"Rock House Method" provides instructional DVDs on how to play Guitar, Bass, Drums, and Keyboards.
I have used some of the "Rock Guitar" and "House of Blues" DVD videos by John McCarthy and found them to be excellent. John is a great enthusiastic presenter, who explains concepts really well, and each DVD also has a course booklet with tabs and additional information for the lessons.
Here is a You Tube video of one of John Mc Carthy's typical lessons:
You can ask your local music shop to order the DVD's in for you here in Australia, but I found that it can take weeks for them to arrive. Second time around, I have found it far better to buy my DVDs online from the American "Amazon.com" site.
Note that there are DVD's for Bass, Drums, Keyboards, and Vocals, (by an array of presenters) as well as John's own guitar DVDs.
So if you like what you have seen and heard, then why not buy a couple of John's DVDs and enhance your own Rock playing methods.
My Year 9 maths students are currently learning the basics about Parabolas for the first time, and so they will need an online 24x7 online web-based Help site.
Good old "Wall Wisher" to the rescue, and we built the whole wall in one session, and did not move many post it notes around. This resulted in no problems or glitches whatsoever, and so this approach is definitely the one to use when building walls.
Note that we had previously done all our Internet research and had all the links and items we wanted to put onto the wall in a notepad text file.
However, we did have difficulty getting images to make themselves as zoomable post-its. Even though we built a practice test wall, where the images would display, when it came to building the real wall, they would suddenly decide not to display. It took a lot of fiddling around to get as many colour zoomable images as we now have on the wall to be visible.
So that's about it, parabolas are definitely my favourite shape, especially salt water ones like this classic "Rip Curl" beauty:
Suppose we want to meet up with a friend at a coffee shop. The old fashioned way was to photocopy a map page, and mark a location onto it. This is what I have done to the above image using Photoshop. I could now email that image to my friend, or print it out and send it to them.
But what about using something more modern, like "Google Maps" to mark the location of the coffee shop instead ?
Here is a YouTube video about how to make your own Google map, using "My Maps".
There is also written information about How to Create a "My Map" at this link: http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68480
Here is a map for the Coffee Shop that we created using Google Maps (We have also included the big hotel across the road as a reference point).
The really nice thing about a Google Map is that we can click to enter satellite view, to obtain an aerial photograph of our map like this:
We can also click on the orange colored man symbol on the map, to take us into Google Street View.
Click and drag the orange man away from the plus sign to get into Google Street View. When we mouse release our Orange guy, we get a street view photo. We can even point our guy to look directly at the Vogue House Cafe:
Here is our actual Google map, from the embed HTML that they provided us with:
The only problem is that we included two items on our map: the big hotel, and the cafe, and the hotel symbol is on top. It does not matter, once we zoom in a few times the two symbols will separate. Also in the embedded map, we do not get streetview available. To use streetview, we need to click the link further below.
The other nice thing about the map is that our friend can get directions from wherever they are, to reach destinations we have marked on our map. In the directions lists, it even gives camera icons we can click and then see street view annotated photo scenes of the main road intersections we have to make turns at during our journey.
Finally, here is a PDF document, all about how we made our own Google map:
If you would like to have your own full size copy of this PDF, then simply click the save disk icon button on the PDF viewer, and you should be able to save it to your own hard disk.
Alternatively, you can view or save the full size PDF by clicking the link below:
So making a Google Map, and sending the link to someone by email definitely gives them the full picture. They can zoom in and out, and then also use street view to get right in on those areas of interest that we have marked especially onto the map.
Image Source: www.magix.com Magix Music Maker 15 is a multitrack sound loops music workstation. For around $50 on eBay it is an absolute bargain, and a great entry level music making package. The software comes with great quality samples of drums, guitars, bass, keyboards, percussion, sound fx, Vocals, as well as a full set of effects processors.
It has a really well set out drag and drop interface, as shown here with 4 of up to 16 tracks of sounds that can be assembled while building a song:
If we want to see the whole song at once, then we can click the Overview tab:
The sounds are grouped into "Soundpools" of various genres, that can then be previewed, and dragged onto the recording timeline. Additional sounds and soundpools can be purchased online, or you can find and import your own .wav sounds into MMM 15 to use as well. There is also facility to record external sound by using a microphone plugged into your computer's sound card.
There are also lots of effects that can be applied to each sound loop that we add onto the timeline. These are just some of the items, there are also guitar distortion, compressor, chorus, and delay pedals.
There is even a Vocoder included, which we used to add some background vocals on a techno song we made.
Here is an Alternative Rock Song that we made at Passy World using MMM 15, and the set of sound loops that came with it: (My 10 year old son actually made most of this song, and I just added some extra guitar into it).
