YouTube settings with HTML5
Most guitarists and other musicians like to learn from YouTube.
When the guitar player is moving quickly, it is helpful to slow down the video with this trick that uses an HTML5 browser.
1. Go to YouTube and turn on the HTML5 Trial
2. Update your internet browse to support HTML5. YouTube lists the most common ones that do.
Bob Dylan Not Dark Yet
“Not Dark Yet” is one of the finest Bob Dylan songs from his late period masterpiece “Time Out of Mind”.
A fan posted this rare concert video. The world-weariness Dylan wrote about in the atmospheric Daniel Lanois 1997 production seems even more poignant with Dylan’s current singing voice.
By Stephen Pate and Mike Masnick, Techdirt – Ah, the insanity of music licensing.
There’s apparently a biopic of Jimi Hendrix being made, starring Andre Benjamin (better known as Andre 3000 from Outkast) in the leading role.
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Avid Pro Tools Mbox division sold
Avid makes the Pro Tools audio editing software (DAW) that is used to make more movie soundtracks and recordings than any other program.
The founders of AVID created the genre of non-linear audio editing. That has not been enough to keep them profitable.
CBC reported that Universal Music Group is issuing take down notices against an indie band from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
In-Flight Safety had two of their songs including ‘Out of Sight’ removed from YouTube.
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Clips from the Smithsonian Folkways Concert in honor of Ella Jenkins at the Music Center at Strathmore, 2005.
Pete Seeger is 93 years old this year and continues to an American and world entertainer, educator and protest singer.