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hmm... so it has been proved that Hashi can use sage mode (senou=sage art)...
But I realize that shinsuusenju is much bigger than the Juubi O.O
the kyuubi is so small in comparizon to the shinsuusenju
yup, yup, Hashirama is a sage too D
well dude thats a true thing..
Seriously, that summon was gargantuan!
It was even bigger than the Juubi
i wonder how madara feels after hashi fingered him with that jutsu.. -____-
Originally Posted by Chaoz
Seriously, that summon was gargantuan!
yup dude ... its hugeeeee
OT: it seems like sage mode or some thing like Tsunades tech ... i dunno what it is :confused:
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Sage mode + senju = Overkill
you guys....once again. SENJU = SENJUtsu
Wrapping susanoo around kyuubi was not a bad idea but that sage technique was 15-20 times bigger than the kyuubi/perfect susanoo O.O
It maybe bigger than juubi.
Madara's stolen mokuton is nowhere near Hashirama's Mokuton. That dude is simply better if one must say.
I believe he learned it at this boned forest shikkotsu forest
Originally Posted by Melly
yup, yup, Hashirama is a sage too D
Does your sig have to be so obnoxious?
I love that we are finally seeing Hashirama's true power, because at first it seemed that nothing could possibly rival Madara. Now all that has changed. :D
to withstand kyuubi and madara together is simply overkill....goodbye to those who said hashirama had help when he faced madara and kyuubi...
It was an awesome summon, but susanoo around the nine tails was genius, got owned but this fight was way better than I imagined.
with such power one can only wonder what the so6p has in his asernal
The fact that Madara's mokuton kicked the Kages around, made me think that Madara was THE top tier shinobi. But watching Senju just summon that crazy thing. It kind of reminded me of that ultimate defense thing that Chiriku (the monk from the 12 Guardians) used in the shows. It was so huge! Oh my god. Is it like a Susanoo where it is great defense and great offense? The battle shows how good Madara was with his justu's, but Harshima also was shown to have great understanding of his and Madara's jutsu's. I feel like Madara could use the Harashima cells because of battles like these. I could be wrong. Is this sage like a special sage mode or a Toad Sage like thing?
I would like to say that though I felt it the latest chapter a bit the troll-me kinda chapter, I´m just as excited as the 1st times I read Naruto, or watched the anime... Hashirama is just like the greatest stunt-man god-like figure I´ve seen in manga (along Madara-Aizen-Boo) in terms of enlightment, coolness, jutsu badass!
Hashirama > Madara. Always. We have not even seen Tobirama's Penguin summons yet. I am so excited!
Talking about senpou mokuton...hashi is also a sage mode user judging by his handseal if u can see his hands were just like jiraya's in the battle against pein and his face markings also was like naruto's and jiraya's too but bit different...and about the summoning is soooo BADASS OverkillING!!OMG!!!
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Tommy Allsup's hands slid up and down the fret board of his guitar with a fluid grace, his fingers plucking at the strings. A smile played across his face as if he knew a secret.
Matching the acoustic notes of Allsup's guitar, Scott Porter's raw voice filled the room, singing the words of "It's So Easy," a hit song of music legend Buddy Holly.
Allsup returned to Clovis almost half a century after he met Buddy Holly in 1958 while recording at the Norman Petty Studio.
He played lead guitar for Holly's band the Crickets and is perhaps best known for being with Holly on the final, fateful Winter Dance Party tour.
It was literally the flip of a coin that kept Allsup on the ground that day in February 1959. Ritchie Valens won the last seat on the airplane that ultimately crashed, killing all aboard.
Allsup said the crash was difficult for the remaining band members to overcome but they went ahead and finished the tour at the urgings of Holly's family.
He was in Clovis Friday helping plan for the Clovis Music Festival in September.
Allsup will be one of the headline performers at a show titled "Legends of Clovis."
In conjunction with the music festival, a new CD commemorating the music of the 1950s, including several Holly tunes, will be recorded at the Norman Petty Studios, they said.
A self-taught guitar player, Allsup said he started performing with his fiddle-playing father in Oklahoma during the World War II era.
He learned quickly he'd rather get $5 a night making music than $1 for a whole day in a hayfield.
