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Published on 20th January 2009 by Joe Martin
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So, the levels for
Lord of the Rings: Conquest
follow the allied campaign first, starting with Helm's Deep and moving on to the Black Gate via Mina Tirith, then finish with the invading rebuttal, which finishes with an attempt on the Shire.
On paper of course that sounds fantastic – Helm's Deep in particular was the highpoint of the entire movie trilogy, so starting the game with the most impressive single battle is a good place to make an impression. Huge numbers of Uruk-hai flinging themselves against your defences like suicidal crickets and a diminishing number of elven archers trying to stem the tide? This could be fantastic.
Unfortunately, when you get into the game the first thing that struck us was the vacuous emptiness of the battlefield. Helm's Deep isn't an edifice built into an impassive granite cliff – it's a single wall built against a depressingly grey hill. Not a particularly high wall either.
Likewise, the armies aren't the rallied forces of entire nations, just small raiding parties. There's a motionless red army of evil in the distance of the first level, but Sauron thinks it's best to only send in ten orcs at a time.
Fortunately, things do improve as you move through the levels and the missions increasingly focus on smaller areas where the enemies can appear more numerous. Larger foes appear, such as cave trolls and there's even one bit where you get to ride a horse for exactly two minutes.
These improvements are let down however by the poor balancing that runs through the entire game like a glass of concentrated fig juice. On some level Pandemic has tried to build a rock-paper-scissors hierarchy into the units to give it a tactical feel. Archers aren't great against mages for example, who can defend troops with a domed shield.
All of this good intentioned thinking falls down in the singleplayer game when the player recognises how powerful some attacks are and how unobservant the AI is. Enemy mages rarely hold their shields for more than minute, while fast moving archers can just run up close and knock them over with a kick anyway.
To counter this ability to just rape the battlefield with archer-fire, Pandemic has had to play dirty tricks on us. Rogues can turn invisible and insta-kill anyone (which makes boss fights easier than sitting down and pressing E when told to, somehow) and there are enemies in later levels who will literally swoop down and strip you of a life without warning.
steps over the line of being simply challenging and often encamps itself in the area of wrath-worthy / tortuous.
Occasionally though, players get the poor balancing tipped back their way. There's a hero to every level in the game and each one can be summoned once should the player choose. Heroes on the Dark Side run the likes of Nazgul or Saruman, while goody two-shoes get Gimli Son of Gloin, Gandalf the White and Aragorn the Wooden-faced.
The heroes themselves are always powered-up versions of the base classes – Aragorn is a warrior, Legolas an archer and Gimli is a rogue for some reason – but each of them has a more powerful set of attacks. If an archer can already defend Helm's Deep single handedly then you should be able to appreciate how game-breaking Legolas is.
can be a one-hit kill, while he has a set of good melee attacks to back him up and a tonne o' extra health.
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Seat Stash Tutorial
One week left until Girl Friday Sews officially begins, and I thought I'd whet your appetite with an early tutorial for your very own Seat Stash pocket. When I was a teacher, I used to risk life and limb every day trying to walk down classroom aisles that were cluttered with all the books, folders, and papers that wouldn't fit in the kids' desks. Then one year our school ordered these incredible pockets that fit on the back of the student chairs. Not only did my life expectancy improve by at least five years, but my classroom aisles became clean overnight.
I've been wanting to make one of these for Bear to use now that's she's doing her home schooling at a plastic Ikea desk and chair in the family room. We keep her supply kit on a chair next to her desk during school, but this pocket will be the perfect home for her worksheet folder. The Seat Stash is a snap to make -- you can easily whip up one in less than an hour. The measurements in my tutorial will fit a 16" wide chair back, but you can adapt this by measuring the width of your chair and adding two inches to the number you get. All of my fabrics for this project are from Once Upon a Time by Alexander Henry -- perfect girly bliss for my little Bear.
(2) 18 x 14" pieces for the interior
(2) 18 x 14" pieces for the exterior
(1) 18 x 17" piece for the pocket
(1) 18 x 8.5" piece of quilt batting
1. Make your pocket. Fold the pocket piece in half (wrong sides together) with the 18" ends touching. Slip the piece of batting in between the folded ends so that you have a nice sandwich. Sew 1/4" from the fold, and then quilt the rest as desired. I chose to sew horizontal lines at ever widening intervals down the front of mine. By the way, be careful as you work with this piece if it's a directional print -- ask me how I know this... :)
2. Make the main body pieces for the pocket. Take an interior and exterior piece, right sides together, and sew 1/4" from one 18" end. Fold one piece back so that the wrong sides are together and the edges match up. Press and then top stitch 1/4" from the fold.
