Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica Polka - looking for a great harmonica polkasong.

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

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From: "Bob Cohen" <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Harp L L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica Polka - looking for a great harmonica 
polkasong.


> On Oct 17, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Vern Smith wrote:
>
> > An iTunes Store search using "polka" as an argument produces 150  hits! 
> > You should be able to find one you like among that many.
>
> This might be a a problem.  iTunes doesn't give away their products  for 
> free. Steve Jobs has to get paid.  It takes a lot of money to fly  and 
> maintain Gulfstream V.

They do almost give them away.

The iTunes software download is free.
30 second clips of the thousands of songs in the "store" are free to listen 
to.
When you choose one to buy, it is only 99c.  This is much cheaper than 
spending $12 or more for an album to get one song that you are interested 
in.  The low 99c price provides us with convenient, affordable music, 
discourages pirating, pays the artists, and provides a profit for Apple.  I 
have a tiny iPod Shuffle (holds 200 songs) hooked up to a ($25) cassette 
adapter so I can play the music through the tape deck in my old '94 car. 
Much more convenient than messing with a stack of CDs or cassette tapes.

The  recordings in the computer are convenient for use when I wish to 
transcribe a song for learning/playing on my guitar and 
Hands-Free-Chromatic.  I start the song in iTunes and use the mini 
controller on the screen.  Then I start my Allegro notation software.  I can 
reset the slider to listen to a few measures of the tune, repeatedly if I 
wish, then write the notes onto the staff.  This way I can nibble my way 
through the transcription a measure or two at a time...all my poor old brain 
can accommodate.  In Allegro, you can transpose to another key by merely 
changing the key signature.  Even the chord names change.  I imagine that 
you can do the same sort of thing with Band-in-a Box.

You can burn the purchased songs into your own CD.

Try it, you'll like it.  I can remember when such things were unimaginable!

I say "Hooray for Steve Jobs!"  He's a creative genius.

Vern