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So, ASP is an instrumental project made by Shitao, Pi-Pol and myself, your boy akabrownsugar. The concept is quite simple : 30 beats, 10 for each one of us, short beats, kind of Dilla style, to pay tribute to this incredible producer who passed away at the beginning of the year 2006.
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On July 1, it was announced that a $750 million settlement had been struck to compensate farmers for losses associated with the 2006 discovery of Bayer-owned GM traits in exported U.S. rice. Eligible farmers and landlords now face an Oct. 10 deadline to sign up for the settlement.
"No farmer is required to participate in the settlement, it's certainly voluntary," said St. Louis-based attorney Don Downing. However, "any farmer who wants to participate needs to sign up in the next couple of weeks, if not immediately."
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More on the exactly what's required for sign-up…
"Under the agreement (with Bayer), the settlement won't become legally effective unless (producers representing) 85 percent of the average (rice) acreage planted in the country between 2006 and 2009 agree to participate.
"If a farmer has been wrestling with whether to sign up or not, they need to consult with counsel. I'd encourage them to find someone they trust. There are many fine lawyers throughout the South representing farmers in these cases. You can find them just by searching the Internet. But they need to contact a lawyer as soon as possible.
"Following that, the lawyer will typically have some documentation requests for the farmer. As part of that, the farmer will need to go to the FSA office and obtain a '578 form' report of acreage. That's the form that lists how many acres were planted on each of the farmer's fields for each year. They need those reports for each year of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 – the years the settlement provides payment for.
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"The farmer will then need to return that documentation to his lawyer. At that point, the lawyer will be able to prepare the proper claim forms under the settlement.
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Jazz legend Archie Shepp returned with a bang or more like a major musical commotion.
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In the mid-1950s, Shepp enrolled at Goddard planning to study law. He ended up learning that he had talent as a playwright. He also went on to write poetry, teach and became politically active. Most notably, he excelled as a jazz instrumentalist and vocalist, and is now known around the world for his musical talents.
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By Meagan McCrary and Julie Fishman, co-authors of The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags
Relationships, and the dating process that precedes them, can be tricky. Here's a cheat sheet to help you navigate the sometimes stormy waters of love, and help you determine if your guy's really a catch after all.
Know Where You Stand2 of 22
If you need to contemplate whether or not you're a guy's girlfriend, you probably aren't. And if your "dates" with him consist solely of booze and booty calls, you're not actually in a relationship.
Understand His Intentions3 of 22
If your date seems to expect not just a goodnight kiss but a till-the-morning romp ten minutes into your first date, we guarantee he's looking for a bedmate, not a soul mate.
Watch His Morning-After Etiquette4 of 22
After spending the night at a man's house, be aware of his behavior. If he tells you he's "got a busy day" the moment his alarm goes off, don't expect him to take you to breakfast.
Take a Hint5 of 22
If a guy explicitly says to you, "I'm never going to be the boyfriend-y type," take his word for it and find a more loyal lad. You're not gonna change him.
Never Trust a Cheater6 of 22
If a guy declares his love for you, and he's currently dating your best friend, run.
Beware the Momma's Boy7 of 22
A guy who's not man enough to have your back on all occasions, even if it means upsetting his mother, isn't worth keeping around.
Make Sure He Puts in Some Effort8 of 22
If a guy can pick up a phone and send you a text, surely he can use the same phone and call you with it. A man who can't be bothered to actually talk to you isn't worth wasting your time on.
Watch His Spending Habits9 of 22
If your boyfriend has acquired over $385 in overdraft fees — in the span of two days — you probably won't want to combine your finances with his.
Listen to Your Friends10 of 22
If your close friends sit you down and tell you that they think you've changed for the worse since dating your new guy, don't get all defensive — believe them.
Check His Ex Factor11 of 22
If a guy you're dating knows, to the day, how long he's been broken up with his ex, he's likely still in love with, or at least hung up on, her. You don't want that kind of emotional competition.
Look at His Past12 of 22
If you find out your guy has never said "I love you" to anyone, even though he previously dated another girl seriously for years, this information could signal intimacy issues.
Get to Know His Family13 of 22
How your guy's close relatives behave and interact with each other could indicate who he really is, as well as explain how he got that way. The apple usually doesn't fall all that far from the family tree.
