Bringing vintage songs back to life
Here’s an innovative channel. How about adding “found” public domain video to these old songs to make new “movies”!
https://youtube.com/@tomcomau?si=DpBwOG688spozHWW
Tom also has a super easy way to play music by ear. We will be adding more links to his resources. He also tells you about gamification and branding.
These are recordings from the 1920s. There are 4021 in total. The list was donated by Professor Christopher Arthur Vincent Brooks, formerly of College of Charleston, South Carolina.
Listed are title, group, year, dance.
Continue reading “1920s Dance Songs”For each song in our system, there are several steps to accomplish. Here we discuss the five major stages a song goes through. There are variations for each step, depending on the software used. But these basics never change.
Continue reading “Song Process”Use two screens to make song development easier. Below is a photo of James Pitt-Payne’s gear. He displays the sheet music on an iPad tablet in the front. To the right there is a desktop computer running Windows. On the wider screen you see the staff view of Cakewalk, a tried-and-true DAW. You also see a mouse for dragging the notes into their places. The song is from the Disney film Snow White.