Image Source: www.magix.com
Here is part of a Techno Song that was made at Passy World using MMM 15:
Image Source: http://www.redbubble.com/people/leonardo/art/1645217-2-techno (Copy of Image has been purchased by Passy at redbubble site on 1/11/09)
Finally, here is a Reggae Song we made, using some MMM samples that we purchased for around $5 and downloaded from "Catooh":
There is probably the usual free 30 day download trial version available at this site that you can try out for free.
The version we use at Passy World is the standard MM15 shown below:
Magix MM 15 is a great way to learn about the structure of songs, how to assemble instrument parts together, and apply production effects. It is easy to use, and really good fun. Best of all it is quite cheap to buy compared with more sophisticated music software such as Sony Acid and Abelton.
It is also great for making simple drum, bass, and rythm guitar tracks to play along with and practice guitar.
So give it a go and get those big beats blasting out.
Okay so what is Thomas The Tank Engine doing here at Passy's World ?
Well I thought I would share with you some of the weird and wonderful things people are putting up onto You Tube. First there is a whole series of various characters "Firing their Lazers" and dear old Thomas is certainly the star of the show here:
The next clip is for anyone who can remember back to the days of the dial up modem, and all those silly noises this machine would make as it connected up with the distant computer:
Finally, there are a series of "Ernest the Tank Engine" videos on You Tube. Most of them are totally inapropriate for this site, due to the bad language involved, except for this one:
Anyway, that's it for now, I'm off to get my steam up and do some work cleaning up the yard.
Verse C G D A E E E E C G D A E E E E Repeat this chord sequence throughout the song.
And Lyrics:
Hey Joe, where you goin' with that gun in your hand Hey Joe, I said where you goin' with that gun in your hand I'm goin' down to shoot my ol' lady I caught her messin' 'round with another man
Yeah, I'm goin' down to shoot my ol' lady now You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man And that ain't too cool
Hey Joe, hey, Joe, I heard you shot your woman down Hey Joe, hey, Joe, I heard you shot your woman down, baby He said, "Yeah, I did it, yes I did, I shot her You know I caught her messin' 'round with another man"
Yes I did, I shot her You know I caught my her messin' 'round with another man Yeah, and I gave her the gun
Hey Joe, hey Joe Where you gonna run to, now where you gonna run to now Hey Joe, hey Joe Lord, where you gonna run to, now where you gonna run to, baby
I'm goin' way down south, way down south Way down to Mexico way, yeah I'm goin' way down south, way down south, baby Way down where I can be free
Ain't no one gonna mess with me there, baby Ain't no hang-man gonna He ain't gonna put a rope, a rope around me, yeah You better believe it, baby
Hey, Joe, you better run on down, you better Goodbye everybody
Here is a video that shows how to play the chords for the song, with some nice little inbetween runs added in:
And a Tab for the Solo from "911tabs" on the internet:
Band: Jimi Hendrix Experience Song: Hey Joe (Solo) Composer: Jimi Hendrix Tabber: Calum croft Tuning: Standard
key: BU= Bend up to the pitch of note signalled BD= Bend down to pitch of note signalled P= Pull off. H= Hammer on. #/(#)= e.g. 9/(14) This means sound the first note in this case 9 (the grace note) then immediately slide to the next note indicated do not pluck this note it should ring out anyway if your fast enough. X= Pick rake (mute string with fretting hand). FHT= Fretting hand tap (this is just like a hammer on but you don’t sound any note before it. ~= Trill
the arrows are just to show you to carry on and the lines down the middle of the are just the sections i suggest practicing individually before playing the hole thing together.
I also highly recommend Googling on "Power Tab" for Hey Joe, and downloading the version four 5 star tab from Ultimate Guitar Tabs. This gives excellent detail for playing all of the fills between the chords. You will need to have the free "Power Tab" editor software installed on your computer from their site at: http://www.power-tab.net/ . (See our previous post earlier this month all about "Power Tab".
This will help work out things like the low notes run:
Finally, here is some great vintage footage from before my time, of Jimi at the famous Woodstock Concert:
The original game in the tutorial shows how to set up a game where we can match geometrical shapes to their sillouettes. This basic game comes out something like this:
The following is the Actionscript 3.0 Code that was used in these two games:
If you would like to have your own full size copy of this PDF, then simply click the save disk icon button on the PDF viewer, and you should be able to save it to your own hard disk.
Alternatively, you can view or save the full size PDF by clicking the link below:
If you would like to download a rar zip file of all of the resources for these two games, (Including the .FLA source files), then click the following link:
