Day 42: Homemade piano – 100 days of practice
Day 42: Homemade piano (100 Days of Practice) By Alternative Intonation on Facebook with PlayScore Sheet Music Player and Music Reader
Types of guitar
Nowadays we have many different types of guitar, however the instrument has a fascinating history, as the guitar’s true origin has never been conclusively proven. Similar stringed instruments evolved over the years, but we do know that the guitar [...]
Religious music
Religious music (also known as sacred music) is defined as anything that has been written as devotional to any given faith. Many stone tablets depicting hymns have been uncovered from ancient times, with The Hurrian Hymn to Nikkal believed [...]
Music for trad jazz bands
Whatever style of jazz you’re interested in, PlayScore 2 can be a useful addition to your toolkit. The app can read your standard printed notation and playback your scores – meaning PlayScore 2 can be utilised as an interactive [...]
The String Quartet
PlayScore 2 is an app for string quartets that augments the paper score with a magic active score that can not only play the music, but that you can use to practice and to learn how the music and [...]
Easy piano pieces
When you’re starting out, finding easy piano pieces can be tricky if you don’t know what to look for. Often we have our goal pieces of music in mind that we want to learn as soon as possible, but [...]
Harmony and counterpoint
Harmony and counterpoint can be confusing for music students to distinguish at first. This is because counterpoint is a form of harmony, however it is a compositional technique in its own right. While techniques forming two note chords and [...]
Barbershop music
If you’re a barbershop expert or just starting out, PlayScore 2 can be used as an interactive practice tool for harmonising and learning pieces of music. Using Optical Music Recognition technology, PlayScore 2 will playback your sheet music and [...]
Backing vocals
The popularity of backing vocals soared in the 1950s and 60s with an explosion of groups who brought vocal harmonies to the forefront of pop music. Sometimes these harmonies sing ‘ooh’s and ‘ah’s, and other times they support the [...]
Music degrees
There are lots of different types of music degrees that specialise in all kinds of areas within music and sound. Lots of institutions will combine areas and specialisms, however there are a few ways of categorising the main areas [...]