The Website || The New Blog

I've recently been working on a blog system for my website. It's now functional and basically complete, thanks to a little help from FirestormX. I still have a few plans for it, and until those are completed, I'm not making it an official part of the site. However it's still there for trial.

I also redid the rest of the site, making it compliant to XHTML 1.0 w3 standards. I still get a buildup of anticipation every time that I click on the validation link, though.

My First Recording

On Christmas, I received a midi adapter for my keyboard. I have minimal experience composing, but I'm interested in learning about it. This was my first attempt to make anything, from about a week ago. It's my piano's rendering of the midi file, recorded by my low quality microphone. However, I think it sounds better than most computers' rendering of the midi.

A Free Piano Sheet Music Website

Recently, as I was looking for the sheet music for a song that my sister wanted me to play, I found this website.

I know that there are lots of websites out there with free sheet music, but they are pretty elusive, and this one seems better than all of the others I have found.

About half of the sheet music is in pdf format. For the other half, you'll have to download the Finale Viewer.

The current version of the viewer, downloaded for Finale's website, doesn't seem to work. In order for it to work, you have to use the version provided on the sheet music website: For Windows The plug-in also seems to work only in Internet Explorer

This is a little bit of a bummer because it installs some sort of virtual hardware thing called "Finale Viewer Explorer."

One other thing about the music, is that a good percentage of it is transposed into the key of C, I assume for ease of reading. I personally don't like this that much, but its tolerable. In general the quality isn't quite that of purchasable sheet music, but it will give you a taste for the song.

Hmm, after all that, I'm not sure if it really sounds worth while. I guess it depends on how much you want the sheet music.