songsterr has a stellar guitar tablature UI. Finding a counterexample of truly awful written music on the web is a depressingly easy job, but Mel Bay is as rock bottom as anybody: Read em and cringe.
Author Archives: Lucas Gonze
David Byrne bike racks
August 20, 2008 – 9:03 am
The New York Times has an article on NYC bike racks designed by David Byrne. I like em:
In my mind this fits next to his blog as a reason to think of him as a creator in the present rather than a legacy act whose relevant work is in the past.
He’s like a silent [...]
byrne/eno drop
August 19, 2008 – 11:03 am
Embedded player for the new David Byrne + Briane Eno album:
Byrne’s comment on the site:
For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang.
I like this music.
When I first listened to this via the embedded player I had a hard time getting over my distrust of [...]
netaudio: Ian D Hawgood - The Fire Will Die At Night
August 15, 2008 – 6:23 pm
Ian D Hawgood - The Fire Will Die At Night is a beautiful piece of music with an really nicely done home page. I’d embed a player here, except that the page itself is part of the value so you’re better off clicking through. I especially liked the downloadable printable CD cover.
marketing songs the lazy way
August 15, 2008 – 10:29 am
I have added some new formats for my song Frog in the Well.
For people making videos, I created cuts of 20 seconds, 30 seconds, and 40 seconds. I have noticed that the length of a piece of music is a big factor in choosing it, so these cuts are to increase the number of [...]
lead sheet for “He’s in the Jailhouse Now”
August 11, 2008 – 12:57 pm
Over the weekend I posted my own sheet music for the old song “He’s in the Jailhouse Now” on my musician blog.
Some good things about it:
Carefully proofread and corrected. I used it in a couple different rehearsals and ironed out the bugs.
On a single page. No page turns.
Big type and simplified changes. [...]
How to add Moon of Manakura to your web page
August 8, 2008 – 2:23 pm
Go to Rhapsody.
Ignore annoying upsell to their download store.
Do a track search for “Moon of Manakoora.” You have to set the scope of the search in the dropdown next to the entry field.
In the search results, right click on the link to the song and do “copy link location.”
Go to your own web page.
Paste [...]