tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post60483117713277910..comments2024-03-27T23:55:01.532-07:00Comments on Divisible by 3 [Andrew Stadel]: Capturing Time (musically)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-62376053708567444732013-04-07T21:16:23.187-07:002013-04-07T21:16:23.187-07:00For just off the top of your head, this is great i...For just off the top of your head, this is great insight. Thanks Gregory. Music is cool! For sure. I really like your idea about time signature. Sorry the Internet and bandwidth was a hurdle.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-77174353802600417552013-04-07T21:13:20.052-07:002013-04-07T21:13:20.052-07:00Great points man. Thanks for the feedback. I just ...Great points man. Thanks for the feedback. I just posted the full lesson at 101qs.com found at this link.<br />http://www.101qs.com/2095<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06699410662148629132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-36493472139357235922013-04-06T12:24:28.401-07:002013-04-06T12:24:28.401-07:00I think that what you're trying to accomplish ...I think that what you're trying to accomplish with estimating song length works better with the picture of the iTunes bar, rather than the video of a record. I think that a picture works better because you can force students to use 1:26. With a video, you could pause it at 1:00 or 2:00 and not have to worry about the seconds as much.<br /><br />It's also not obvious as to what you're looking for with the video. Am I supposed to be thinking about the needle on the record? In reality, the waveform is much more interesting to me. But what do you do with that information?Mr Krafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10308503886516396943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2256375873271579383.post-22185011392862287522013-04-05T18:37:00.216-07:002013-04-05T18:37:00.216-07:00The very fact that when I tried to play this, the ...The very fact that when I tried to play this, the video (listed at 0:41) seemed to take time to spool (necessitating a pause), then after the audio "skip" (at about 0:22) the video suddenly ended... implies that there could be a lot more to this than just "the length of a song".<br /><br />How much longer there is to a song doesn't necessarily equate to when the song will finish playing, not on the internet. What's the bandwidth? How accurate is the progress bar?<br /><br />I recognize though that you're looking for musical connections, more than electronic ones. So how accurate is a MEASURED bar, as in if we pegged it to a metronome? ie- If a song is so long, how many bars of music is that? Does the time signature change? If not, what if it did, what if the song was in 3/4 time instead of 4/4 time? Forget the fact that it would sound more like a waltz, how many extra measures does that add?<br /><br />What is the average length of songs by this composer? Or the median length? Which is a more accurate representation? You've got a visible waveform there too. What percentage of the song would you say is Forte? What about Pianissimo? Even without the visible waveform, at what time in the song will the progress bar reach the "H" in the word "Hits"? What if the font was changed to stretch the entire bar, what then? Wait, that's electronics again.<br /><br />This is just off the top of my head, feel free to redirect my creative energies to something more specific. Music is cool.Gregory Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06547180132612659893noreply@blogger.com