Von Hertzen Brothers - Angel's Eyes (Keyboard Solo Transcription)

Whoa,
it has been a while since I wrote a post on this blog :D
Anyway, today I transcribed the "fast notes, scale and arpeggios"-style solo you can hear toward the end of this song by Von Hertzen Brothers:

I just realized what I can do when I have to study engineering but I have no will to do it :P

So, this is the download link pointing to a beautiful PDF of the sheet music:

DOWNLOAD

Oh, and one last thing: I the fingering is slightly off the notes' heads, and this is not my fault :) I'm trying a new notation application and it doesn't seem to properly support this feature.

Hope you'll enjoy it... if you make a video playing the song and put it on youtube-alike please include a link to my blog (instead of linking directly to the PDF)

Europe - Superstitious (Guitar Solo Backing Track)

A few days ago I learnt this awesome solo (I've done it on the keyboards, obviously :D) by Europe.
After something like, I think, 2 hours of learning it by ear and trying to play it at normal speed I managed to do it. So, I wanted a backing track to play along without the original guitar solo and... 5 minutes with a drum machine, an improvised bass guitar line and some PADs doing chords this is what I created, a nice sounding backing track of Superstitious:
Europe - Superstitious (Guitar Solo Backing Track).mp3

Feel free to drop a comment ;)

Yann Tiersen Transcription

I transcribed a simple (yet beautiful) piece of music by French composer Yann Tiersen. Check it out ;)

Comptine d'été n° 3

I made them with MuseScore (an Open Source program that's a bit of an hack) and should be 99% correct ;) If not, please let me know.

First post about my music ;)

I composed this some time ago from an idea I got while "improvising" on my father's acoustic guitar. I'm not a guitarrist so it is a simple song (actually it is a part of a song) but I like it and I'm trying to finish it. The drum kit part isn't appropriate because I can't play the drums so I wrote only something to give an idea, leaving the task of writing the final version to some drummer friend of mine xD.

WARNING: The midi file is played by sequencer of windows so it doesn't sound very well ;)

Download link:

3mpty - Empty (Work In Progress)

(All rights reserved, at least for the moment)

Tell me what ya think :)

3mpty

[Ongoing projects: a pesudo-funky prog metal song :D]

Ingen: Opensource Modular Synth

After trying alsa modular synth and seeing it crashing every 2 mins, I decided to search the web for something better... and I found Ingen.

Ingen is a software that uses LADSPA and LV2 plugins, connected with each other, to create synths. LV2 is a new format of plugin, that probably will substitute the old and limited LADSPA if all goes right.
LV2 gives the programmer the possibility to create a custom GUI, just like VSTs do.

You can install Ingen from your distro's repository, but if the version you get is not up to date, you should checkout the latest from SVN: If you are able do deal with the console, the second is the better choice, because it means more stable software.

On this page there's the step-by-step guide to compile it from SVN.
(The build system, waf, needs python 2.x to work.)

If you get an error ending with

/giomm-2.4/giomm/error.h:97: error: expected declaration before ‘}’ token Build failed
-> task failed (err #1):
{task: cxx ConnectWindow?.cpp -> ConnectWindow?_1.o}

I managed (in a not so good way) to "solve" it:
Just open the file error.h (that should be in some folder like "/usr/include/giomm-2.4/giomm/") and skip the source to the line indicated by the number indicated (in this case, 97). After that, change the line from "HOST_NOT_FOUND," to "HOST_NOT_FOUND_," and do the same for the next line.
Then recompile with ./waf and all should work fine. After compiling, reopen error.h and revert the changes.

Now, a simple "sudo ./waf install" or "./waf install" if you are already root installs the app on your system.
To run it, if you don't see it on the app menu, open a shell and write "ingen -eg": this will start ingen with the graphical frontend.

As I wrote before, Ingen needs plugins installed on your computer, otherwise it is quite useless.
Here are some links to good plugins:

• Calf
• SWH
• Blop
• Misc LV2 plugins

Ingen automatically adds LV2 plugins in its menu, while for LADSPA ones you must right click->find.

If you have any problem or question, just leave a comment or write some line on Ingen's IRC channel on freenode.

I hope to write a short tutorial to describe how to create a simple synth with ADSR ampli.

3mpty