Read Between the Lines14 of 22
A guy who's got marriage — to you — on the brain will eventually start speaking in we's. If your man says "when I get married" rather than "when we get married," he's not thinking about anything long-term.
Don't Stand for Demands15 of 22
Watch out for a man who's not just taking the reins in your relationship but wrapping them around your neck with demands that are convenient for him but disadvantageous to you. You may want to knock him off his high horse before your heart gets drawn and quartered.
Ditch a Loser User16 of 22
Never continue to date a man who asks more questions about your job than he does about you.
Beware the Control Freak17 of 22
If your alleged knight in shining armor swoops in offering to improve every area of your life, he'll probably end up trying to control your life. It's one thing if he treats you like a princess; it's quite another if he treats you like a project.
Read the Subtext18 of 22
If a guy feels the need to constantly assure you that he's not critical, judgmental or self-righteous, we'd argue there's a million-to-one shot he is.
Stand Your Ground19 of 22
If your boyfriend tells you that you've "changed" since joining a gym or starting a therapy program or yoga practice, and that he'd like you to cease and desist, typically what he really means is that he thinks you've started becoming too good for him, and he would like you to stop.
Check His Attitude20 of 22
Inconsiderate and insensitive behavior during the so-called honeymoon phase of a relationship are red flags. Your guy's not going to suddenly start treating you better once the excitement and newness wears off.
Know When to Leave21 of 22
If your guy becomes indifferent to you, put on those walking shoes and get to steppin'. It's better to have loved and lost than to be stuck in a relationship that's no longer full of love at all.
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For further analysis of male behavior, dating advice, and stories from real women about the signals they should have never ignored, check out The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags.


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- Title
- Cross-section measurements of the 14N(3He,p)16O and 14N(3He,alpha
- Author(s)
- Terwagne, G.; Cohen, D. D.; Collins, G. A.
- Abstract
- The cross-sections of the 14N(3He, pi)16O (i = 1,2,3,4,5,7) and 14N(3He,α0)13N reactions have been measured for 3He incident energies between 1.6 and 2.8 MeV. These reactions offer an alternative to the 14N(d,p)15N and 14N(d,α)12C nuclear reactions for profiling of nitrogen in the first few microns below the surface. The technique has been applied to tool steels treated by Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation, where treatment at elevated temperatures leads to diffusion of the nitrogen to depths well beyond the implantation range. Simultaneous measurement of the carbon profile can be made using the 12C(3He,p)14N reactions.
- Publication type
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- Source
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 84, no. 4 (Mar 1994), pp. 415-420
- Publication year
- 1994
- FOR Code(s)
- 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; 0402 Geochemistry; 0915 Interdisciplinary Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Carbon; Crosssectional scanning electron microscopy; Nuclear reaction analysis; PIII; Plasma immersion ion implantation; Scanning electron microscopy
- Publisher
- Elsevier
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- Copyright © 1994 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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Finally a game, but i agree with Phil Jackson....No more games on Christmas Day
amazingly awesome thread jpzebra. so much info, it boggled my tiny mind!
i wasn't able to see new avatars you made... my bad?
gotta watch game on MSG just to hear Clyde of course.
if it's Breen and Herman Munster, might as well watch ESPN.
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Finally a game, but i agree with Phil Jackson....No more games on Christmas Day
we should be able to edge this game out.. They really don't have any interior defense and Amar'e should go into beast mode today..
The energy in the crowd today should also help the Knicks prevail today...
lol @ cool clydes tripuka-herman munster pics
Great game thread JPZ, 5 stars brehther
Its almost game times, lets scoop up these bullsh*ts and flush them down a toilet. Amarbury is gonna son the sh*t outta these clowns
>Turns to ESPN
>Hear's Doris Burke's voice
>Turns back to MSG.
merry xmas everyone........ lets go knicks! rockin my green nate jersey i gottta matchh wit my dudes!!! best of wishes to all my fellow knick fans......... LETS GET THIS W
im outta here homies merry x mas to all....... boutta go to da biddies krib n watch da rest of da game n eat.......... be safe all, LETS GO KNICKS amares gna have a great second half.......... sorry gotta dip dnt got time to post 5,000 posts.... lol corns
btw good post jpz......... metro dnt tlk to me unless u wna fight me, i tried to set **** up but u avoid smh


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i rather do gasol or even bargani instead of love... love's defense isnt all too great and he's goin to be impossible to try to trade for while gasol and bargani r more plausible
It is obvious what the Knicks problem is. we need to get bigger on the front court.. We are bigger than the Suns and we won by 30.. getting a dominating big is much more important than adding a guy like Melo..
