Free sheet music! Seriously. No crap. It’s like the Project Gutenberg for sheet music.
You just know it’s run by nerds: “All music is available as Postscript (.ps) and PDF (.pdf) files, for both A4 and Letter paper sizes, as well as Lilypond’s own file format (.ly).”
That and the site is barely navigable, a sure sign of true nerd-dom.
CBC Radio 3 Podcasts are available! It’s pretty neat. I subscribed right away, and I’m pretty happy so far.
I have a guitar. I have a PowerBook. I want guitar tuner. Solution? Use my computer! Here are the competitors: AWS Guitar Tuner, Chromatic Tuner, Guitar Shed, Guitar Tuner, and Perfect Guitar X.
AWS Guitar Tuner: It’s a Flash application. That alone should turn people off of it. Beyond that, it’s pretty simple. It has a bunch of preset guitar tunings, and allows you to hear the note so that you can tune by ear.
Chromatic Tuner: Mmm… Pretty… It’s definitely Mac OS X-ish. Very simple. Very clean. It takes an audio input and tells you how close you are to the nearest note. Essentially, the computer does the tuning; you just turn them nobs. The only possible problem is if you don’t know what notes the strings are supposed to play, but that’s not really much of an issue as far as I’m concerned. Very nice.
Guitar Shed: Not just a guitar tuner. It’s got the chromatic tuner, a tone tuner, a place to store your tabs, a place to list your gigs, and a chord reference. It’s pretty nifty overall. However, it’s slow, and it’s more than I’m looking for right now. Still, very cool.
Guitar Tuner: I never really managed to figure this one out. Best as I can tell it’s something like Chromatic Tuner only it doesn’t really work. I’ll pass.
Perfect Guitar X: Kinda like the first one only much better. It allows you to play notes from preset and custom tunings. That’s what it does, and it does it pretty well.
And the winnders are: Guitar Shed and Chromatic Tuner. But Guitar Shed costs much more. That and Chromatic Tuner is to simple and pretty. Yum… Personally, I’d go with Chromatic Tuner unless I knew I was going to get US$13-worth of usefulness out of the other features.