Repeat with the other pieces EXCEPT add the pocket in there on top of the exterior piece with the bottom raw edges of the pocket lined up with the other two pieces. Again, check your direction on the pocket before you sew these together!
3. Assemble your pocket. Place the two panels on top of each, interior pieces facing each other with the pocket on the bottom. Hold them together with pins or clips. Sew 1/4" from the edge around the sides and top, leaving the bottom open and back stitching at both ends.
Trim the corners and turn the piece inside out, pushing out the corners with a chopstick. Press. Sew 1/2" from the edge around the sides and top this time, again back stitching at both ends. Turn the pocket right side out, pushing out the corners with a chopstick. Give it a good press all over and fit it onto your chair. It's ready to go!
I love a project that's easy to make but incredibly useful at the same time, so this really works for me. I also think a patchwork version of this would be adorable, and one of those may soon be in my future since Bunny gave me quite the "how-could-you-make-one-of-these-for-my-sister-and-not-for-me-if-you-really-loved-me" look when she saw Bear joyfully parading her well dressed chair around the house this afternoon. If you make a Seat Stash, please share pictures with us in the Girl Friday Sews Flickr group which you can find here. We'd love to see what you're making!
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Kitsch Inn
- Telephone 0141 332 1341
- Bar open Mon–Sun 5pm–midnight
- Food served Mon–Sun noon–9pm
- Pre-theatre times Mon–Sun 5–6.45pm
- Average price £8 (set lunch); £15 (evening meal)
- Pre-theatre price £13.50
- Website www.tikibarglasgow.com
A quirky Thai restaurant offering Pan Asian flavours and a welcoming party atmosphere at fair prices.
The 2016/17 edition of The List's Eating & Drinking Guide is out now – only £5.95 (+p&p).
This review is taken from the current (2016) edition.
The Kitsch Inn's kitchen, controlled by Thai chef Leksriri, produces some delicious takes on his national cuisine. The cooking has a Pan Asian character, with an Australian accent, and surely it has the best chicken satay in town, served with an outstanding peanut and chilli, lemon grass infused sauce – the chicken is soft, tasty and free-range (not common features of the dish elsewhere). It is this awareness of quality that belies the wonderful razzamatazz of the décor with its multiple images of sultry maidens offset by a gorgeous ceiling and deep jade green colours. Mains push the tastebuds to the limit, again prepared with an eye to sourcing and sustainability, such as pad Thai or pla tod yum – lots of chilli kick and crispy texture offset by sweet mango and firm crispy coley. Drinks are served in quirky ceramic mugs, while desserts are good and incredibly cheap. Staff maintain a fun atmosphere ensuring the Kitsch Inn and associated Tiki Bar downstairs are often the venue of choice for celebration parties.
- High point: Amazing value desserts
- Low point: No disabled access
- Notable dish: Pla tod yum, lots of chilli kick and crispy texture offset by sweet mango and firm crispy coley, all the better for being sustainable
- Delivery: Delivery on line
- Private dining: Up to 15 covers
- Provides: Halal options, Children's portions, Children's high chairs, Pre-theatre menu, Outdoor tables, Free wi-fi
- Live entertainment: Occasional DJs for special events
- Capacity: 54 (20 outdoors)
- Largest group: 54
- Open since: 2010
- Number of wines sold by the glass: 6
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Awards: | Commended for Storylines Notable New Zealand Books: Young Adult Fiction 2014. Shortlisted for Hugo Nebula Award 2014. Shortlisted for New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction 2014. Shortlisted for LIANZA Children's Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction Award 2014. Shortlisted for Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novel (Young Adult) 2014. |
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Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027. She's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice. But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened. Tegan is the first person to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity, though all she wants is to rebuild some semblance of a normal life, including spending as much time as possible with musically gifted Abdi, even if he does seem to hate the sight of her. But the future isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice - Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?
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Spectroscopic Techniques Laboratory
The ICMAB Spectroscopy Service was created with the main objective to provide centralised equipments and installations mainly to the research ICMAB groups though the service is also opened to external users.
