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Why you need a website, and how to get one…

A website is an absolute necessity for the modern musician. With a website you can reach out to an audience of people throughout the world and let them know just how great you are. If you are willing to put in a little effort and persevere with your time a website can offer you a [...]

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Creating MP3s with Audacity

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 [...]

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Editing sound files in Audacity

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 [...]

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For Sight-Reading Music, Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect

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 [...]