Little Music Note

May 11th, 2009 by Jon

RadioSure – an awesome radio streaming application for windows; It contains the most popular radio station around the world. You can listen and record any songs on the fly. Most important of all, you can find radio stations for all the continents. 

Here are some of the features:

• More than 12000 of stations in one application.
• Supports most of the internet radio formats – mp3, wma, ogg vorbis, aac+ and so on
• Quick and reliable search for your favorite radio stations
• Smooth switching between stations including cross fade effect
• Recording what you are listening to and packaging it into separate song files
• Simultaneous recording of multiple stations
• Automatic checking for software and radio stations updates
• Command line parameters for automatization
• Runs on Windows XP and Vista 32 and 64 bit
• UNICODE support – all domestic stations are perfectly visible and searchable
• And much much more… 

Try it out, you will definately be amazed! 

Download the app here [windows only]

May 10th, 2009 by Reb

Corrinne May, born January 19, 1973. She is s a Singaporean singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles.

Corrinne May majored in mass communications and English literature at the National University of Singapore. Later, she left Singapore to further her music education at the Berklee College of Music, where she majored in songwriting and film scoring. In order to pursue her dreams in music, she moved to Los Angeles in 1999. Here is a example of someone who has followed her dream in becoming a successful songwriter and music producer.

Some of you who watches Taiwanese drama might know her by her song “Journey”  in Love at the Dolphin Bay a few years back. In September 2004, Corrinne May became the first (and only) artist singing exclusively in English, to be signed by the record label Forward Music in Taiwan, which distributes her music to Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and China.

Corrinne has been playing the piano since the age of 5, and is also proficient with the guitar. On 11 February 2005, The Straits Times interviewed May, who related that being a devout Catholic, “much of her music has been inspired by her relationship with God”. I think that might be what struck me while listening to her music — the similarity of voice that came from above.

This was the only song on my iPod that is sung by Corrinne, but it is more than enough to hear the talent and passion she has towards music.

Fly Away

Visit her website to listen to more of her songs and learn more about Corrinne May =)

http://www.corrinnemay.com/

If you are interested in learning more about her life, you can also visit her blog. See for yourself what a songwriter’s life is all about.

http://corrinnemay.blogspot.com/

The Latest news is, Corrinne and her husband Kavin were expecting their first baby in late April 2009. So she has taken a break from touring for the time being.

Congratz!!

Follow your dream. You will never know where it might lead you to.

May 10th, 2009 by Jon

From our previous post we have told you about the IMSLP/Petruucci Music Score Database, now there is another awesome resource web site 8notes.com there you can find all kinds of instruments’ music sheet other then piano. You can find guitar, violin, Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, Saxophone, Trombone, Cello, Percussion, French Horn, Bassoon, Tuba, etc.

Enjoy and have fun with music !

May 10th, 2009 by Reb

For all the muscians out there, don’t let anyone take away the chance of living up to your dream.

May 9th, 2009 by Reb

Here’s the newest recording from my Saturday lesson with my beloved Olivia and Sharon.

Hope this will help in guiding you guys’ piano practices this week.

Happy playing =) You guys rock!

Olivia:
Watch out for the dotted notes, they can be real tricky. But don’t think about it for too much, or else it’ll run away from you!

Sharon
Remember right hand should be strong, clear and bright. Follow the pedal markings carefully!

And the 2nd one.
Don’t miss out the little staccatos!

So far I’ve liking the iProRecorder on my iTouch very much =)

If any of you run into troubles please leave a comment.

Feedback are very much encouraged!

May 7th, 2009 by Reb

The Song of Twilight

Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 3

May 7th, 2009 by Reb

For the past year, I’ve had great joy teaching piano at Kitsolano Community Center. Now, I’ve found another great way to stay connected with my lovely students =)

Dear Jodi and Tammy,

Here are the recordings for Wednesday’s class, May 6th 2009.

I hope these recordings will help you guys until we meet again!

Tammy

And the 2nd one =)

Jodi

Maybe next time I should at least get the NAMES of these songs.

Good luck and have fun =)

May 4th, 2009 by Reb

Introducing the best free public domain sheet music library I’ve ever come across to.

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page

I can’t think of any other way to put this.  In simplistic terms: here you can find, literally, EVERYTHING.

As of today, this library contains 28,552 scores. Browsed by composer name, time period, genre or instruments, also available in many different languages.

The time period runs from Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Early 20th Century, all the way to the present. It’s also being constantly updated and profiled.

Everything you can ever think of, you can find it here, FREE.

And its not just one instrument, its ANY instrument.

Now isn’t that good news for us musicians.

Good luck playing them all. =)

Note: Files are mostly availible in PDF format.