The priority of this service is to offer the highest levels of technology and quality to satisfy the requirements of the research lines currently underway in our institute.
The currently equipments available are: NMR, EPR, RAMAN, UV-Vis-NIR, FT-IR and Luminescence spectrometers. For NMR, EPR and RAMAN equipments highly qualified technical staff is employed. The rest of the equipments are mainly used on a self-service regime.
Three types of spectroscopy techniques have been carried out:
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There are two double beam UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer, a Varian Cary 5 and a Varian Cary 5000 with operational range of 190-3300 nm and also a Shimadzu UV-Vis 1700 spectrophotometer with operational range of 200-800 nm.
Liquid samples can be measured in absorbance or transmittance mode mainly using 1 cm or 1 mm quartz cuvettes. The three equipments are of self-service management for internal users, who have been previously trained by the technicians. However, the technicians are needed for the external users.For solid samples it is available a Diffuse Reflectance Sphere DRA-2500 accessory in the UV-Vis-NIR Varian Cary 5000 spectrophotometer, with operational range of 190-3300 nm. Solid samples can be measured mainly in reflectance or transmittance mode.
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Aaron Lee is the social media manager at Binkd Promotion, a comprehensive platform for social media marketing through digital promotions and contests. He also writes social media tips on the Binkd Blog. Follow him at @AskAaronLee.When Mark Zuckerberg first built Facebook, the purpose of it was to keep people connected with their friends. That was its first purpose. And it worked well.
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Kristine's novella, The Mischievous Misadventures of Dewey the Daring, is available on Amazon.com and her middle-grade fantasy novel, Whole in the Clouds, new, extended version of Kibbee's middle-grade fantasy novel. "Whole in the Clouds" will be released by Incorgnito Publishing in January of 2016. She anticipates the publication of her comedic collection of dog stories, Frenchie 'Tails,'—which are short, cheeky and ripe with mischief– in November of 2015.
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Explore and Stroll Through Little Washington
Take time during your visit to stroll through our charming village and look at the distinctive architecture, follow the Civil War Trail signs, and visit our shops and galleries. If you really like to walk, you can visit The Farm at Sunnyside, two miles away, which made national news when First Lady Michelle Obama purchased organic vegetables from its stand at the White House farmers' market.
Many of the streets in Little Washington bear the names of the first families to own land on which the town was founded: Jett, Wheeler, Porter, and Calvert. You'll note the variety of architecture. Washington House, now The Inn at Little Washington Shops, is an authentic large colonial-period structure, circa 1735, where the county government first held its meetings. Some of the brick Rappahannock County government buildings, circa 1835, were constructed by James Leake Powers, an apprentice of Thomas Jefferson, while Malcolm Crawford constructed the courthouse. Other buildings are frontier cabins, some now covered with clapboard or pebble dash.
As a modern town that maintains the charm of a country village, Little Washington has a unique blend of rural character and historic significance. Its mixture of open spaces, village-style commerce, historic structures, cultural offerings, and local government activities makes it a peaceful yet vibrant community sought after by Big Washington (DC) area residents who have come here and made this their home.
Galleries offer top-notch individual and group shows throughout the year, and concerts are given that satisfy every musical taste-bluegrass, classical, gospel, or jazz. Live performances are presented at the two theaters, and the Rappahannock Association for the Arts & Community sponsors a regular schedule of Friday night movies, as well as a fall artist and gallery tour. Visitors interested in local history should stop by the Rappahannock Historical Society to peruse its selection of documents and records.
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P.O. Box 420
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Geneva is a nationally known artist, displaying watercolor, oil paintings and dry-point etchings of animals and country scenes. Limited edition prints and hand painted ornaments and platters. Open Thursday – Monday 11:00am – 6:00pm.
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Two floors of fine art, rugs, European home decor and gifts, one block from The Inn at Little Washington. Open daily, 10:00am-6:00pm
The Inn at Little Washington Gift Shop
Middle and Main Street
P.O. Box 300
Washington, Virginia 22747
Carries items unique to the Inn, including its own breakfast china, granola, bread and items designed exclusively for the shop. Open daily at 10:00am until 6:00pm Monday – Thursday, 8:00pm Friday, 10:00pm Saturday.