this guy Love is a BEAST on the boards and gets 20 points a game... Hes maddd young and is going to be a stud for a long time.. If hes on the team Odom aint grabbing 17 rebounds and we wont get outrebounded by 20 on some nights.. Love is a guy that we can add and make the Knicks a legit championship contender.. I aint no armchair GM but I think we do have what it takes to get Love without gutting the squad
i rather do gasol or even bargani instead of love... love's defense isnt all too great and he's goin to be impossible to try to trade for while gasol and bargani r more plausible
I would love to see Kevin Love in that team. Sure he's not the best defender but the kid is a hustler and a rebounding machine. But once again, we couldn't trade for McGee. How the hell do you expect to get Love?
Maybe with Kahn's PG-love fest that he's got going on up in Minny we can trade him Toney Douglas for Kevin Love LOL
I think Rady needs to increase the post limit before you can start up a thread. The amount of ridicolous and stupid threads started up by the newbs is disturbing.
We might as well just name random players who the Knicks will never get in a trade and make threads about them.
LMAO. No way minni is giving us their top player.
Orange and blue, yesterday, today, and tomorrow...
Like someone else mentioned Marc Gasol actually makes us bigger (7'1) and gives a presence on the boards on the defensive end and also on the offensive end. He is a banger as well so takes some of the wear and tear off Amare. Love is more finesse so he would almost be like a second Amare just worst defensively.
Worst thread title and worst thread post of the year.
Love would of course be nearly perfect. He is prime Lee with better defense, younger age, speed, shootibg. O, and .400 3pt range.
Why not say that we should get Dwight Howard? Theres no way that Minni would give up Love unless we trade them the house.
I do agree that we definitely are in dire need of a big rebounder/defender that can run. We just need to find one that we actually have a possibility of signing.


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I've been playing the guitar much longer than I've been playing with Linux, so it was only a matter of time before I'd take a closer look at the software available to the Linux guitarist. I was happily surprised by what I found, and I'll share some of my discoveries in the course of this article.
I've divided Linux software for guitarists into a few broad categories:
Let's take a look at some interesting software from each of those categories, starting with notation exchange media.
Standard notation
The general subject of music notation software is broader than space for this article permits. However, guitarists of all styles commonly encounter standard music notation in sheet music, songbooks, magazines, theory, and other textbooks, and even on the Web, so a few words on the subject are in order.
Linux can claim several general notation packages with a variety of intended uses. Some packages are designed for music typesetting (MusicTeX and its clan members) while others are more composer/arranger-friendly applications such as NoteEdit or Mup. As much as I'd like to provide full reviews of this software, I'm going to remain focused on guitar-specific software. Readers interested in the available Linux notation packages should investigate the links found on the music notation software page of the Linux soundapps site.
OK, you guitar players out there ... what did Dave forget to talk about that other musicians would want to know?
The ChordPro and Chord file formats
The ChordPro file format is a lightweight and convenient means for guitarists to exchange song lyrics and chords over the Internet, typically via Usenet newsgroups or Web pages dedicated to ChordPro file collections. A ChordPro file is written in simple ASCII text that can be edited with any standard text editor, and is named with the
chopro or
pro extension. Here's a simple example downloaded from OLGA, the online guitar archive of songs in ChordPro, Chord, and tablature formats :
# From: email@example.com (Karol Harding)
{t:SILENT NIGHT}
{c:key of A}
[A]Silent night, holy [A7]night
[E7/Bm]All is cal[E]m, [F#m/A]All is b[A7]right
[D]Round yon Vir - gin, [A]Mother and Child
[D]Holy Infant so [A]Tender and [A7]mild,
[Bm]Sleep in h[E7]eavenly [F#m]peace,
[A]Sleep in [D]heavenly [A]peace.
Silent night, holy night
Shepherds quake at the sight,
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleleu- lia
Christ the Savior is born!
Christ the savior is born.
