White Christmas

It’s been 10 years since I did a guitar arrangement of this song, and it’s been a while since I last recorded anything. So finally here’s the “official” recording done by yours truly, 32Kbps low bitrate version since I want to save bandwidth. This is played on my electric, which I still can’t get the [...]

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chordcalc.py – initial release

I finally wrote that program to generate chord fingerings for any fretted instrument. It’s written in Python and meant to be run at the command-line. It’s quite a pleasure writing this in Python – I was surprised to finish writing the core algorithm in just one morning. Why another chord generation program when there are [...]

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Scores from Japan

Just received the music scores I ordered from Amazon Japan. First time I tried ordering stuff from Japan. Amazon Japan has an English interface, but knowing Japanese helps a lot. The delivery was fast, very fast actually. I was used to waiting for almost a month for stuff from Amazon US to get to this [...]

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Woohoo! Another toy!

Added another Irish whistle to my current collection of ah…just one. My friend currently studying in Dublin brought back a Generation C brass whistle for me (made in Britain, and he bought it in Ireland, haha). ^_^ Nice mellow sound, and I actually find it a bit easier to play than my Feadog D (nickel). [...]

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New songs

I just uploaded two more songs to my “band” page. They’ve been sitting in my hard drive for the past week. I’ve been working on a number of transcriptions of Bach and Carulli pieces lately. Given my tendency to get distracted by other side projects (I did say I was working a number of pieces, [...]

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Format files for abcm2ps

I never thought I would pick up Postscript programming, but that was just I did for the past couple of weeks, so that I can extend the abcm2ps music notation software. I wrote 3 format files in a row (interspersed with lots of fumbling around and googling for answers to my Postscript problems – I [...]

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My band page

Created a soundclick web page today for my “band” i.e. moi, haha. The site had some “site-wide issue” today, so I was unable to upload my music until now. I’ve been experimenting with recording using Kristal Audio Engine last weekend and today. Did a couple of short improv pieces and decided to post them online. [...]

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Microphone lessons

Been playing with a “cheap” condenser mic (it’s about as cheap as condenser mic designed for music recording can go) I bought this afternoon. I was trying to record my guitar playing. Here’s what I learnt… Lesson #1: A condenser mic does not quite work when plugged into a computer sound card. Oh it records [...]

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