JPC Designs
Justin Corddry
330-C Porter Street
Washington, Virginia 22747
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Handcrafted home furnishings and accessories.
Little Washington Wellness & Spa
261 Main St (parking and entrance behind building)
Washington, VA 22747
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Little Washington Wellness & Spa invites you to come unwind with us. Our holistic services include facials, microdermabrasion, massage & spa body treatments, couples spa services, energy treatments, meditations, wellness coaching & more. We strive to provide all natural and organic products. See our calendar for our workshops & seminars, or stop by and treat yourself to our wonderful products. New Client & Rappahannock Residents Specials, online booking & Gift Certificates available.
Antiques at Middle Street
325 Middle St
Washington, VA 22747
540.675.1103 | antiquesatmiddlest.com
Adjacent to The Inn at Little Washington, this shop is a conglomeration of beautiful and interesting finds in the world of collectibles. The front room is filled with vintage furniture and other unique pieces, all surrounded by a display of art. Our porcelain collection includes Limoges pieces and pieces from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Japan and England. Displays of Chinese artifacts and depression glass are lighted by delightful lamps peppered among the treasures. The back room holds another treasure trove of goodies including lovely primitives, kitchen collectibles, toys, knickknacks and interesting works of art. To help you walk down memory lane is the ticktock of old clocks, from small to wall clocks.
Hours: F-Su & Monday holidays, 10 am-6 pm
Rappahannock Historical Society & Museum
328 Gay St
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The raffle winners for this month are Andrew Robertson from Indianapolis, IN, who has won a copy of Ed Roseman's "Edly's Music Theory for Practical People" (reviewed below), Mark Fleming from B.C., Canada, who has won a copy of IndieMusic.com's "Musician's Toolkit" (for details on this package of useful indie musician-related tools, see http://www.musicianstoolkit.com/muse/ ), and Adam "Pops" Nierow from Brooklyn, NY, who has won a copy of VSS's helpful songwriting organization product (for a review of Lyricist & information on a discount offered, see http://www.musesmuse.com/vss-review.html ). For those of you buried in snow, good luck digging yourself out! I know the feeling. We just got dumped on here in Newmarket too. :-/ Ah well. Winter wouldn't be winter without snow, right? (You folks in California, be quiet. :) ) I could just do with a bit LESS of it. Too much of a "good thing" and all that... ;) Blah. Anyway, don't pull any muscles and keep writing. All the best, --Jodi Back to Menu ================================================================= S p o n s o r M e s s a g e : (Please support the sponsors that support this newsletter! Thanks!) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LYRICIST! VERSION 2.2 HAS ARRIVED-INCLUDES ON-LINE COPYRIGHT LINK Virtual Studio Systems, Inc. is proud to announce Lyricist V2.2 - The Songwriter's Best Friend: the first-of-its-kind word processor designed for musicians, songwriters, and poets. The software includes a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, album categorization, chord charting, chord generator, song arrangement, On-Line Copyright Link, and much much more - all in a user-friendly package. Check out the review at www.musesmuse.com/vss-review.html Muse's Muse visitors can take home the product for $5.00 off the regular selling price just for purchasing through the form provided off of the review! For more information, visit the review url above or call us at 888.732.1176 inside the U.S.A. and Canada or 603.726-4499 outside the U.S.A. ================================================================= C o p y r i g h t & P u b l i s h i n g Q & A : With Licensing executive Nancy A. Reece ----------------------------------------------------------------- Nancy is taking a break this month - but if you'd like to see some of the great Q&A's she's conducted over the years she's been with The Muse's Muse, you can drop by her previous listing of Q&A's at http://www.musesmuse.com/pubq-a.html . Her new page contains some of her newest Q&A's along with information about her upcoming book at http://www.musesmuse.com/realarealq.html . And as per usual, you're welcome to ask questions! ***** ABOUT NANCY A. REECE: Since 1998, Nancy Reece has been providing a question and answer forum for Muse's Muse readers. Now all of the articles, forums and Q&A's are being compiled into a book. Nancy is wanting to be sure that you have the opportunity to receive a copy of the book as soon as it is ready. If you are interested in getting an E-mail notification to indicate that the book is ready for purchase, please send your request to firstname.lastname@example.com . How to Ask a Question: If you have a question for Nancy about publishing or copyright administration, you can e-mail her at email@example.com. Please indicate in the subject of your e-mail that your submission is for The Muse's Muse guest forum, Real Answers to Real Questions. Thanks! Back to Menu ================================================================= M u s i c R e v i e w s : by Ben Ohmart, David Lockeretz, Stacey Board, & Gian Fiero ----------------------------------------------------------------- Kenny Camacho "Long and Overdue" (by Stacey Board) When I popped in this CD and started listening, I was surprised to hear a cover