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stray411

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USED GEAR
http://www.musicgoround.com/gear/ - Holy Grail of used gear. Updated daily, great prices.

http://www.roguemusic.com/gear.html – Decent prices, weekly updates, 90 day warranty.

http://www.songbirdmusic.com/ - Used gear in Canada, does a lot of vintage. Pricing in Canadian.

http://www.generation.net/~musicr/ - Used gear in Canada, does a lot of vintage. Pricing in Canadian.

http://telesisgear.com/ - Not huge, but decent listing and pricing.

http://www.superpawn.com/category.asp?catalog_name=SuperPawn&category_name=Electronic Instruments – Not a huge selection, but they get some good stuff occasionally.

http://www.harmony-central.com/User_Reviews/ - Various user reviews.

http://www.vintagesynth.org/ - Great synth info.

http://www.prepal.com/welcome.htm – Used gear average street pricing.


UTILITIES
http://mp3.deepsound.net/eng/samples_calculs.php – Various calculators for music.

http://www.bpmdatabase.com/index.php – BPM database.

http://www.the-breaks.com/ - Sample use info.


MUSIC THEORY/KEY PLAYING
http://members.aol.com/chordmaps/part1.htm

http://www.free-online-piano-lessons.com/chord-progressions.html

http://www.musictheory.net/


DIGGING SPOTS (I just got these links, I can’t believe the amount of shit you can download from these places).
http://freealbums.blogsome.com/

http://gojira.com/html/links.html

http://www.kiddierecords.com/

http://recordbrother.typepad.com/

http://www.weirdomusic.com/downloads.htm


BBS
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/index.php

http://board.rapmusic.com/

http://www.hiphopcrib.com/forum/

http://www.futureproducers.com/forums/index.php?

http://forum.hiphopsite.com/
 
A lot of useful links. I wish I could contribute my list, but I'm on so rarely nowadays that my favorites have dwindled away besides here and a few other hiphop boards. I'm always a fan of information sharing, I just wish I had some information to share.

Still diggin' all your stuff, Stray, as always.

-Springfield
 
BTW, Stray, do you actually know how to play the keyboard and read music? Because listening to your beats and that tutorial from a few weeks back, it seems like you do, but I see some links to chords and such that you posted above. Are they just for ideas or can you really play?

I'm gonna be startin' lessons in about a month... not to become Mozart, but to just learn the basic techniqe and chord progressions.

-Springfield
 
NickSpringfield said:
BTW, Stray, do you actually know how to play the keyboard and read music? Because listening to your beats and that tutorial from a few weeks back, it seems like you do, but I see some links to chords and such that you posted above. Are they just for ideas or can you really play?

I'm gonna be startin' lessons in about a month... not to become Mozart, but to just learn the basic techniqe and chord progressions.

-Springfield
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yeh ive looked at piano lessons as a great idea. I have picked up a few books and am looking into this site http://www.musicianuniversity.com/ . I thought this website might be of interest to you too as well. I have yet to try one of their piano corses.
 
NickSpringfield said:
BTW, Stray, do you actually know how to play the keyboard and read music? Because listening to your beats and that tutorial from a few weeks back, it seems like you do, but I see some links to chords and such that you posted above. Are they just for ideas or can you really play?

I'm gonna be startin' lessons in about a month... not to become Mozart, but to just learn the basic techniqe and chord progressions.

-Springfield
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Not really. If you gave me a piece of music that wasn’t too complex, I could figure it out in a couple hours. But, I never took lessons, learned everything I know from Piano For Dummies and various websites. I don’t have proper technique, but I do know the proper finger for scales and chords. I don’t think you can learn technique from a book or site. Then again, technique was never important to me.

One thing I would say though is that I could make progressions and what not before I learned anything about keys. After spending about a week learning, I couldn’t make beats anymore. The keyboard looked completely different to me. Since I couldn’t unlearn what I learned, I had to spend well over a year learning how to play before I could start making beats again. That’s why I started sampling.

I read an interview with Timbaland where he was saying that he only knew a couple chords and didn’t wanna learn more because he thought it would mess his style up. I guess that’s similar to “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. But, it depends on the person….everyone’s abilities and experiences are different.
 
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