Comments on: What's Your Tempo?

By: David Jones

David Jones — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:05:36 +0000

John – you might consider adding “LocalEats” to your iPhone arsenal. It is pretty expensive ($.99), but it shows the top 100 places to eat in a bunch of cities, including Austin. It also provides maps and directions from where you are to get to the places.

No guarantees as to whether their top 100 restaurants list matches anyone else’s list, but it is a slick app. Regards,

David

By: Kevin Howlett

Kevin Howlett — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:07:44 +0000

John, you’re correct, I listened again to “Take On Me” and it’s faster than what I posted. Acutally, after I posted I said to myself “Y’know, John probably checked.”

Having never seen the music myself either I would guess that the music is probably 168 notated out in a fast four which would make the vocal and lead synth lines nearly free of sixteenth notes, simplifying the reading process for the first rehearsal of the tune.

I own the Pat Metheny song book and there are a few tunes in that book that are metered in double time to cut the amount of black on the page. Check out Metheny Group’s “Third Wind”, which is very clearly mm = 150; in the book it’s ultra-fast four at mm = 300.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that we are a couple of fucking dorks.

By: Jake Wallace

Jake Wallace — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:18:35 +0000

Simplify Media is pretty incredible. It’s similar to Remote in that you can use it to control your iTunes library from the mobile device, but you don’t have to be on the same wireless network to do it. So I can listen to things on my school computer at home and vice versa (they also have the app for your computer, if you want to do the same thing without an iPhone). You can also tag up to 30 other users (friends) whose libraries you can then also share.

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:29:05 +0000

I was honestly torn about what tempo to indicate for “Take On Me.” According to my tap, it’s either 84 or 168. (Do you not think I checked before posting that?! Having never seen the sheet music, I’m not sure how it’s notated…

By: Kevin Howlett

Kevin Howlett — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:25:55 +0000

Remote is used almost constantly by me for my Apple TV. It’s a much better way to interface with the unit than the Apple Remote.

I realize it was a joke when you typed it down, but I really think Take On Me is more like mm = 152.

I had a really good idea for an iPhone app that I can’t implement because I have no idea how to program…like so good I don’t want to talk about it here where someone could read about it and steal my idea.

…I’ll…be…gone….in a day or…TWOOOOOOOOOOOOO