tune as the first track. But then I was immediately impressed with Kenny's quite superb singing chops. He's got a great tone, control and expression in his voice. Not overtrained schlock there's a big difference!! He's an outstanding singer. The choice of "Lady In Red" really showcases his voice's range from subtle to powerful. As a bonus it also slips in some Spanish language lines and a somewhat different arrangement of the tune that I really liked. I think it also plants the seed that this guy is as good as any singer out there in radioland, by showing how well he sings something we are already used to hearing sung well. The second song is entirely in Spanish and reminds me of a Ricky Martin-ish pop song he does what he does very well. It's quite danceable. The production on all the songs on the CD is rich and layered and I could hear any of these tunes on the radio standing right up to anything on the Pop stations. "Never Give Up" is soulful R&B, and reminds me of something very Marvin Gaye, but with a few electronic updates. There aren't any instrument credits on the CD liner notes and I get the impression that the music is arranged with programmed drum and keyboard loops. Kenny's got big-league chops as a singer, and some very good soulful radio ready songs on "Long and Overdue". Fans of power pop will enjoy this new find to add to their CD collection. http://www.kennycamacho.com/, Fan Club C/O Dream makers, P.O. Box 848, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602 ------------------ OTHER NEW MUSIC REVIEWS SINCE LAST MONTH INCLUDE: Amateur God (by Ben Ohmart) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000422.html Richard Shulman (by Ben Ohmart) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000427.html Drumming Planet (by Ben Ohmart) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000428.html The Yardbirds (by Ben Ohmart) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000418.html Soulthieves (by David Lockeretz) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000426.html Trikus (by David Lockeretz) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000431.html Jondi and Spesh (by David Lockeretz) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000432.html Wonderful Johnson (by David Lockeretz) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000423.html Chris Yarchuck (by David Lockeretz) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000424.html Rob Bodle (by Stacey Board) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000420.html Robin Eye (by Stacey Board) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000421.html Pete Leary (by Stacey Board) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000419.html Kenny Camacho (by Stacey Board) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000434.html Laura Massaro (by Stacey Board) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000433.html Boo-Ray (by Gian Fiero) http://musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000437.html --------------- ****** For bios on each of the reviewers, see http://www.musesmuse.com/musicreviews.html . If you're considering sending in your own CD for review, you can also view that page to find out which reviewer reviews your genre. Thanks! Back to Menu ================================================================= S o n g w r i t i n g B o o k R e v i e w : by James Linderman Edly's Music Theory for Practical People - By Ed Roseman http://www.edly.com/mtfpp.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- The originality of this book, as a scholarly resource, starts at the cover. Dr. Seuss style characters in vibrantly coloured costumes prancing around, quoting accolades for the book by such music luminaries as, Windham Hill artists Alex de Grassi and the late Michael Hedges. Jack Perricone of Berklee College fame and Dr. Lampl from Julliard are the creatures representing the world of the scholarly. Between the covers, the culmination of whimsical humour, back porch sensibility and legitimate academia blend together to produce an effect similar to being at a wild costume party and having your closest friends dressed as smurfs, perhaps, endeavouring to teach you music theory. That is... if this seems actually funny to you and they could still be deemed sensible, and only if they were actually qualified to teach music theory and they were actually really smart. I know it's a big reach. If you are the kind of person who needs to see serious academic credentials from an author of a theoretical text, especially one this offbeat, (and I do,) it's relevant to note that this author studied at Wesleyan University, Berklee College, and at The University of Michigan. That's a lot of learning... and a lot of tuition. I feel like buying a copy just to help him pay down his student loans. If you are like me, and thought the name Ed Roseman sounded familiar, he's also a guest columnist for Keyboard Magazine. For anyone who finds all this education and credentials a little intimidating, relax. This is the first theory book I've ever seen that is written like the author knows that we are not all born knowing this stuff and that we are not to be treated like we are idiots for not knowing it. The tone of the book is relaxed but efficient, as the author seems really keen to share his information and is very, very respectful of the learner. I hate intellectual snobbery so this is quite important to me. Highlights for me: The Charts! There is a reference chart for almost everything in this book and I'm a chart fanatic. "Show me the big picture" and let me explore