I can’t imagine how long this took……
Tag: Sheet Music
Wither and die sheet music/music stands?
There are already several apps for the iPad for viewing sheet music PDFs, including apples iBooks. It makes sense, the iPad is just about the right size for viewing a page of music.
Now, there is a mount for iPads.
$39.95. Now we just need a Bluetooth foot peddle page turner…..for that price….
And for saxophone players, if you use this with a microphone stand, this also solves the problem of how to hear yourself….as in the iPad should provide some reflection of the sound back at you if you have it just above the bell. Wonder if that would mess with the microphone capturing one’s sound correctly…..I should get one and try it out….
UPDATE: Oh, the foot switch is coming!
iPad Sheet Music Page Changer
From Engadget:
“If you carry your sheet music in a laptop, AirTurn’s got a USB dongle for that, but if you’ve migrated your musical cues to an certain slate, never fear, Bluetooth is on the way. The AirTurn BT-105 will bring the company’s page turning technology to iPad, using a transmitter that attaches to standard professional footswitches, allowing you to turn full pages and half pages of sheet music while keeping hands firmly affixed to your instrument. Though there’s no word on price, we imagine it’ll cost close to the existing 2.4GHz version, which runs from $40 for a dongle to $100 for a package with two Boss pedals, and when it surfaces in Q4 of this year, we’re hoping it will extend bicycling input to all the other wild and crazy apps you dream up. PR and video after the break. “
Opens up a LOT of doors. For what it is worth, I have put a lot of stuff I practice on to my iPad, and it works great.
Eubanks Global Citizen Theme
Václav Greif just finished transcribing a Dave Holland Quintet song, Eubanks Global Citizen theme off the album Not For Nothin’. No transcribed solos, just the chart. Good stuff. Check it out.
Eubanks Global Citizen Theme (80.4 KiB, 112 hits)
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Miguel Zenon – Ulysses In Slow Motion
Vasik sent in this great transcription of Miguel Zenon on Ulysses in Slow Motion. Great stuff and great work!
Miguel Zenon - Ulysses In Slow Motion (100.1 KiB, 255 hits)
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Super Mario Medley
Ok, I decided to put this up. It’s an arrangement of Super Mario music I did last year. It is cool. Perhaps even cooler than Tank! Damn it, it is. It is MARIO.
Scored for 5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, guitar, piano, bass and drums. I make no promises on how good the guitar part is (my band does not have a guitar player).
Enjoy (donations are always welcome and an added incentive to put more stuff up!)
Super Mario Medley for Jazz Band (1.6 MiB, 1,206 hits)
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Look at all the downloads (41 as of 4/29). Not a single contribution. And people wonder why there isn’t more stuff up.
Save The Last Dance For Me
This is a transcription/arrangement I did for a Big Band I play with. The original Michael Buble arrangement this is based off of has guitar and a string section. This arrangement has no guitar and the string parts are in various instrument sections. If you enjoy this and want to see more arrangements up here, please consider making a donation (look down on the left).
Big Band and Vocals…..Score, 5 saxes, 4 Trombones, 4 Trumpets, Piano, Bass and Drums. I’ll have an audio clip of us playing it at some point. Enjoy!
Save The Last Dance For Me (1.4 MiB, 476 hits)
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Norbert Stein
I came across German Saxophonist Norbert Stein’s website today.
He has a TON of stuff up there for FREE. A comprehensive saxophone workbook (more like a book for free), compositions, CDs for sales (of course) and more.
Highly recommended. Check it out. He’s getting a place on my “sites” links.
Bolling Suite For……Soprano Sax
I recently transposed and modified 2 movements of the Bolling Suite for Flute and Trio for Oboe. It was a simple click of a button to make a version for Soprano Sax. Enjoy.
Edit: Updated in Dorico. Also included iPad versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_QOlCJUek&list=PL4_LMPDm3D7lG3VCfrnDiaOTkA27roR1K
Paper versions
Sentimentale (106.6 KiB, 159 hits)
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Javanaise (123.6 KiB, 151 hits)
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Baroque And Blue (127.4 KiB, 164 hits)
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Fugace (107.8 KiB, 92 hits)
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Irlandaise (60.6 KiB, 0 hits)
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Veloce (102.0 KiB, 0 hits)
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Verssatile (107.7 KiB, 0 hits)
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iPad versions
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Zinn Practice Regimen For Saxophone
Ok, I think this is the FINAL version of this. Last updated in 2005, this version took out some stuff I had in there, and put in some stuff I have been practicing lately (triad things). 32 Pages of Saxophone goodness.
It is FREE and available here
Zinn Practice Regimen For Saxophone 2009 version (1.8 MiB, 812 hits)
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and via Lulu here
Plus you can buy a copy for about $13 if you want something already bound and what not. Expect an update to the II-V patterns soon…..it is gonna be HUGE.
