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David Raleigh Arnold

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Downloading Music

Music is not shareware, and the owner’s enforceable rights do not depend on your agreement to anything.[1]

Instruction

☸ Beginning Guitar Instruction

☸ Beyond Beginning Guitar

☸ Beyond Intermediate Guitar

☸ Music Theory 101

☸ Banjo Instruction

☸ Harmonica Instruction

Selected Sites and Resources

At some of these sites, you can download music at no charge. Some claim copyrights, but all have some music which is free for you to print, practice and learn. Other resources, teaching sites, music dictionaries, etc., are listed also.

Learning In a Classroom

Fairfax County Park Authority

To sign up for recreation classes, check the Park Authority site.

Updates

See this update file for all my classes, for changes and information of a temporary nature. Please read it if you are currently taking a class or ready to start. Check it if you miss a class, or you could show up to find no one there. It happens.

General Information

This handout contains essential information for students and/or parents of those attending, or considering it.

Miscellaneous Projects

Good Morning to You Solo

HTML

Is there a problem seeing the chord diagrams below? in iceweasel or firefox:

edit--> preferences
        default: Times New Roman
        advanced -->
                Fonts for Western
                Proportional: serif
                Serif: Times New Roman
                sans-serif: Arial
                Monospace: monospace
                [check in box] ``allow pages to choose their own fonts''
                default character encoding: unicode (utf-8)
                OK
        close

view--> character encoding --> [•]unicode (utf-8)

and that should do it. Browsers have “supported” unicode for many years. I can’t convert to PDF very well yet, but I’m working on it. (best effort so far.)

Good Morning to You Chords

If you can hack the second A7, only use the easier A7 for the second measure below.

            D       A7      A7      G       D/a
            o      o o o   o        ooo    oo
          ======  ======  ======  ======  ======
          ||||||  ||||||  ||||||  ||||||  ||||||
          ++++++  ++++++  ++++++  ++++++  ++++++
          |||1|2  ||1|2|  ||111|  |1||||  |||1|2
          ++++++  ++++++  ++++++  ++++++  ++++++
          ||||3|  ||||||  |||||2  2||||4  ||||3|
          ++++++  ++++++  ++++++  ++++++  ++++++

Good Morning to You Accompaniment

D  D / /  A7 / /  / / /  D / /  / / /  G / /  D/a / A7  D / ||

Utilities

Editing LilyPond Source Files for Typesetting.

A few utilities make editing complex music much quicker and easier for typesetting with the LilyPond program. The input is plain text. Most of these are obsolescent on account of improvements in LilyPond which have added functionality.

HTML

This page was re-edited using another utility which speeds up the process. I have found it very useful.

It helped a lot to give up on LaTeX.

End Notes:

§1 All of the music on this site written by myself is subject to an ASCAP license.