The curly braces hold directives that include information about the song, including title, artist, key, and chord definitions. Brackets contain the name of the chord to be played when the following word or syllable is sung. The hash symbol (
#) precedes comments.
ChordPro is well represented in Internet song collections such as The ChordPro Guitar Archive and OLGA.
Chord is an older Unix program that converts simple ASCII text files to PostScript files. Its
crd format is also popular on OLGA and is frequently encountered on the Usenet newsgroups devoted to tablature. The formal layout of a
crd file is somewhat looser than ChordPro, as the following example illustrates:
Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber. publ.1818
[suggest capo III]
Silent night! Holy night! [G]
All is calm, all is bright [D7 G]
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child [C G]
Holy Infant so tender and mild [C G]
Sleep in heavenly peace, [D7 Em Em/C#]
sleep in heavenly peace. [G D7 G]
Unlike the ChordPro format, a
crd file supposes that the guitarist knows where the chords should be placed within the melody.
Now that we understand the
chopro and
crd formats, let's look at some Linux software that works with them.
Daniel Polansky's Chordpack is a Perl script that converts a ChordPro input file into a TeX, HTML, or ASCII file. It is also capable of converting ASCII text files to "near-ChordPro" files.
Chordpack is a console application, so we'll take a look at some typical command sequences. These commands take in a file in ChordPro format and create the indicated output file:
[chordpack]$ ./chordpack html SilentNight.chopro > SilentNight.html
[chordpack]$ ./chordpack tex SilentNight.chopro > SilentNight.tex
[chordpack]$ ./chordpack ascii SilentNight.chopro > SilentNight.txt
Users not familiar with the TeX typesetting package may not know how to view a
tex file. Assuming a working TeX installation, the viewing procedure is simple: First, convert your
tex file to
dvi format:
latex SilentNight.tex
This command will automatically create an output file named
SilentNight.dvi. You can now view that file in X with the
xdvi utility:
xdvi SilentNight.dvi
Other command switches are available for transposing the song during transcription, setting font sizes, and using a song list file. As seen in the illustrations, Chordpack's output is clear and well-formatted (see Figures 1, 2, and 3), and its documentation tells you everything else need to know about the program.
Joachim Miltz's GuitarTeX also produces song sheets from files in the Chord or ChordPro formats. The program presents the user with a Perl/Tk graphical interface complete with pull-down menus filled with the various options and parameters for creating the output file -- including options for creating formatted and indexed songbooks. GuitarTeX converts an original ChordPro file to a TeX, PostScript, or Adobe PDF file, and it will also convert a
crd file to the ChordPro
chopro format. We've already seen some TeX output from Chordpack, so let's take a look at GuitarTeX's PostScript and PDF output.
The GUI is simple to navigate and the program is very easy to use. Open your ChordPro file from File/Open. The display area will fill with the ChordPro format text (Figure 4). Go to File/Export and select PostScript from the submenu: In a few moments, you will have a new file in the PostScript
.ps format. Repeat this procedure for creating a PDF file, and that's all there is to converting ChordPro files to PostScript and PDF files.
Like Chordpack, GuitarTeX can automatically transpose your song's chords. In Figure 5, we see our example file shifted up to the key of C: The transposition was made by pressing the upward-pointing arrow three times, raising the key-center three half-steps. Thus we moved from the original key of A up to a new key of C. Note that the original directive line
had to be manually edited to accurately reflect the change.
You can explore GuitarTeX's other features at your leisure. At this point I must move on to that other ubiquitous notation so familiar to guitarists....
Tablature (also just called "tab") is a notation system based on a physical representation of the instrument. Standard guitar tablature uses six horizontal lines to indicate the individual strings of the instrument, while vertical lines demarcate the measure boundaries. A number on a line (string) indicates the fret to be fingered to play the note. Guitar tablature can be edited in any ASCII text editor, like this fragment I whipped up in vi:
~ ~ ~
e e e e e e e e e
The numbers on the strings indicate the fret positions for the left-hand fingering. Rhythm is here described using letters to designate the rhythmic unit (here a series of eighth-notes), and special symbols are often employed to indicate a guitar-specific playing technique (in this example the tilde indicates a string bend).
