Now that the Corona Pandemic has disrupted our music life we’re reminded how dramatically music plays a part in keeping people’s spirits up. Let’s collect “stay-at-home” music resources here.
Our local (SF Bay Area) musicians are playing and broadcasting their music. Here are some wonderful streams to continue to connect with local artists. Please post ideas below or send via our contact page and we’ll add them to the list.
SF Symphony’s principal oboe Eugene Izotov plays Bach for you:
SFJazz has a great YouTube channel, and so does Voices of Music.
SF Symphony is streaming its great Keeping Score series for free.
Please send us links of your own or to your favorite local artists!
Check out this terrific NPR site that updates worldwide livestreams.
And there are some active learning resources online, too, here’s a violin practice tips blog sent out by CMNC (Chamber Musicians of Northern CA).
If you have any other ideas please post here or send via our contact page to share with your fellow musicians. Or write about your experiences as a stay-at-home musician – we’d love to publish your blog entries. Let’s all stay active while we’re stuck at home.
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A few more interesting resources that came over the transom this morning:
Article about holding band practice online
Piano accompaniment tracks index
How to keep your keyboard clean and safe from virus
Tons of videos from Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
I would like to add one more page with accompaniment:
Accompaniments for violin students – https://e-classica.net/en/piano-accompaniments/
A very large selection, especially the concerts.
Lots of songs to use for free (for beginners and jazz).
Here’s a listing of online music classes.
Want some music apps for your android phone? AMN friend Chris Terpin writes:
“My wife and I make Android and Kindle apps mostly as a hobby. Because of the COVID19 outbreak, we have made all of our musical instrument apps totally free. Our Autoharp apps are pretty fun for composing tunes and they are ad free and have no in-app purchases. Sorry we don’t have iOS versions yet.
Our SharpHarp app is the most popular so far.”
Here’s a great link for chamber music mini-coachings from ACMP!
From Nicholas Pavkovic: some really good overviews of how to collaborate with other musicians from a social distance.
Berklee College of Music Online
Tunecore: Assessing your Video Strategies
Here’s a great compendium of online resources from Johnson String Instrument Co. in Boston.
Here are two summaries of online learning and teaching resources
from Yamaha
and from Strings Magazine
Just curious if you could help many of us with suggestions of programs being used to make ensemble performances. We have been struggling with A Capella and Adobe Pro, which take hours of time for short pieces of music. What else might be available? Anything new or easier out there that people have had success with. We really miss playing together!
Hi Vern, great idea. I don’t know but am looking into some resources for how to get good results without having to commit to becoming a video editor 🙂
We have also been discussing having a workshop on these tools, and we’re looking for an expert mentor. Hope to have something soon.
Thanks!
Hey here’s a great website called Thingamajigs with mini-seminars about musical topics of interest.
Here’s a tutorial for the Soundjack technology for remote ensemble playing in real time. It looks amazing! Warning: you have to have a really serious broadband connection (75 mbps is suggested) and an outboard audio interface. But! If that sounds like you, this might be a really terrific option.
From Danielle Napoleon: “Found this and wanted to share! This is heartbreakingly beautiful. Written during the quarantine. Those of you who sing should sign up and lend your voice.”
Composer Eric Whitacre has composed a new piece during the Quarantine, and invites singers to join!
School of Rock has some good tutorials for beginners.
General info and specifically for singers.
Don’t miss our AMN technology workshop “In the Home Studio with Seira McCarthy.” Seira will help us prepare the tech resources we need for recording and sharing audio and video music projects while we’re stuck at home.