iGetIt! Music

Online music education courseware for non-musicians who want to learn how to write their own rock songs.

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Name: Jim Plamondon
Location: Austin, Texas, United States

This blog documents the development of JIMS iGetIt! Music System (JIMS). JIMS' goal is to help you Understand Music in 24 Hours™, if you are (a) a non-musician (b) who wants to learn how to write your own rock songs. Requiring no instrument other than your own computer, and without using traditional notation, JIMS is being designed to deliver a deep understanding of tonal structure...in just 24 hours.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Guthman Musical Instrument Competition

The Thummer is a contestant in Georgia Tech's Guthman Musical Instrument Competition, being held later this week.

Dr. Monty Cole, a high school friend of mine, happens to work just down the road at Mercer University, and has kindly offered to present the Thummer there on my behalf.

Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get one of the (rapidly aging) Thummer prototypes working, so the presentation will rely on videos of other people performing on it, rather than a live performance.

Here's the presentation, as a compressed PowerPoint file:  Guthman.zip

It's super-short, relying primarily on three videos.  I'm not sure that the PowerPoint file will be able to locate the videos properly after one downloads, unzips, and moves them to some other file folder. One may need to open the presentation in PowerPoint, go to the slides that contain the videos, double-click on the video graphics, and update the video-link to reference the video files' new location.

Why do the videos have a "Wondershare" logo across their upper-left corner? Because I used a trial version of Wondershare's Video Converter for Mac to convert the video files from WMV to MOV format.

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