The Internet does well by music – here are a couple of examples.Playing together
Making Music London is one of those delightfully uncomplicated websites that does one thing and does it well. The task here, you will be unsurprised to hear, is to help people in London to make music together. Unless you want to do this hanging around on a street corner, in which case you should try your nearest pub late on a Saturday night, you will need to find a group to join.
You can search this site for groups across the whole of London, or search nearer to home using the clickable map or the search box. You can specify vocal or instrumental (and refine your search using the keyword box), and leave the search engine to do the rest.
There is a text box on prominent display, the gist of which is that only limited descriptions will be shown on the website itself – they are going to rely on the groups to have their own websites to link to. This is sensible in that it limits the amount of updating to be done by the promoters of the website. It does mean that groups without websites (or whose websites crash – I found one) will be rather left out.
But for the prospective singer or player, there is enough choice here to justify an early visit.
Da da da daaah da!
There is a website called Bored.com, which has all sorts of games to stave off boredom. But the bit which interests me is called the Song Tapper. To use this, you have to invite ridicule from anyone within hearing by tapping out the rhythm of a song on your computer’s space bar, so that the magic machine can identify the song.
If it gets it right, you can link to lyrics of the song, or listen to the music as a ringtone. You get the picture - we're mostly talking idle-moment stuff here, although I’ve seen/heard library professionals use it in earnest. It probably won’t find the slow movement of a Haydn symphony, unless someone has "educated" it to do so, using the feedback box.
It’s a bit of fun which might just help you win that trivia quiz.
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