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Vocabulary – Part 17

12 Tone Music Music which uses a 12 tone chromatic scale and plays each note from the scale an equal number of times. Blue Note A note which is not diatonic to the key such as lowering the third or

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Vocabulary – Part 12

Picardy Third:  When a minor key song ends on a major chord. Parallel compression (aka New York compression) : Creating two copies of a signal, one heavily compressed, the other either dry or very lightly compressed and mixing them together.

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Music Development Workflow

We found a pretty good workflow a couple sprints into this project.  Ohm Studio worked well for us, since we could work as an agile team with independent efforts through a sprint, but still produce a great sounding final product.

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Software and Music

If you aren’t aware of how the Agile Music Project works, go read the first couple posts, or the about page, for a description of how we are attempting to use agile software development practices for creating music.  Specifically, we are

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Recording Software

The second obstacle we dealt with is software.  There are a lot of recording packages out there of varying quality.  Audacity is a long standing favorite in the free software world, but it does lack some features and ease of

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Getting sound

The first obstacle you will have to overcome is how you will physically record your instruments.  We were lucky to have access to an electronic drum set that had audio output capabilities.  This saved us from having to mic a

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Thoughts and lessons from recording.

So AMP has been recording our first few songs and we are currently working on our second original song.  For most of us, this is our first venture into playing in a band and recording songs.  I wanted to make a few

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