'Cause you said, said he was the one
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Back to basics: Step 1
Arthur
JJC
Outgrowing 17
Dreamer
Poet
Lover
Atheist
Left-Handed Saggitarian

My passions: Step 2
Food
Company
Writing
Movies
Music
Debates


What i am: Step 3
Strengths:
Confident
Sensitive
Eloquent


Weaknesses:
Paranoid
Unorganized
Careless

Dreams of a globetrotter wannabe: Step 4
Paris
Shanghai
London
Gold Coast
Japan(Tokyo)
Rome
Taiwan
Hong Kong
New York
San Francisco
South Korea

Wishlist
My own domain
Scholarship
To publish a book

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Your first step to an orchestra
Monday, July 7, 2008, 10:45 AM

Have you ever dreamt of performing, conducting or composing a piece for an orchestra? Have you ever wanted to play the violin, viola or cello? Here's your chance to do it now. It's free and easy to use. Think you have no talent in music? Fiddle around with this a little and you might find yourself creating music you never thought you could.

It's youth day. What better way to celebrate your youth than to compose your very own song? I happened to stumble across this website about a week ago which allows you to compose your very own musical piece and it's user-friendly. No worries if you are new to music.

Firstly, you have to choose from three types of accompaniment namely two violin, four piece and metronome. An accompaniment is basically your background music. This saves you the trouble of having to compose the accompaniment yourself and allows you to focus on the main melody of the piece. For those of you who don't know what a metronome is, it is a sort of a device that gives off a beep or a tick tock sound at a regular interval. It's largely used for guiding people when they play an instrument so that they don't play the song off-beat. I don't know why it's available as an accompaniment though. It's kind of weird but you never know what you can make out of it.

Creating the melody is simply as easy as moving your mouse on the screen. The screen is basically divided into two parts. Those on the left side of the screen are notes that are not pitch adjusted(not that sweet) while those on the right side are pitch adjusted notes(sweeter in nature). You will get what i mean when you try it out yourself.

The upper part of the screen contains the higher pitch notes while the lower part of the screen contains the lower pitch notes. Depending on what kind of a note you want, you just have to move your mouse correspondingly to that location.The more often you move your cursor around, the more notes you would be playing.

For the melody, you get to choose from 4 different instruments namely two violins, viola and cello. You can use the keyboard to switch between the different instruments.

1-Violin 1
2-Violin 2
3-Viola
4-Cello
C-Clear
P-Pause

The music is recorded through a running loop playback which you will be able to see at the top of the screen. So, you don't have to worry about how to play two instruments at that very same second. :). Once you are done, all you have to do is to click on the save button at the bottom and key in your name and give a title to your own masterpiece.

You can also listen to variations created by others. There is this option, Browse Variations, at the bottom of the screen that allows you to do this.

I created my own piece too. It's titled "Walking in the dark" by Arthur. You will be able to listen to it under "Browse Variations"

Here's the website:

http://contrapunctus.thirdangle.org/

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