If you have just downloaded Audacity and are wondering how to export your file as an Mp3, wonder no longer… Audacity does not export files to Mp3 format without the LAME encoder. This encoder is also free to the public and can be downloaded here: http://lame.sourceforge.net/ Once you have downloaded the files place them in [...]
Editing sound files in Audacity
August 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Audacity is a free audio editing program that will serve many of your needs while remaining a relatively simple program to learn. What this is useful for: Extracting selections of audio from a larger/longer audio file to use in a presentation in Powerpoint, on a website, use in an exam etc. Go to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ and [...]
For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect
June 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance. // Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:50 AM ET Content provided by Bruce Bower, Science News THE GIST Sight-reading is the ability to play sheet music on an instrument with little or no preparation. Having a strong ability to remember pieces of relevant [...]
String Quartet Competition
June 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Swiss Global announces their competition for use of “The Evangelists” St John St Mark St Matthew St Luke “No dents!” Laurent Marfaing remembers noticing when he was first presented with St Matthew in April 2008. The description was perhaps fitting, as the viola had been “sleeping”, completely unheard, for at least 35 years. St Matthew [...]
Improve your playing…fast.
January 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
In my lessons with the undergraduate students here at Yale I find myself repeating a few core ideas many times. Perhaps one of the most common suggestions I make to students is to… slow down.
