47 Sites Every Recording Musician Should Visit Nov 6th in General by Adrian Try

Thank-you Audio Tuts! They have produced an extremely good collection of helpful music sites that musicians and music educators can use to teach and learn music. There are some familiar sites listed and some new ones that offer a variety of information.

Nick’s Tutorials

Nick’s tutorials is a site of helpful tutorial videos produced privately by Nick. He just wants to help musicians get better at their craft.

Serious Sounds – all about Midi and sound production

Serious Sounds, Tutorials and information on MIDI sequencing, arrangement, sample use, soundfonts, using DAWs and VST/VSTis. “Providing Music Producers with Tutorials, Help & Advice on Music Production.”

Scale Finder

If you want to know all about scales, check out the Scale Finder site that gives you all the info about scales and modes.

Sonic Academy – Learn Music Technology

Sonic Academy. “Learn music technology” is all about being at he sound board and mixing your favorite music. There are tutorials and lessons to help you learn about the equipment used to record and perform music.

Teaching with Contests.com

Academic contests can be a fun way to get students excited about writing an essay, creating a video, writing a poem, or completing any number of learning activities. Teaching With Contests is a blog designed to help you find academic contests that your students can participate in. A quick review of the blog will lead you to contests covering all K-12 content areas.

Midi Controllers for Percussionists

Looking for a percussion controller or piano keyboard controller. Here are some great reviews on equipment from many of the top companies. Do a comparison of products.

There is an abundance of technologies and techniques for creating rhythm tracks, from MIDI sequencers to drum machines, from audio loops to beat makers. Or you can play the rhythm yourself. Admittedly this takes a degree of skill, and some practice, but the results are less mechanical, the tracks can be created more rapidly, and you have a different sort of control over the creative process.
Read the rest of the article….at the audio jungle.

Eartraining – Detecting Intervals with Song Association

Using familiar melodies to help recognize intervals has been a popular method of ear training. An example would be singing “Here Comes the Bride” in your head in order to identify the interval of a perfect fourth. Figure out intervals in your favorite songs and they will help you figure out intervals in other songs you listen to. This ability of recognizing intervals is a great help when you want to learn a new song. Here is an article on the process. The thing to remember is that you need to chose your own songs that you are familiar with so that you can hear them in your head easily.

Scorecast – Need help composing the perfect movie score?

Scorecast is a very informative site that will probably give composers a new idea or two about their craft. It is a very thorough site, well organized and full of useful posts.

How to Use Pitch Correction for Vocal Effects

How to Use Pitch Correction for Vocal Effects
Nov 4th in Logic Pro, Production by Ryan Leach
Posted: 04 Nov 2009 03:19 AM PST

Auto-tuned vocals are a cool effect have become a standard technique in popular music. The sound can be heard all over pop and electronica from the last decade. A variety of artists use it, from T-Pain to Cher, and even the J-Pop band Perfume from West’s Polyrhythm tutorial. Even President Obama has gotten in on it (well, sort of…).

What you might not realize though is that it’s a surprisingly easy effect to achieve. All you need is a source track and an Auto-tune plug in (or an Auto-tune clone, in this case we’ll use Logic Studio’s built in Pitch Correction).
First I’ll explain the parts of Pitch Correction that we’re going to use. Next I’ll walk through two different examples of how to put the effect to use. In this tutorial I’ll use the term Pitch Correction to mean the same thing as Auto-tune.