it and if I get confused, then I'll go back and read the instructions... and they'd better be there... and they'd better be good. As dysfunctional as this sounds, this is how I learn, and how I see lots of other people learning. This book completely delivers on all counts to every kind of learner or anti-learner of music theory. From teaching notation, to showing a fresh approach to improvising, from demystifying the circle of fifths to providing lots of very cool chord materials. It's all presented as "applied" theory not just "stare into a book and watch yourself become compost" kind of music theory that we've all seen before. All of the materials in the book are written to be suitable for exploration on any instrument, but it would be helpful to have a keyboard or guitar within arms reach to produce all the harmonic stuff. This is an especially good read for those who gave up on music theory because they figured out how dreadful it is... but need it desperately to progress with their song craft and musicianship. I mean, you just have to love an academic theory text that has a quote by the author recommending that this would make great bathroom reading, in that it is entertaining and informative enough to compete against all the other bathroom reading materials revered by musicians. Hmm... I wonder if my keyboard will fit across the top of the toilet tank. You can find out more about Edly's Music Theory for Practical People and even buy yourself a copy at http://www.edly.com/ . ****** ABOUT THE REVIEWER: James Linderman lives and works at theharmonyhouse, a music lesson, songwriting and music pre-production facility in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. He is the Songwriters Association of Canada regional coordinator for Newmarket and leads a music workshop program for Life 100.3 Christian radio. James writes songwriting articles for The Muse's News web magazine, Canadian Musician Magazine and Professional Musician Magazine. 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Back to Menu ================================================================= M u s e ' s C l u e s : by Irene Jackson ©1998-2003 Moonstone Productions All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ear training is one of those elements I often take for granted because I've always been able to play by ear. But sometimes I come across a guitar student who really struggles with identifying the difference between two notes: is this one higher or lower? Tuning a guitar can be a real struggle for those who don't have natural ear-ability :-), and recognizing intervals and chords is next to impossible! This month, rather than devoting my column to one particular website, I thought I'd point you to a page that features a collection of software, some shareware, all dedicated to ear training, sight reading, sight singing and "groove training". 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Printed with Permission. ----------------------------------------------------------------- It is likely that the mere thought of Black History Month conjures up individual images in your mind of Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, perhaps Mohamed Ali, or possibly Duke Ellington, since many of us are musicians... Maybe you get a more corporate image in your mind regarding Black History Month like the 1963 March on Washington where a quarter of a million blacks converged on Lincoln Memorial or the thought of a whole planet watching CNN coverage of the video tape footage of Rodney King. Even our varied opinions, vindicating or condemning O.J. Simpson, become a part of black history. Whatever your perception, it is likely to be comprised of a blend of personal experience, historical fact, the news of the day, and Hollywood dramatization and it's mandate in molding public perception. Here in Canada, many of us, born in the suburbs in the '50s, grew up knowing very few black people. There had been only one black student in my entire school by grade 8. He played the bass in a band that I played guitar in, which also happened to be deafeningly loud and hideously unmusical. We were together 3 years... and 0 gigs, and I've not had more fun playing guitar since. When I got to University I got to know a lot of black students and began to perceive the Canadian black experience to be as much about isolation and aloneness as it was about prejudice and racial discrimination. There are in fact, many "little known facts" about black people in Canada that might have inspired and galvanized them as a people had we not been so mesmerized by the American media and the making of history taking place in The United States. 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I ran an investment bank for a number of years and was regularly held up at gunpoint and told that we had to jack up so-and-so's pay to prevent him or her from leaving (usually for Goldman Sachs and invariably for "twice what they get here"). Sometimes I paid up and sometimes I didn't, but the outcome in the long term was usually the same; people came and went, the business went through peaks and troughs but life carried on. In the febrile days of 2000, my predecessor was told that the very survival of our 200-year-old firm was dependent on the continued employment of a 20-something individual who had been in the industry for about 18 months. We offered him a partnership but he left anyway. A few years later, I reminded my senior management team of this incident and none of us, myself included, could remember his name.
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