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…
Read MoreMy 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…
Read MoreCalling 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…
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreDoe, 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…
Read MoreAbout 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…
Read MoreMeet 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…
Read MoreMy 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…
Read MoreOne 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…
Read MoreRock 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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