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[Dave Phillips]

Greetings,

Recently I decided to learn some well-known rock guitar solos 
note-for-note, with the assistance of some Linux sound and music 
software. Naturally I used Audacity to learn the solos exactly (Change 
Tempo is just toot sweet), but I wanted to work on the sound of the 
solos as well their notes. I found some nicely arranged MIDI files for 
some of the tunes, I used Rakarrack for the effects, and I used 
AlsaPlayer to play the audio files (where I couldn't find MIDI 
arrangements). Great instructive fun.

I've worked out the solos to Cream's Badge and to Dire Straits' Sultans 
Of Swing, now I'm on to Joe Perry's leads in Aerosmith's Walk This Way. 
Yeh, pretty old school, but still great solos. It's excellent exercise 
too, keeps me from getting bored. Sometimes Bach just doesn't rock 
enough... :)

I've also been sequencing a pseudo techno demo, again using only Linux 
audio softsynths, including AMS, QSynth, LinuxSampler (with sounds from 
the PSIndustrializer synth), and the new Discovery VSTi (in JOST), with 
help from the midirgui MIDI channel router and the mighty JACK. I'll 
post the results when it's done.

Anyway, not to get all weepy here, but I wanted to take a moment to give 
some thanks to the developers who make it all possible. So, thanks, 
devs, your generosity is deeply appreciated.

Back to the rack...

Best,

dp