece, for the orchestra, although there's one interlude where they cut to just the quartet. I wish it were available. I did find a decent '70s recording of the quartet version on archive.org which I recommend; there is only a little popping and hissing.

[#] Mon Dec 09 2013 15:29:52 UTC from vince-q

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When I was in high school (class of 1966, just after they invented electric light) my school did not have a string program. So it was band or nothing. And the rule was that if you didn't participate in Marching Band you could not be in Concert Band (long before litigation for disability-related discrimination - in fact I am not sure they invented overly-litiguous lawyers yet).

When I was in the 8th Grade, the Piano Teaching Nun told me to play clarinet in high school.
So when we (me and the parents) went to the Band Orientation meeting during the summer before my freshman year, and the band instructor looked at me and said "you are a trombone player" I said "Sister said I am to play clarinet."

You didn't argue with The Nun back then - in fact, if you truly value your life, you still don't argue with The Nun, but that is another story.

So I "held my ground" almost fifty years before George Zimmerman and ended up playing clarinet and bass clarinet through high school. Actually ended up liking it once I discovered the bass clarinet - a nice 'clunky' foundational instrument in B-flat.

But the tragic slant to all this is that my Band Director was Dr. Donald S. Reinhardt, who (unbeknownst to me at the time) was only the world's LEADING pre-eminent brass instrument specialist. Played principal trombone in the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski (including several Philly productions of Wagner's 'Ring' etc etc etc).

I learned conducting under Reinhardt a few years later.
Reinhardt learned conducting from Maestro Stokowski.
Stokowski learned conducting from Gustav Mahler.
Mahler learned conducting from Richard Wagner.

Which ("sorta") makes me a Conducting Great-Grandson of The Master (Wagner).
Direct lineage.
Actually, quite humbling and (at times) scary.
And yes - I feel most grateful and privileged.

[#] Mon Dec 09 2013 22:04:05 UTC from fleeb

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By contrast, I think my orchestra conductor had a drinking problem, and the band instructor had one of the least forceful personalities I've ever seen.

On the other hand, I mistook Moog for the janitor at college.

[#] Tue Dec 10 2013 01:51:29 UTC from zooer

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for Dylan fans: (It is interactive so you can change channels.)
http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html

[#] Wed Dec 11 2013 19:43:41 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Which instruments do you play, Ig?

Recorder (C and F), flute, guitar, keyboards, and a bit of teh drums. And I have a three octave vocal range.

And now for another emotionally scarring backstory from my childhood (yes, you may feel free to frame me as Dr. Heinz Doofenschmirtz).

As is the case with every child receiving a public school education in the People's Socialist Communist Republic of New York, I played the recorder in third grade. It's just a standard part of the music curriculum for that year, and I loved it.

Fourth grade came along and I was told that the instrumental music program was available to us and I could select an instrument and play in the band too. Naturally I said that I wanted to continue playing the recorder. And of course I was told that the recorder was not a band instrument and I would have to select something else.

And here's where it all went wrong. Mr. Salingo, the instrumental music teacher at the school, confidently told me that if I liked playing the recorder, I would like playing the clarinet.

I. HATED. IT.

I hated playing it, I hated practicing, to the point where I would deliberately break the reeds to prematurely end practice sessions ... at one point I started making tape recordings of myself practicing so I could play them back the next day behind a closed door, which worked great until my stupid bitch sister ratted me out.

So, one must ask, why did Mr. Salingo offer me a painful clarinet experience when he knew that a concert flute plays in the same key as a recorder, in the same register as a recorder, with almost exactly the same fingerings as a recorder? The only answer I can imagine is that he had it in his mind that the flute is a "girl's instrument." So I played the clarinet for a year and gave up on it, and missed out on what would have been some very cool band experiences in high school.

My stupid bitch sister, when she reached fourth grade, played the flute for a year, and gave up on it because band was just not her thing. But for some reason, the instrument found its way into our attic instead of back to the school or rental place or wherever it came from.

In college I picked up the recorder again and played with some very cool people in an ensemble. It was a lot of fun. We played in on-campus events and around the community as well. The instructor for the group was Professor Charles Scanzello, one of an extremely small number of people I can truly call mentors. He was scatter brained and disorganized, but he poured his love for music and community into everything he did. He was the one who encouraged me to pick up the F fingerings, which enabled me to play sopranino and alto recorders.

All this time, most of my friends were band people, mainly because my best friend was/is a guy who stuck with the band program and he was also the one through whom I met most of my other friends. I had longed to play in the band all that time. So one day I remembered hearing at one point that the fingerings for a C recorder and a concert flute were almost identical, and I remembered that my stupid bitch sister's old flute was still in the attic.
That summer I went home and taught myself how to play the flute.

The next fall I returned to campus and joined the marching band. And yes, I was the only male flutist in the band. Imagine that: just me, and a bunch of cute co-eds. And they were all my type. In fact, I ended up marrying one of them. So it's an emotionally scarring backstory, but one that eventually has a happy ending.
I do hope that Mr. Salingo is retired by now and not foisting his agenda on another generation of children.

[#] Wed Dec 11 2013 19:44:41 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Hmm, I should copy that over to my blog.

[#] Thu Dec 12 2013 13:38:56 UTC from fleeb

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Hmm...

With a clarinet, you have to actually cover the holes (instead of relying upon the keys to do it for you). I think it's the same with a flute, but I'm not sure. You hold it in a similar way to a recorder. But the reed... that's a huge difference. Having to get that reed to vibrate, and maintain an embouchure to keep it working might have been a pain.

Playing bassoon (a double-reed instrument... very different embouchure), I found I didn't like the wooden reeds as much as the plastic ones, which might be considered evil to purists. But I felt I had more control with the plastic reeds, and I never noticed any problems with my timbre for it.

Wait, with the clarinet, you don't have the half-holing business that you have with recorders, do you? That is, the hole 'in the back' of the recorder would sometimes require you partially cover it to hit a certain range of notes.

[#] Thu Dec 12 2013 15:06:50 UTC from Shazam

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I love Doofenshmirtz.

My dad plays flute and told me also that he was embarassed to play a "girls" instrument, till he realized that meant he was then sitting next to girls all the time.

I think music added so much to your life, and your sister just missed out, and it's just too bad for her.

I'm going to try to learn some keyboard with Adina, because she has one and would love to share it with me.

I've never even tried playing anything with a reed, but I've tried to blow the shofar and I'm told it hurts in the same way, so I can't imagine enjoying the sounds of music when you have to hurt to make the sounds.

[#] Thu Dec 12 2013 20:59:27 UTC from vince-q <vince-q@ns1.netk2ne.net>

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Somewhere on YouTooooob I found a vid of an all recorder ensemble along with about 8 or so singers doing ***all*** of the 4th movement of the Beethoven Ninth.

It was pretty. It was a bit unusual.
The musicianship was impeccable.
And I found myself really liking it!!

The moral? **Never** make snide comments or jokes about recorders. Real Music can be made with those things. And a good deal of that Real Music is Just Plain Marvelously Beautiful!!!

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