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The bookmarks below appear in alphabetically-sorted groups.

blogs

  • 43 Folders

    43Folders.com calls itself: "Merlin Mann’s website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work." Philosophies, stuff to consider, and other useful meanderings.
  • Slow Leadership

    Slow Leadership provides a different [moderately idealistic] point of view on common workplace topics: relationships, problem solving, time use, planning, and the like. The SL blog provokes readers to reconsider solving those obvious, life-changing problems that get left behind in the flood of more important work.

Brass-related

  • MusicForBrass.com

    Brad Howland (Canadian trombonist) has a small music publishing business online. Not to be missed is the MFB.com article library, which includes an essay on that curious bother named player's 'kitch', also called valsalva, hesitation, and quite a few other things.

Music Resources

  • Staff Paper (Univ of Virginia)

    Perry Roland is one of the repository librarians at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville). He has generously collected PDF and Postscript (PS) staff paper files of various sizes and styles - choral, instrumental, many or few staves per page. An excellent resource for basic materials.
  • Victorian Music Library

    The Victorian Music Library is a non-profit collection located at the Uniting Church Archives in Elsternwick, VIC. The library includes more than 15,000 instrumental and vocal solo, chamber, and large ensemble works - a very important resource in Melbourne and Victoria music community. Consider joining, or volunteering your time to help them in their work.

Musicians

  • Carol Jarvis

    Tenor trombonist Carol Jarvis was a founding member of the incredible women's trombone quartet Bones Apart. She keeps busy as a jazz and classical player, writes, and travels extensively. Check out her blog.
  • Doug Yeo's Site

    One of the earliest trombone-related sites, YeoDoug.com is thorough and growing.
  • Hank Feldman, Tubist & Euphoniumist

    Hank has some serious tuba & teaching chops. Check out some of the samples on the CD page.
  • Jay Friedman's Blog

    Jay Friedman, Principal Trombonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He's organized.
  • Kela Walton - Harpist

    Austin, Texas based harpist & educator Kela Walton.
  • The Grainger Wind Symphony

    The Grainger Wind Symphony is an high-level community ensemble that draws music professionals and established amateurs from the Melbourne metropolitan area. It performs standard repertoire and also provides a forum for new works, especially world and Australian premiers.
  • Tom Ervin's Site

    Tom Ervin keeps some good gems of thought & articles online.

Reading

  • The Open Library Project

    Like wikipedia, but as a card catalog. Includes full text for some thousands of public domain works. If you can't find your book there ... add it.

teaching

  • Method Behind The Music - Flash Piano

    Numbera.com is a collection of basic theory articles & lessons. There is also a nifty flash-based piano, useful for pitches in a pinch when a real instrument or tuner isn't available.
  • Ricci Adams' Music Theory Site

    Ricci Adams keeps a collection of flash-based music theory aids. They include interval and clef trainers, ear trainers, and lessons on various fundamentals. A great resource for students (and pros who want to brush up on all their clefs!).
  • VCE Curriculum Mat'ls - Solo Performance

    This VCE information (VCAA website) includes the study design, outcome requirements, prescribed music list, etc. You can download a PDF of the Music Performance Lists and Design under the Curriculum section.

Tech Hardware

Tech Software

  • Google

    What can I say? The definitive search engine.
  • Mozilla Songbird

    Mozilla Songbird is an iTunes alternative. As of 2009, Songbird is in heavy development (ie beta), so expect it to be incomplete. It is, nonetheless, an excellent tool.
  • Open Source Alt

    OSAlt provides a long list of open source and commercial software, organized by function. Each description includes suggestions for open and commercial alternatives.
  • Time Left

    A simple, floating timer. Good for use as a stop watch or as a countdown timer ... good practice timer in a pinch! (Windows-based)

Thinking Tools

  • Spreeder

    Spreeder is a speed-reading display tool. Paste in a chunk of text, and it will flash it up to you at whatever rate you like. It offers a variable WPM, chunk/group size, and other features. Try it out.

Trombone

Typing

  • Dvorak typing tutor

    Another useful Dvorak typing tutor. This tutor is largely based upon full words. If you haven't, do the Powertyping tutorial first.
  • Powertyping.com

    Typing tutorials for both Dvorak and QWERTY keyboard layouts. Great tools for building typing proficiency and speed.
  • Typefaster Typing Tutor

    Typefaster is an open-source typing tutor. If you are serious about improving your typing skills, this is a great way to do it. Typefaster even includes Dvorak-specific tutorials. Sourceforge software and projects are always spyware free.

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