Music Calculator

If you’ve ever had to re-score a piece of music, you know that arrangers sometimes spend a lot of time tweaking a single bar. This … Read more

This is especially true when trying to transpose for a wind band, where you try to turn all those headache-inducing sharps and flats into something … Read more

You sit down with a sixteen bar idea and feel the rhythm click. The syllables lock into the pocket, but when you play it back, … Read more

Blow across one end of a length of PVC pipe, and pitch sounds thin and sharp. Trim an inch off one end and try again? … Read more

Pull out a brass instrument and blow a note. It sounds right. At least you think it does. You check your tuner: four cents sharp. … Read more

This shows you how the physics of sound translates into actualy inches of slide movement. Before you play a single note, this tool will let … Read more

When cutting brass tubes there is a mixture of maths and pragmatism. In your mind’s eye, you might know exactly what a leadpipe should be … Read more

If most drummers are like me they think that once you have all the lugs on the batter head matched in pitch then you’re done. … Read more

In Your Hand Take a tuning fork. Hold it in your hand and give it a whack on your knee. Out comes a clear and … Read more

Perhaps you’ve witnessed a skilled engineer adjusting a drummer’s kit. They tightens a lug here, hopping around the head in a star pattern before finally … Read more

On the screen you choose the starting partial (e.g. The second one on an open trumpet), then instruct the app to go up a perfect … Read more

While isolated a drum fill might sound great, when you step back into the groove it all go to hell. It’s never realy a technique … Read more

Most drummers think about tuning as just wondering how far to turn the knob to make it sound right. Fair enough, you may get away … Read more

Set the metronome to a comfortable one hundred and sixty beats per minute and sit down behind the kit. Begin hammering away at those sixteenth … Read more

Attempting to play at two-hundred beats per minute will require looking beyond the tempo alone. The tempo alone doesn’t tell you anything about physical effort … Read more