Using PaperShow for Teachers in the Music Classroom

I was talking with my wife and daughter, who are both musicians about PaperShow for Teachers and how it could be used in the music classroom, when it dawned on me how great this could be for writing music on staffs that everyone could see. In order to accomplish this with PaperShow for Teachers I did a quick search on Google for musical staffs in a PDF format that were in the landscape orientation.

I found a rather good site to download some staffs in the landscape mode and then I launched PaperShow for Teachers, imported the musical staff into the application and then printed it on the PaperShow for Teachers interactive paper on my HP Color Inkjet printer. Once I had the page printed I was able to draw the G Clef and add a couple of notes. Now imagine for a moment that you are a music teacher in the classroom just how handy this could be. Everyone can clearly watch you as you write the notes on the staff and when you are through you can export it as a PDF and send it to all of your students.

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Attention Music Teachers - watch this

http://www.videosift.com/video/Africa-Acapella-cover

This group may not be new to you, but it was to me. Start this video and close your eyes. What do you hear? Now open your eyes. Is that fun or what?

Many years ago a regional chorus of PA sang a song that had something similar in it, but it was the audience who did it. In the program were listed some names of soldiers who had been killed in Vietnam. The audience was to quietly whisper that list of names in whatever pace they wished. The conductor directed them to do so very quietly. The result was that it sounded for all the world like the sounds of the woods t night. You could hear the peepers, the crickets, and other sounds from the woods.

The lights on the stage were also dimmed a bit and the conductor allowed this sound enough time to create the atmosphere in the room. Then he led the chorus in the song about the fallen soldiers. It was haunting, for sure, and I've obviously never forgotten it.

In any case, send this to your favorite music teacher.


via videosift.com

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iPhone and Music

The iPhone application revolution has become the face of new technology in many more ways than one. Whenever a new invention is released, it is often followed by many smaller 'spin-off' ideas, which accumulate into other new useful releases as well. Most of the time, combining a pre-existing technology to the new invention does the trick.

In this case, the Apple iPhone is the new technology and the other is music. Apple created an amazing phone, a phone that many feel is ahead of its time. The top mobile phones don't even come close to what the iPhone is capable of. Google has recently released the G1, their answer to the iPhone. Sadly, it is not match. Google has even opened an app development market similar to Apple, but it will not prove to be as successful.Cell phones have been around for well over a decade and music for eons. But put them both together and you have an invention that is undeniably a trademark of the 21st century.

Combine cell phones with music and the internet and you've struck gold! This combination is widely being used in ways never before seen. But the iPhone now takes this even one step further. Today, artists can use the iPhone for promoting their music as well as their music videos. But it doesn't stop there, Artists can not only generate revenue from the sale of a song, but they can create an app that showcases unique content about their music. Dedicated music lovers would purchase the app just because they love the artist so much. And that's something that has never been done before in history.

Artists are using this revolutionary tool to spread their message, every way imaginable. One up and coming rock band, called Snow Patrol, has created an iPhone application - which showcases the lyrics of their newest album A Hundred Million Suns by sifting through interactive origami-like packages.

Other more established artists such as Nine Inch Nails are releasing iPhone applications, which feature the lead singer Trent Reznor's hand-picked favorite songs from the last 2 albums jam-packed into one iPhone application.

The list of artists currently taking advantage of this incredible opportunity is quite short today but will be ultimately endless by next year's end. With every album launch, public relation companies and marketing companies should collaborate to put together an application dedicated to the new album release. There is an unlimited amount of apps they could make if they realize the huge potential in iPhone apps. A study recently surfaced that rated the iPhone as the number one selling mobile phone in the world. The runner up was the razor which held first place for roughly three years. I'm sure we all remember the razor, upon its release it was the thinnist phone on the market. But, times have changed and so has technology. Apple has gone above and beyond the razor, and it is easy to see why the iPhone is regarded as the best in its class.

One website featuring this opportunity is AppCraver.com - the web's leading iPhone application news and reviews site, dedicated to featuring the best and latest additions to the iPhone application world. AppCraver has some of the best app reviews I have seen on the web. Most other app review sites don't even write their own reviews, they just pull their information from other sources.

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Jee Juh Productions - Beats, Instrumentals, and Featured Artist

Are you working in the music industry? I recently found an unique and creative site that will be useful for you. Yes, for you who work as musicians or artists, now you do not need to work hard to make beats or instrumentals of a song from zero, because has come JeeJuh.com. Through this site, you can choose and purchase various types of beats and instrumentals that can then be modified in accordance with your wishes and needs. JeeJuh.com provide high quality beats and instrumentals and all of that is the result of the work of Elliot Waite and Mike Lightner as Jee Juh producers.

There are 2 kinds of beats that you can select, the Gold pack or Platinum pack. Both have differences, for the Gold pack the downloadable MP3 audio file (128 kbps), and for the Platinum pack the downloadable high quality WAV audio files (24 bit, 44.1 kHz) professionally mixed as well as stemmed out. You can customize in accordance with your desire and your cost. I think your desire to become a successful musician can soon become a reality. You can utilize the best beats and instrumentals from JeeJuh.com to put into your music. So, what are you waiting for? Take action now to buy the best beats and instrumentals from JeeJuh.com, and you are in the last step to be a professional artist, and can release a commercial album with best beats and instrumentals.

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