How to Notate Chords to Lyrics Guitar tablature is great when you need it. Standard musical notation provides a lot of information about playing a… Read More »How to show Chords with Lyrics – ChordPro Format
I wrote about ABC Notation in the blog over a decade ago. The software that can use ABC has greatly improved, but the basics of… Read More »ABC Notation
There are many things you and I should be doing to improve our music skills. I know what these are, but I often ignore them.… Read More »Try Transcrbing Leadsheets
One of the best ways to learn an instrument is to figure out the solos of the musicians you love by listening to them. I… Read More »Play-along to learn and practice
The internet and software are making printed fake books seem quaint. I have five (or six) printed volumes of the Hal Leonard “Real Book”. I… Read More »Software Real Books, Fake Books and Music Collections
It’s been almost 3 years since I wrote about software for creating chord and scale diagrams. I’ve recently been using software for this task that… Read More »Fret Diagram Software – Update 2014
I used Band-in-a-Box (BIAB) for years and loved it – mostly. But I hadn’t upgraded since BIAB 2007. That version is on an old Windows… Read More »Review: Band in a Box (BIAB) 2013 for Mac
I’ve been looking for a good replacement to Band-in-a-Box. The gold standard for automated accompaniment software is Band-in-a-Box from PG Music. You type in the chords to… Read More »Software Backing Band
I recently reviewed iPad apps for musicians. I’ve also mentioned Android apps I use on my smartphone such as gStrings, a chromatic tuner I always… Read More »Chrome Browser Apps for Musicians
I don’t have any trouble transposing a simple tune with C, F and G7 chords into most any other key. When I was younger I… Read More »How to Transpose Chords to a Different Key