Oh, and that is a Conn-O-Sax on the cover. Why? I dunno, it looks cool….thats why!
II-V-I Patterns
I have updated the II-V-I patterns yet again. I consolidated some of the other patterns I had (like the Ray Brown ones). There are now 286 pages (or 286 4 bar patterns in all keys) to enjoy. Also gone is the Jazz Font. I am in favor of a more clean, professional look using Bill Duncan’s Fonts for Finale for this going forward.
II-V-I Patterns in Bb (4.6 MiB, 12,508 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Bb Pages 1 to 100 (1.7 MiB, 11,499 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Bb Pages 101 to 200 (1.9 MiB, 10,985 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Bb Pages 201 to 289 (1.6 MiB, 11,001 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Eb (4.7 MiB, 11,715 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Eb Pages 1 to 100 (1.7 MiB, 10,434 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Eb Pages 101 to 200 (1.9 MiB, 10,357 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns in Eb Pages 201 to 289 (1.6 MiB, 10,924 hits)
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II-V-I Patterns Reference (600.9 KiB, 12,107 hits)
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These patterns were designed to be used with Aebersold Vol. 3, Track 2. Also included is a 24 page reference of the patterns.
Zinn Practice Regimen For Saxophone III
NOTE – An updated version of this Regimen is available here
One of the most downloaded things on Jazz-Sax.com is the Zinn Practice Regimen. It was inspired by Daniel Zinn, master saxophonist/woodwindist when he took over saxophone instruction at CSUH about 10 years ago.
I updated it a couple of years ago, and I’ve updated it again. Changed the font, clean it up and came up with some new ideas to maim, I mean break, I mean develop fingers and skills. This is probably the last revision of it, as I think it encompasses all that I want it to, and takes about 30 minutes to play through. Enjoy
Zinn Practice Regimen III (592.7 KiB, 52,851 hits)
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Keeping Track Of Your Stuff
Being a musician, one tends to gather a lot of “things”. CDs, books, magazine articles, posters, pictures, autographs, etc, etc, etc. How do you keep track of all them?
If you decided to “rip” all your CDs to a program like iTunes, then you have a nice, easy to use list of what you have. But what if you DO NOT or CAN NOT rip all your CDs. Like you don’t have the space, nor really want to have all your stuff on the computer? And what about books?
One answer on the Macintosh is Delicious Library. Using UPC codes found on most everything, it can easily catalog your “stuff”. However, there are some problems……
First, Delicious Library is not the only product out there that can look up and catalog items. Bookpedia, Media Collector, and probably a myriad of other programs on both the Mac and PC. Most all these use some sort of Database to look up the UPC or ISBN numbers off the book. Delicious Library uses Amazon.com to look them up. Some of the other programs can use other databases to look stuff up. Is it necessary? Perhaps…..
Delicious Library can use a bluetooth (ie: wireless) scanner to scan in UPC codes. This works GREAT. It’s very cool. And a HUGE time saver if you have a lot of “stuff” like I do. To scan 200 DVDs, it took about 15 minutes. To scan a couple hundred CDs (451), about 30 minutes. All wirelessly, all right to the computer. However….
Not everything has a UPC code. And not everything has a UPC code that can be found off Amazon.com. If you are part of BMG Jazz club you get CDs that don’t have a standard UPC code. It has some sort of BMG code on it. Resulting in a failed lookup on Amazon. But if it does have a UPC code, it works very very well. CDs I bought in the 90s work. Delicious Library finds it, adds the album art, and info to your collection. Easy.
Books are a mess. 9 times out of 10 the UPC code failed to find the book. However, ISBN numbers 9 times out of 10 WORKED. But you have to enter the ISBN number manually. That is a pain. But it works usually.
Hal Leonard sucks. Just 90% of the books I have from them, have their own custom UPC or they fail to be looked up properly. Shame on you Hal Leonard. If the book has an ISBN, it seems to work mostly. Oh…..and Warner Brothers. You guys are in the same boat. Get the UPCs happening.
Aebersold. Aebersold does not seem to have UPC codes at all. None of the books I own have a UPC. Books like “Around The Horn”, “The Augmented Jazz Scale”, etc have NOTHING. No ISBN, nada. I do think my latest purchase from Aebersold, Vol. 112 – Cole Porter has a UPC on it. It was not found on Amazon.
I’m not going to mention all the other pieces of Music I have that have nothing on it. All those classical Sonatas for Flute/Clarinet/Sax, etc. These are all manual entry things. Not fun.
For people with a lot of stuff that can be bar code read, programs like Delicious Library rock. However, if you have stuff that is NOT bar-coded nor have ISBN numbers, this program is pretty much useless for you. I think if this program could create a printable bar code and increment it, that would make the program 50 times more useable. Or even if it printed a UPC for items (like Books) where the UPC isn’t found. Then this program would be an elegant, functional organizer.