CYBERMIDI MIDI & Music Blog

Guitarist and Bandleader Jeff Healey Dies in Toronto Hospital

Following a lengthy struggle with cancer, Healey passes away on the eve of the release of a new blues rock album (His First Blues Album in 8 Years)


Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died today (Sunday March 2) in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto. He was 41, and leaves his wife, Cristie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (three), as well as his father and step-mother, Bud and Rose Healey, and sisters Laura and Linda.

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Music Publishing For Today’s Market
by Allen Johnston,

MusicDish Network Sponsor

Before the invention of the phonograph, songwriters earned income by relying on music publishers to sell sheet music and piano rolls of their songs. Even as radio and television replaced the piano in the parlor, music publishers continued to play an important role as popular singers continued to rely upon established songwriters to provide their material. (Tin Pan Alley) However, with the advent of R&B (and especially the Motown era) popular recording artists began to write more of their own songs. Since that time, the music publishing industry has taken on a less important role for singers and a much more important role for revenue growth.

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How many times have you read in an online forum or a web design tutorial that embedded midi (Musical Instrumental Digital Interface) files are “bad"? Probably more times than you care to remember. For the most part, embedded sound files of any kind have been categorized as web site “bling-bling", right along side animated gifs, flashing banners and complex frames layouts. Essentially, they just contribute to unnecessary glitz and clutter that does nothing more than distract visitors and significantly slow page download times.

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CYBERMIDI.com is the official distributor of music for Piano Wizard. Many people have asked exactly how the game translates into a real life learning experience. This article will attempt to explain the process.

While Piano Wizard boasts a revolutionary patented 4 step method, there are actually 6 steps that take you from 0 - 60 on the piano. Here is how the process works.

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Sarah Schmalenberger, hornist and musicologist, has launched the Life and Livelihood Study at http://www.musiciansurvivor.org in order to examine the physical and occupational well-being of women musicians who have had breast cancer. This national study has been designed to develop a profile of how the diagnosis and treatment of the disease affects women musicians. Physical problems during recovery from breast cancer treatment can be particularly burdensome to musicians, because of their physically demanding occupations or avocations. Unfortunately, scientific research on the number of women musicians diagnosed with breast cancer and the medical and occupational well-being of musicians after breast cancer is essentially nonexistent.

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For product information, please visit Music Wizard Home Page.

As a professional MIDI programmer, my job is to take a song and transform it into MIDI data. In short, you are taking all the parts: the chords, the notes, the drums, the dynamics, and reproducing them. As one example, a solo performer can now play and sing along with that MIDI file and can sound pretty close to the original artist’s recording.

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Allegro Multimedia, a leading provider of educational software has chosen CYBERMIDI to create a jingle for Piano Wizard - the incredible video game that can teach anyone how to play piano fast.

You can hear the song at http://www.cybermidi.com/pianowizard or watch this youTube video below.

The choice to home school children is one of the most important decisions that a parent can ever make. It takes courage to go “against the norm". But now that you have control over the education you child will receive, it’s important to choose a well-rounded curriculum.

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Hairspray’s Revolting History: The Invisible Star Of The Film & Broadway Show Won No Tonys
By Polar Levine,

The new movie version of HAIRSPRAY makes this a good time to take another look at this piece I originally wrote back in 2003. It calls up the event that inspired Waters to create the original Hairspray film.

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Dynamic Music Duo Creates WizardTunes MIDI Files To Plug and Play With Premier Version of Piano Wizard^TM Video Game Software.

Seffner, FL October, 2006– It has been said that music is food for the soul. Now Allegro Multimedia and CYBERMIDI have a delicious new way to serve up a delightful menu of music that even people who have never played music before can now play on the piano– quickly and easily. Sound too good to be true? It’s not. In fact, with Piano Wizard’s revolutionary video game software, even little people (as young as 3) are playing Beethoven in an instant.

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Ten Pound Factor releases their debut album

The Ten Pound Factor have just released their debut album, “FED ‘TIL WE’RE DEAD". The duo is comprised of two brothers, Ryan and Chris Chisolm. The music is an intricate layering of instrumentation and vocal harmony: acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitars, keyboards, drums, and percussion. These harmonies are woven to create a sound all its own. The vocal harmonies have a meaning themselves, blending with the music in a Beach Boys style. Yet refreshingly you’ll hardly find any “love songs” here; the lyrics focus primarily on life issues.

Philosophy

Are You Rollin

We receive a lot of material for review, but were quite impressed with this one. The melodies were pleasing enough to satify our musical cravings. While some may find influences from the “glam rock” era of the 80’s, we can take it back even further to groups like City Boy, Be Bop Deluxe and similiar late 70 rock groups. Like the old Prego commercial says, it’s all in there.

You can hear more from Ten Pound Factor by visiting http://www.thetenpoundfactor.com

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For Immediate Release
Pakistan
2.22.05

A series of 5 concerts from Jan 18-22nd has helped raise over $10,000 towards the Tsunami relief effort. The music performed was a mix of American and and Hindi or Urdu music, with the former being contributed to by CYBERMIDI. In total, about 20,000 attended this Paksistani concert series, with most of the contributions by college students.

Ali Moeen, a musician and CYBERMIDI member participated in the event, and programmed much of the Hindi music. “We feel the concerts were a huge success. While the amount raised may seem modest, the average income in this area is quite small, and the funds raised were quite generous in relation. More events are scheduled and with the help of CYBERMIDI we are hoping to raise somewhat near to $50,000 and we will because we are determined.”

Special Thanks to Mr. Ajay Rao who greaty participated and orgainized the event.

Credits go to Nafs(an underground band). Pictured from left to right: Faraz(guest performer), Ali Moeen), Nobel(Guest Performer) and Sir Ajay Rao(vocalist).