Bill's Conversational Musings

https://tones.wolfram.com/ At WolframTones, they have an amazing list of scales. I noticed they did not have a few scales so I have copied the list here so I can add/change them and add personal comments. This is something I have wanted to explore for a very long time. I found …

https://chordpic.com/ Here is a quick bookbmark for creating guitar chords. ChordPic generates a clean, downloadable image. You can even change the shape of the notes and lable them too. There is a color option as well. When you are done, you can download it as a .svg vector format so …

Going through some old notes I found this nugget of wisdom. "Although the idea is noble, if the execution is flawed, it leaves the customer's story about us crafted by our words and deeds, unfavorable." It's a good quote that basically says to do what you say you are going …

https://www.vipvgm.net/ "Vidya Intarweb Playlist | Video Game Music is a fantastic video game playlist maintained by Cats777 over at Aersia.net." This is great for coding or anything you want background music for. Afterall, video game music is supposed to be in the background anyway. https://github.com/fpgaminer/vip-html5-player

On Facebook, I made a post about a 1980s Paul Gilbert Guitar Player article back in Feb. 2020 about alternative picking. Essentially, this is the exercise he posted in an old Guitar Player magazine and the example is what you see below. It wasn't until the long, pandemic, stay-at-home that …

I created this document because I could not find a good car comparison worksheet. I found many calculated MPG, TCO, and other metrics. Those did not resonate with what we were searching for. So, I created a spreadsheet and modified it as time went along. Usually, it was a result …

Well, it's 2021. I'm testing to see if this old thing still works. I should have been blogging AND vlogging during all of 2020 but I did not. So, I thought I would dust this thing off and see if all the parts still work. So far, so good. I …

Much of what we understand and feel about people comes from watching them act in relation to others and the entaglements they create as the action proceeds. R.V. Cassill, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction, Fifth Edition, 1995 The same can be said about people in their personal lives as …

His face was sweaty and dirty. The sun shone on his face. The day was hot. Nick turned his head carefully and lookded at Rinaldi. "Senta Rinaldi. Senta. You and me we've mad a separate peace." Rinaldi lay still in the sun breathing with difficulty. "Not patriots." Nick turned his …

Update: 8/24/2024 I am revising this post to include updates based on insights I have gained since my last visit a few years ago. I aim to incorporate new information and references that will be valuable for future reference. I am working on a set of reference tracks and software …

So today, I stumbled upon LensCrafters' virtual model. What their software does is takes several images of your face using your camera. It then does some tech magic and wraps the sunglasses on your image. I am sure this is not much different from the puppy dog nose or clown …

Here is another effects pedal that does some amazing things. It takes your electric guitar and makes it sound like a full-bodied acoustic. With this box you can really make quick switches between that classic big acoustic to whatever amp sound you are using then back again. "Standard" is good …

These stomp boxes have come along way from the last time I remember them. This box has a lot of options in it. First you can just play notes in the "Choir" mode to add something to your input (Guitar, keyboard, whatever). Next are the vocoder modes "Vintage" (like what …

Listen to this voicemail I received today. I hate these voice messages. I don't usually use the word 'hate' that often. But these people take it to a whole new level. This is the fourth or fifth voice message I received today. They try to be all scary first by …