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The interactive resources for musicians at insidethemusic.co.uk are designed to help you with your aural skills. Please comment and discuss here!
discussionsThe interactive resources for musicians at insidethemusic.co.uk are designed to help you with your aural skills. Please comment and discuss here!
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 pm
I took the Aural Test. Your site gave me answers and said I was wrong in 8/8.
I WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT THROUGHOUT - YOUR SITE IS MISLEADING!!!!
Your inability to accept correct answers means that the rest of your site is questionable. Who is checking all this?
Sack him/her!!!
September 4th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
David - thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. The site’s host did a server upgrade and all the php scripts that mark answers now fail! I am currently chasing a solution and apologise for the inconvenience. I can assure you that the tests are rigorously checked and apart from this technical error have not been erroneous in the past.
October 14th, 2007 at 6:12 am
what is the difference between grace notes and ghost notes, i know when using a ghost it should be half as loaud as a normal stroke but what is a grace note?
October 14th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Hi Baillie - I guess you were looking at drum notation? Or maybe guitar? I don’t have any examples of grace notes or ghost notes - or at least I don’t think so! A ghost note is ‘ghosted’ or implied and is notated as part of the rhythm of the bar. A grace note is an addition to the notated rhythm, squeezed in as a subtle passing note. An example would be a flam stroke. The grace note is written as a small note symbol, immediately before the main note.
There’s an example here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_note
January 24th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
An extremely useful site. I use it quite regularly now with my fast track music GCSE/AS level group. They also use it at home. Some really good exercises presented in a sensible way. We would prefer to have harmonic/melodic minor scales in the exercises where natural minor is used. Great stuff, thanks again.
January 25th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
The auto-marking scripts (most of them) have stopped working due to a server upgrade - not sure when I’ll be able to fix this. Apologies
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:40 am
Pete, I love the work you are doing here. I think the potential is tremendous for many variations of applications in music, education and music education! I can’t wait to try the other resources there and the linked sites. Thanks for your hard work. I hope it is OK to post your site on the musicbridge site. We are offering a EVO Music in the Classroom course for the 2008 season and I want to offer this site for them to use or just to see how well it is put together.
Cheers,
Lee
February 13th, 2008 at 9:54 am
This looks like it will be an acceptional model for how music can be studied online. Love it. I write for an education technology blog, and would love to learn more about where things are going, and what people can expect in the future. Thanks for the hard work put into this site.