After the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Communist party, many famous Russian composers were forced to flee the country, including the likes of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Prokofiev. Those who remained were put to work in service of the State…
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My husband owns many t-shirts. Most are nerdy and incorporate his favorite things: baseball, Arrested Development, Game of Thrones, etc. Surprisingly, he only owns a couple of music t-shirts at the moment. Here are two…
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When my son was born, he was just the most terrible sleeper. In desperation at around four months old, we decided to try creating a calming, repetitive bedtime routine to lure him into sleep. This never helped him…
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Why does atonal music suck? The canon of Western Art Music (more commonly called classical music) stretches back centuries and you can more or less trace its progression in styles, forms, and complexities in a somewhat linear path beginning in the 13th and 14th centuries. And for the most part, each composer in that chain builds off and is influenced by the composers…
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Calling all musicians and music minded folks. Would you like to be featured as a guest blogger for Zechiel Music Transcription? We’d love to feature your post here! Please follow these guidelines to submit a guest post…
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I have transcribed a lot of music in my life. Thousands of songs. I would be lying if I said that it never gets tedious. But in the process of transcribing all that music, I’ve become aware of the times that I’m most engaged with my work…
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Hey folks, welcome to our first open thread blog. As you may or may not know, I started Zechiel Music Transcription back in 2001 as a teenager and grew the business out of my dorm room at USC. Those of you who make music your business, how did you get started and what have been your main struggles as a working musician? Sound off if the comments below!
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Singing is perhaps the purest form of music. The source of the sound is in your very body, creating a physiological connection to the music that isn’t present when the instrument is externalized. Not only that, but interweaving language…
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If you are the parent of a preschooler, there’s a good chance you have heard of a magical show called “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.” If you don’t know, this is a show based on a character…
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Doe, a deer, a female deer. If only it was that simple.
Solfège is a method used to help teach people to sing, with each syllable (do re mi fa sol la ti) corresponding to a note in a standard diatonic scale…
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About four years into our dating relationship, John and I broke up. Obviously this story has a happy ending as we are married with two kids now, but we were broken up for about five months in 2010. There were many reasons for this temporary split, most of which I won’t be going into here, but one of the reasons was this…
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You’re at a dinner party, the doctor’s office, passport control…
A: “So what do you do for a living?”
B: “I’m a singer”
Best case scenario, the response is something like this…
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My mother tells a story that when I turned six, she announced to my Dad, “Alright, it’s time to start him on piano lessons.” “This was news to me,” my Dad will interject at this point in the recounting, “as neither I, nor any of my sisters had music lessons growing up, but your mother seemed adamant…
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Meet the “team” here at Zechiel Music Transcription! It’s literally just us! John handles all the transcription, arranging, engraving, emails, and one on one customer interactions…
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My husband is a musician. Since you’re reading his blog, you probably know this already. What you may not know is what it’s like to be the WOAM (Wife of a Musician™). Here are five facts about being a WOAM…
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One of the frequent questions I get from clients regards the proper use of key signatures. When we take music lessons growing up, we’re taught that the purpose of a key signature is to avoid having to write all the sharps and flats in the music – that we can just put those sharps and flats…
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I play the organ every Sunday at a Presbyterian church in Southern California, and sometimes people will come up after the service and marvel at all the buttons and stops and pedals and compare it to the control panel on the space shuttle. I’ll often get a question something to the effect of…
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Rock music and classical music have a lot of similarities. They also have many differences. It’s not surprising then that I often have classically-trained musicians, who are thinking like classically-trained musicians, asking for transcription requests of rock and pop music..
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