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One of our visitors asked the following
question and I am pleased to say someone provided the answer -
"Where can I find a wheel I can turn to
find the different keys, how many and what are the sharps or flats in each key, different
chords and their make up etc. What are the sharps and the flats in order of the keys. 1
flat, 2 flats, etc.,"
Apparently this is called a "Chord Dial" and these
can be found on www.musicdials.com.
Thanks to
Janet Drone for answering this one - she was the only person who responded
USEFUL TIP (sent in by
Gerry Jones - Musician)
One of the most useful musical
mnemonic I have ever come across;
Father
Charles Goes
Down And
Ends Battle.
or even in reverse.
Battle
Ends, And Down
Goes Charles'
Father.
This can give you all sorts of
information, such as -
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the Sharps of a key, in
their right order.
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Or the flats, in reverse
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the dominant and subdominant
of every key.
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the basic pattern for the
left-hand buttons of a piano accordion.
I have been very lucky to receive some super links from
a friendly Station Manager at www.wegig.com .
These are sites you may never find in a month of
Sundays ( I hope you know this saying). I am sure they will be well used if only to
settle a dispute after a few beers on a Friday night.
1) Since we are ALWAYS trying to find sheet music for
our musicians, here is a good link for tracking them down http://www.opengroup.com/music/index/hlt7n.shtml
2) We are also ALWAYS searching for lyrics to songs,
which due to much litigation they are proving to be very difficult to find for free
anymore here are a few links that may help.
http://www.converted2.com/lyricland/
http://www.lyricsconnection.com/
http://www.lyrics.com
http://www.gerryjones.me.uk
- Liverpool Lyrics - words to Liverpool folk songs from 1960s.
3) Seems we need to frequently listen to bits and
pieces of certain songs while we are recording and/or writing music. Therefore,
instead of wasting valuable studio time to go to find and purchase the song in question,
we use the following links to download the song and listen to it. Currently there
are some legal battles going on over this capability. Yet these sites are still
legal AND even though we want to protect our music just as much as the other studios and
record companies, we highly doubt this process will hurt our sales much and may even help
sell more CDs in the long run.
http://www.napster.com
http://www.mp3.com
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