• Online concerts during the pandemic (musicians—and those on their team, and in the communities to which they tour, and so on—are losing STAGGERING amounts of their income, with no sense of when they can get back to earning a living; PLEASE consider supporting music through online concerts!!)

  • Upcoming (at time of initial writing!)

    • https://www.facebook.com/chirsstickmartin/videos/10163288166260174/ Stick Martin

    • Shake Sugaree Americana Global Epidemic Online Tour

    • https://www.moogmusic.com/news/musicians-come-together-moog-musics-synthesize-live

    • The Stream Warriors: Local Artists to Watch During the Coronavirus Shutdown, Part 1

    • Watch Live from Here online

    • https://twitter.com/yoyo_ma/status/1246468243411349505?s=21

    • Andrew bird 

  • Past

    • LIVE! A Tan and Sober Pajama Party!

    • Live from Home (and some past Live from here) 

      • Chris Thile plays Gillian Welch's "Hard Times" (https://www.facebook.com/LivefromHereAPM/videos/2620755908159105/)

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• Random music stuffs

  • https://youtu.be/rdPvr2jPcl0 (The Unexpected Chords in 6 Popular Songs: Beatles, Radiohead, Stevie Wonder & More | Reverb

  • A Custom-Finished Fender Worth Five Figure$; insurance, appreciation, total cost

  • sweetwater.com - World’s Largest Guitar Effect Pedalboard – A GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS TITLE ACHIEVEMENT

  • Cool live performances (from the past)

    • Brandon "Taz" Niederauer at Paste Studio NYC live from The Manhattan Center

    • IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL (Arr. David Wise) 

      • sweetwater.com - Nashville’s Inspiring Cell Phone Choir - How’d They Do That?

    • https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/821485645/zen-break-our-favorite-drum-prodigy-yoyoka-soma-killing-in-the-name-of-rage

    • Bach in the Rain

    • Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session 1983 

  • Disc Makers is making face shields

  • Billie Eilish mania

    • Billie Eilish on working with Hans Zimmer on Bond theme song and her rise to stardom l Nightline

    • SPACES: Inside the No-Frills Norway Flat Where girl in red Exports Self-Love Across the Internet

    • SPACES: Inside the Tiny Bedroom Where FINNEAS and Billie Eilish Are Redefining Pop Music

    • Interview with Finneas on Pensado's Place

    • Bad Guy breakdown with Finneas & Billie Eilish

    • Billie Eilish guitar tutorials (just to browse and attempt if feeling curious!)

  • Musical Robot Learns to Sing, Has Album Dropping on Spotify; genuinely freaked out by this sort of thing so haven’t read it yet

  • Video: Kids Try Guitar Pedals for the First Time

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• Music Education

  • Cracking the Code of Major Scales (Certainly good to keep practicing the C major scale the way we've explored it so far, but this article does a good job of getting more into the actual theory)

  • GuitarMusicTheory.com - THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAJOR AND MINOR PENTATONIC SCALES, PATTERNS & ROOTS

  • ClassicFM.com -

    • From keen beginners to fun-seeking families: here are the best online music lessons available

    • Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals to stream for free during coronavirus closures

  • Programs/Sites/Channels

    • Eric Haugen's YouTube channel

      • Respect the interval 

      • How to Use Major and Minor Pentatonic Phrases to Improvise Up The Fretboard

      • Music Theory For Guitarists: Target Notes for Telephone Call From Istanbul

      • How to Use Hendrix Doublestops and 6ths to Create a Chill Rhythm Guitar Part

      • How To Combine Bass Lines With Chords - "Way Down In the Hole" Guitar Lesson

      • How to Use the Mixolydian Scale to Create a Richard Lloyd Style Solo - Guitar Lesson

      • David Gilmour Inspired Pentatonic Triplets Guitar Solo / Lesson

      • Drone Scales Guitar Lesson

      • A Sprightly 12 Bar Blues Solo, Aiming for 3rds: Playing to Changes Guitar Lesson

    • Musical U’s Stay In. Play On! 

    • Splice TV on Twitch (daily livestream for music creators)

    • Paul Davids's YouTube Chanel

      • THIS is how you learn the PENTATONICS 

      • 8 Things I regret not doing when learning guitar (most of y’all have probably heard me go on about number 8 quite often!)

      • Why quintuplets are AMAZING (and, if I may add, why learning music is simultaneously—and perhaps even paradoxically—linear and very much non-linear…and always a fun adventure when properly approached!)

      • Paul Davids - The LEGENDARY picking pattern - 'Travis Picking' 

      • Paul Davids - How to Play over Chords ONLY USING THE PENTATONIC scale!

      • Paul Davids - What we should learn from B.B. King - 'The King Of Blues'

      • Paul Davids - 'Just play something...?' | 5 tips to get you going!

      • Paul Davids - Why quintuplets are AMAZING

      • Paul Davids - 5 GREAT chord tricks everyone should know!

    • Marty Music

      • Marty Music - Beginner Electric Guitar Lesson 2 - Power Chords (1 finger/open)

      • Beginner Electric Guitar Lesson 3 - Power Chords (moveable)

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    • Classical Guitar Corner

    • Yousician

    • That Pedal Show YouTube channel

    • UkeTabs

      • https://www.ukulele-tabs.com/strumming-patterns.html

    • UltimateGuitar.com 

• Music creation

  • DAWs & online collaboration

    • https://flat.io/ (“The most intuitive music notation software”)

    • Splice (Royalty-free sounds & rent-to-own plugins

    • Defeat Corona depression with these 10 online music collaboration tools

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  • Free things

    • https://apple.news/ACZiTyUWoRl-mzxhDZOzUqg

    • https://touchloops.com/blog/introducing-beat-delivery/

    • https://musedlab.org/groovepizza

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  • Home Recording (and recording techniques)

    • sweetwater.com - Choosing the Best USB Audio Interface on Any Budget

  • Playing at home

    • Songbooks

    • Useful links

      • Making Music at Home - Sheet Music, gear, games, theory books, puzzles, etc

      • https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/david-bowie-ziggy-stardust-500-piece-jigsaw-puzzle-sheet-music/21695019

  • Live Streaming Resources

    • https://www.facebook.com/twitchformusicians

    • How to Live Stream a Performance

  • General resources for musicians

    • https://www.facebook.com/bandzoogle

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• GEAR

  • Need More Cowbell? - The Ultimate Cowbell Shootout

  • https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/guide-to-ik-multimedia-irig/

  • Improve Your Live Stream with UA Console

• Resources from CMP

• Help for musicians, Artists, Freelancers, and Gig Workers (Donate/Apply)

  • Splice - A curated list of resources for musicians affected by COVID-19

  • Programs/Sites/Channels

    • Musical U’s Stay In. Play On! 

    • Splice TV on Twitch (daily livestream for music creators)

    • Jim James - Resources for Touring Personnel

  • -COVID-19’s Impact on Streaming: It’s Complicated  (https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/covid-19s-impact-on-streaming-its-complicated/)

  • How musicians (and other creatives too) can transition their business online ASAP

  • https://musicunitesus.bandzoogle.com/home

  • A State-by-State Resource Guide for Music Professionals Who Need Help During Coronavirus Crisis (Updating)

  • Music Maker Relief Foundation

  • FREELANCERS RELIEF FUND

• Music enrichment for younger kids (or those of us who are a bit older and feeling nostalgic)

  • Raffi 

  • WeSing

  • School House Rock

  • Spotify kids

Resources - Donating/helping/for those in need

• Restaurant food customer service worker funds

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• Business/work-from-home resources

  • nextdoor.com - New Product Features for Local Businesses in Response to Coronavirus

• Food

  • No Kid Hungry

  • Triangle Online Farmers Market: https://www.facebook.com/groups/236208044200637/

• Unemployment

  • https://www.careeronestop.org/LocalHelp/UnemploymentBenefits/Find-Unemployment-Benefits.aspx

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Resources - Hodgepodge of entertainment

• Hodgepodge

  • 20 Things to Do at Home instead of Banging Your Head Against a Wall (including learn to play a ukulele and make a book nook)

  • LeVar Burton: https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1245155510279495681

(random things from previous email update, a few of my favorite things,)

• A few of my favorite things

  • Fav movies

    • Princess Bride

    • Donnie Darko

    • The Thing

    • Holy Grail

    • The Last Waltz

    • Blue Wild Angel

    • Clue

    • Hendrix Woodstock

    • Harry Potter series

  • Fav books 

    • Lame Deer

    • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    • Red wall series

    • Walden

    • -1984

    • -if you give a mouse a cookie

    • -animalia 

    • -trouble for trumpets

    • -where the wild things are

    • Harry Potter

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  • Podcasts 

    • All Songs Considered

      • NPR’s New Music Friday

    • Alt Latino

    • List from CMP

  • FB groups

    • Disapproving Corgis

  • My fav video games 

    • —switch

    • —-Zelda

    • —-puzzle game

    • —-animal crossing

    • —-stardew valley

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  • My fav board games

    • -clue

    • -monopoly 

    • -stratego

    • -chess

    • -battleship 

    • -werewolf

    • -Quelf (for adults)

    • -Jenga 

• Your teacher

  • Spotify playlists

  • YouTube channel

  • Karol peril album

  • Other projects 

  • -OT

  • —CMP

  • —Nantahala 

  • -Collabs (eg poor pie, Pablo, Orlando, Marty, jimmy?, Jordan?, old tapes n bands n such? Me n Charlene!

  • Old albums

  • FB pages/YouTube channels/Bandcamp pages

  • Spotty playlists, album links

Resources - Online education (and resources for parents)

• • • Stargazing app lessons

• Online learning resources

  • Flypaper

    • Soundfly

      • Guide To Learning Things Online

  • https://learnathome.withyoutube.com/

  • MasterClass

  • https://teachfromhome.google/intl/en/

  • 54 Free Educational Websites Parents Can Access While Schools Are Closed https://www.popsugar.com/family/free-online-educational-resources-for-kids-47311368

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Media Articles & Videos

• National News

  • NPR

    • https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2014/11/26/366616404/lead-belly-im-so-glad-i-done-got-over (a song I’ve been listening to a lot lately!!)

    • https://www.npr.org/series/818275867/our-daily-breather

  • The New Yorker

    • The Group Making Beautiful Quarantine Songs on a Barcelona Rooftop (along with a list of really interesting & useful resources for this time)

• Local News

  • IndyWeek

    • Indy Week Primer 3/25

    • Governor Cooper’s Stay-At-Home Order Starts Monday. Here’s What You Need To Know.

    • COVID-19 Reveals the Urgency of Rethinking Revenue-Based Arts Funding
      The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

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