Constructing a working copy of SCORE 4 – software preservation

SCORE is a historical music engraving program written by Professor Leland Smith and developed from 1987 to 2002. It was known for its high-quality results compared to other software available at the time, and its output inspired the Leland music font developed for MuseScore. The… »

Weinberg's Standardized Drumset Notation in Musescore

Here is a Musescore drumset file that configures the drumset engraving in Musescore to conform to Norman Weinberg's Guide to Standardized Drumset Notation:

• Full drum set

While in drum note entry mode, this file can be loaded by clicking Edit Drumset → Load.… »

LMMS MIDI percussion base note table

The table below shows LMMS instrument ‘base notes’ such that setting the base note will cause A4 (the default ‘percussion’ note) to play the corresponding General MIDI percussion sound. This is of particular relevance to soundfont synthesiers set to the percussion bank.

It's okay to cover Hallelujah ‘badly’ – Re Tantacrul, and the interpretation of music

In a 2017 video titled Hallelujah – How to Cover it Badly, designer, composer and music YouTuber Tantacrul (Martin Keary) explains how 40% of covers of Hallelujah are ‘bad covers’ and ‘[screw] up’. I greatly enjoy Tantacrul's content on the whole, but I couldn't… »

Ukulele chords from first principles: Part 2

In part 1, we derived all the common major, minor and seventh chords on the ukulele. We will now derive the remainder of the common chords – suspended (sus2/sus4), add9 (add2), augmented and diminished seventh chords.

Suspended (sus2/sus4) chords

We begin by considering the… »

Ukulele chords from first principles: Part 1

This post demonstrates the derivation of all the major, minor and seventh (major, minor and dominant) chords on the ukulele. This group of chords can be arranged in a simple sequence that aptly demonstrates the relationship between the notes of the chords and their fingerings. … »

Mapping table: Undertale soundtrack to in-game filename

The table below shows the mapping between Undertale OST track names and in-game music filenames. Where an OST track corresponds with multiple in-game music filenames, brace expansion syntax is used to represent the filenames.

All OST tracks are present in the game files, except 72… »

Starship (Starkid) official recording songs (direct links and timestamps)

Unlike some of their other recordings, Starkid's Starship (2011) is split into multiple parts, making finding individual songs difficult. Here are links to all of them:

• I Wanna Be: A1P1 2:21
• Get Back Up: A1P5 4:40
• Life: A1P6 1:31
• Life (Reprise): A1P6 8:31
• Hideous Creatures: