By Renegade on Monday, September 20, 2010 7:39 AM

Zack Kim has some of his music available for free here (source).

Here's a video of the band:

By Renegade on Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:58 PM

This Friday, September 3rd, for 1 day only, GDT is 50% off at Bits du Jour. It's a 24 hour sale and after that GDT goes back up to the regular $49.95.

50% Off for 1 Day Only!

The sale won't be repeated, so make sure to schedule 5 minutes to get your copy for half price.

If you want to beat the Christmas shopping rush, this is your chance to get GDT at a fantastic price and beat the Christmas rush all at once!

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By Renegade on Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:45 PM

GDT has a second home now on Facebook here.

The new Facebook page is where YOU will get to say what you want in the 3 NEW versions of GDT coming out!

GDT development is in full-swing now, and I want to know what YOU want in the new:

• GDT for iPhone
• GDT for OSX -- Finally, a Mac version is coming!
• GDT for Windows -- the GDT that so many know and love ... Read More »
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By Renegade on Wednesday, August 11, 2010 3:44 PM

Before we get into how to EQ for saxophone to learn a new song, if you haven't already, I'd recommend reading my post How to EQ for Bass Guitar to Learn New Songs. It has a good amount of background information that I'm glossing over quickly here.

The principles for EQing for a saxophone are the same as for a bass guitar. However, all saxophone, or rather, all tenor saxophone and alto saxophone frequencies are directional, unlike bass guitar which has non-directional sound at the extreme bottom end. The practical upshot is that for saxophone, the audio engineers that worked on the recording you want to learn might have panned the audio either left or right to some degree. We're not going to look at that for the moment as it is a very advanced topic.

So, before you get to EQing for saxophone, you need to know where the sound is in the mix. Tenor saxophone fr ... Read More »

By Renegade on Wednesday, August 04, 2010 1:53 PM

When you're learning new songs, EQing for the specific instrument that you're learning can be challenging. With music mixed down into a single file, there's simply no way to truly isolate the part that you want to hear (see below for an exception).

For when you first start trying to EQ out other instruments and EQ up the one you're interested in, bass guitar is about the best place to start. There are several reasons for this.

First, bass is non-directional. That is, when you hear sound at the bass end of the frequency spectrum, you cannot tell where it is originating from. This why when you get a new stereo system, the setup instructions tell you that you can put the subwoofer anywhere. Subwoofers carry all the LFE (Low-Frequency Effects) sound in movies, and all the bass in regular music. That sound ranges from about 3 Hz to about 120 Hz. 120 Hz is about B2, which is an octave and a half-step below middle C (C4). Which leads us to the second reaso ... Read More »

By Renegade on Friday, July 30, 2010 3:05 PM

More free music for you~! Yep. There's lots of free music out there, and a lot of it is pretty darn good even! ;)

Check out the Free Music Archive for a massive library of free music. Now, a lot of that music isn't totally free as in BSD free, but it's free to listen to at least. A lot is Creative Commons licensed.

Now, not all music is for everyone, but if you like electronic stuff, you may well like "Get Twisted". It's CC 2.0 (Attribution-Noncommercial Share Alike) licensed. So, if you're not using it commercially, and you provide attribution and allow people to share what you create there, then you're good to go. And, Get Twisted is some pretty wicked cool stuff to boot!

You need to sign up to get the most ou ... Read More »

By Renegade on Wednesday, March 31, 2010 9:11 PM

The Good Lord knows I can't sing to save my life, but there are lots of people who can!

I get a fair number of people asking about how to remove vocals, which is sometimes a tad odd as all the answers are here on the web site. In the section about removing vocals from songs and music, I explain a bit about how to do it, and how to preserve bass and the like. A few words there about audio compression and formats to use for better results.

I've also had some questions about saving music that's been pitch shifted with a different tempo (slowed down music) for use with ... Read More »

By Renegade on Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:58 PM

How many times have you heard colleagues complain about <insert expletive> customers and clients? Having been around the block more than a few times, I've heard a LOT of people complain about clients. I know one fellow that sold off his software just to get rid of it because his customer base was just full of horrible people.

I've not got that problem! I'm seriously, really very lucky. The kind of people that use GDT are really some of the coolest people out there. I get emails from people on a very regular basis, and they're really all very positive, happy, nice people. With so much negativity out there (turn on the TV news), it's really refreshing!

And this has been going on for YEARS!

It's nothing new for me. My GDT customers for years have really been a very cool bunch of people to talk with.

I just got another email from someone today, and it reminded me about just how lucky I am.

Th ... Read More »

By Renegade on Monday, February 08, 2010 5:36 AM

Well, it appears that lately some of the major email providers have improved their spam filters. This is certainly a welcome change as I get tired of having to email again and again for no good reason. I've noticed as I've not had anyone in the past while email me about a failed GDT license email delivery.

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By Renegade on Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:53 AM

In a word, WOW! John Boswell has some fantastic videos at SymphonyOfScience.com.

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By Renegade on Monday, August 10, 2009 11:28 PM

Hey, there are worse things in the world!

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By Renegade on Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:59 PM

This is the third time Guitar & Drum Trainer has been honored by the Shareware Industry Awards.

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By Renegade on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:00 AM

In case you haven't read this already, there's a great letter from Blue Jeans Cable to Monster Cable... Read More »

By Renegade on Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:00 AM

Well, maybe not death, but still worthwhile! Read More »

By Renegade on Monday, February 11, 2008 12:00 AM

GDT 4 is well underway and will sport some very cool new stuff that people have been asking for. Read More »

By Renegade on Tuesday, January 08, 2008 12:00 AM

Oh. Yeah. Joy. Joy... Can you tell I'm just thrilled? Read More »

By Renegade on Thursday, December 27, 2007 12:00 AM

Every now and then I get excited at the chance to actually buy some of the movies, tv shows, or music I want online... And it never fails to fail... Read More »

By Renegade on Monday, December 24, 2007 12:00 AM

Reform in the music industry? Yeah. Pass that crack-pipe again! Read More »

By Renegade on Sunday, September 09, 2007 12:00 AM

The music you love was edited - and some errors are still in there... Read More »

By Renegade on Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:00 AM

This new guitar tuner installs on your guitar and automatically tunes your guitar! Read More »