NEWS Apple GarageBand new Jam Pack 3: Songwriter Rhythm Section Rock, Alternative, Country (10/22) Apple introduced two new Jam Packs for its GarageBand music creation software, giving musicians and aspiring musicians alike all of the loops and software instruments they need to create music in the genre of their choice. Jam Pack 2: Remix Tools makes it easy to produce compelling dance, hip-hop and electronica tracks; and Jam Pack 3: Rhythm Section offers songwriters a complete backing band to help build a professional sounding foundation for their rock, alternative and country music. “GarageBand and the original Jam Pack made it possible for anyone, regardless of their musical background, to easily create great sounding music on their Mac,” said Rob Schoeben, Apple’s vice president of App | Ultimate Music Theory Reference online! Scales,Chord,Music Theory, Songwriting & Composing (02/10) Musiciansnews.com today launched its online Music Theory Reference. Forget about chord books, scales books or basic music theory books. All they can offer is a limited number of scales, chords and music theory. Stringed InstrumentsFor stringed instrument players (guitar, bass, banjo etc) the online reference features millions (!) of chords and chord diagrams.But Musiciansnews.com Scale & Chord reference is more! A normal scale or chord book might show you the chords and scales for a standard tuning. The online scale reference has over 25 tunings for guitar, including 7 string tunings! Like:Standard, Hendrix, Open A, Open D, Open E, Open D5, A sus4, Low C, CD, CG, Drop D, D Modal, D Minor, D7 | Songwriters create tribute album to garth brooks to be released april 10 (03/06) In The Beginning - A Songwriter’s Tribute To a{Garth Brooks} will be released on April 10th on VFR Records. The album, produced by Pat Alger and Kent Blazy, features eight acclaimed songwriters performing the songs they wrote and Brooks made famous. The songwriters on the album are Alger, Tony Arata, Larry Bastian, Dewayne Blackwell, Blazy, Stephanie Davis, Victoria Shaw, and Kim Williams. Among the 16 songs featured on the album are “The Dance,” “Friends in Low Places,” “The Thunder Rolls,” “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” “The River,” “We Shall Be Free,” “Unanswered Prayers,” “Wolves,” and more. The album also contains one new song written by Blackwell and Earl Bud Lee: the humorous sequel to “F | ILIO announced Hot Steel Blues, produced by Dan Portis-Cathers and a follow up to his Fing (01/20) ILIO has announced the release of two new products at NAMM. The first is Analog Meltdown, a synth library produced by Kevin Wakefield, formatted for use with Akai and Kurzweil samplers.The second release of ILIO at NAMM is Hot Steel Blues, produced by Dan Portis-Cathers and a follow up to his Fingerstyles CD-ROM. Hot Steel Blues features over 800 phrases divided into Patterns, Melodies and Endings arranged into Construction Kits that can be assembled and mixed to create complete, seamless songs. The phrases were performed by Terry Robb, of Steve Miller, Buddy Guy and John Fahey fame, using an assortment of electric and acoustic guitars. These include a Martin 000-28, a 1920's Weissenborn lap | vocal ensemble ArtSong Nouveau at Bard (/) "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is the title of the concert performance by the vocal ensemble ArtSong Nouveau on Wednesday, April 10, at Bard College. The program, presented by The Bard Center, begins at 7:00 p.m. in Bard Hall and is free and open to the public.ArtSong Nouveau cuts across musical genres, performing works from Leonard Bernstein to Fats Waller to the Grateful Dead. Their program at Bard will include renditions of Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man," Joni Mitchell's "Blue," Tori Amos's "Silent All These Years," Freddy Mercury's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Kurt Weill's "Alabama Song" and "Moritat von Mackie Messer" from Threepenny Opera,Gustav Mahler's "Um Mitternacht | | TOP PRODUCTS |