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Desert Island Discs

Posted on April 12, 2009 by ecormier

While I was in school studying music, on more than one occasion, I would hear my profs speak about “Desert Island Discs” ….. music they simply couldn’t live without. Well you may find this funny coming from a professional musician … Continue reading →

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Mencoder – my hero

Posted on February 5, 2009 by ecormier

I’m just starting to fully realize how truly amazing mencoder actually is. It’s helping me do things that I previously thought were impossible. For example, I have a few avi files which were split to fit on multiple cds. Now … Continue reading →

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Guitar Tip #2 – The mess guitarists call ‘legato’

Posted on February 3, 2009 by ecormier

How often have I heard (or more than likely said!) ‘you need to play more legato’ With legato on guitar there are many problems as well as many solutions. Aural: Problem: Very often I find that my students simply don’t … Continue reading →

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Lilypond variables part 2 – different page layouts for parts and scores

Posted on January 22, 2009 by ecormier

“Necessity is the mother of invention” I’m typesetting a piece for 2 guitars and in the end I want to print off individual parts and a score. This can easily be achieved in Lilypond using the following method: First I … Continue reading →

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Lilypond Template

Posted on January 22, 2009 by ecormier

With Lilypond each time I start a new project I start with a template file….here is the code: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% Headers %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \version “2.10.33″ \header { title = “” subtitle = “” tagline = “Eugene Cormier – 2008″ } \paper … Continue reading →

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Lilypond variables

Posted on January 22, 2009 by ecormier

I use Lilypond quite a lot, and over time I’ve realized the usefulness of variables. In Lilypond you can easily make a variable by doing the following: variablename = { whatever you want your variable to contain } let me … Continue reading →

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New Virtualbox (2.1.2)

Posted on January 22, 2009 by ecormier

New Virtualbox today….some of the differences I’ve noticed: Guest additions now work with Windows 7 New icon for Windows 7 Guest additions now work with Ubuntu Jaunty USB pass through now works out of the box with Ubuntu hosts For … Continue reading →

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Guitar Tip #1 – Practicing

Posted on January 22, 2009 by ecormier

Practicing: Obviously people fill tomes about different “practice” methods, and it’s a very complex topic. In this post I just want to write about what I find works for me right now (over the years I’ve tried many different ways … Continue reading →

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Combine noteheads of different values in Lilypond

Posted on January 22, 2009 by ecormier

I’ve been recently typesetting some classical guitar notation into Lilypond and wanting to get as close to the original as possible I noticed that Lilypond was handling doubled notes with different values incorrectly (for my purposes). Here is some example … Continue reading →

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How to recover data from a damaged cd/dvd

Posted on January 21, 2009 by ecormier

Simply use ddrescue…to install in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install gddrescue To use: ddrescue -d /dev/cdrom output.iso It is by far the best/easiest program I’ve seen for rescuing data and it will recover everything possible. (It works great on CDs and … Continue reading →

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