Rhythm indication is one of tablature's weak points. You can notate a passage's general rhythm (as in the example above), but it becomes difficult to show the individual rhythmic activities of interwoven lines of music (counterpoint). Notating rhythm is an option, and many available tabs leave it out; like ChordPro, the tab may assume that the player already has some knowledge of the song's performance factors. Indeed, other aspects of meter and time such as time signatures and tempo are similarly not always specified.
The uppercase letters to the left of each line indicate the tuning of the guitar from the lowest string to the highest (from the bottom of the tab to the top). Our example is in standard tuning (E A D G B E), but tab is an superb system for notating guitar music in altered tunings: Simply tune up according to the string labels, follow the tab fingerings, and the music plays itself. Well, that's the theory anyway. All too frequently I discover that there seems to be something wrong with my guitar....
Like ChordPro, tablature is an excellent medium for Internet file exchange. The alt.guitar.tab and rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature newsgroups are excellent resources for learning more about tablature, for finding tab files, and for posting your own tabs. Tablature files are also found on music fan sites and Web pages devoted to song collections by particular artists.
Tablature can be written in any ASCII text editor, but Jason Sonnenschein designed his eTktab to truly help the user create original tab files. eTktab produces 4-string bass and 6-string guitar tablatures, edits multiple tabs simultaneously, prepares tab in rhythm or lead guitar mode, and can add precise indicators for guitar-specific playing techniques such as string bends or hammer-ons and pull-offs (legato techniques, for the literati).
The program is essentially an editor optimized for handling tablature files in a native format within a Tk interface (see Figure 6). As mentioned, you could just edit tab files directly in any text editor, but eTktab's tools make the process considerably easier and faster. Figure 7 shows the program working in Lead mode (edits proceed horizontally, no chords can be entered in this mode).
Right-clicking in the tablature display selects an editing area or specific string and fret to be edited. The fret number is entered in the selected space via the keyboard. Cut/copy/paste operations are available via mouse or keyboard control. In fact, eTktab's key bindings are superb, and they are all detailed in the file that appears when you click the Help key. One potentially confusing feature is the Base Fret designator. Fret numbers are entered by typing from the QWERTY keyboard according to these correspondences:
1 corresponds to fret 0 on the 6th string (low E)
Q corresponds to fret 1 on the 6th string (low E)
A corresponds to fret 2 on the 6th string (low E)
Z corresponds to fret 3 on the 6th string (low E)
2 corresponds to fret 0 on the 5th string (low A)
W corresponds to fret 1 on the 5th string (low A)
S corresponds to fret 2 on the 5th string (low A)
X corresponds to fret 3 on the 5th string (low A)
Changing the base fret starts the series at a new fret number. For instance, with the base fret set at "5" our example is now ordered in this manner:
1 corresponds to fret 5 on the 6th string (low E)
Q corresponds to fret 6 on the 6th string (low E)
A corresponds to fret 7 on the 6th string (low E)
Z corresponds to fret 8 on the 6th string (low E)
2 corresponds to fret 5 on the 5th string (low A)
W corresponds to fret 6 on the 5th string (low A)
S corresponds to fret 7 on the 5th string (low A)
X corresponds to fret 8 on the 5th string (low A)
One other note to consider: eTktab saves files in its own
et6 and
et4 file formats (for 6-string guitar and bass, respectively), but selecting File/Export lets you save the file as a standard tab file. Otherwise the program is intuitive, great fun, and very powerful -- definitely a recommended utility for the Linux guitarist's software toolkit.
Dr. Fermi's Tabulator
Stéfan Fermigier wrote his Dr. Fermi Tabulator to perform an interesting task: It converts a tablature file to a Type 0 standard MIDI file. The process requires some editing of your tabs, but the results are worth the effort. As an example, I chose to edit our second example of tablature made with eTktab. Figure 8 illustrates the changes made to our original file in preparation for conversion by the tabulator.
Some of the commands are obvious, but the lines in this format:
tab E 1 40 64
define the individual strings by note name (E), MIDI channel (1), MIDI key velocity (40), and MIDI note number (64). This style of rhythmic notation
e s s e
defines a sequence of one eighth note (e), two sixteenth notes (s s), followed by another eighth note.
Once the necessary edits have been made, we convert the eTktab example with this command sequence:
[tabul-1.0]$ ./tabul ../eTktab-2.0/my_first.tab my_first_fermi.mid
Figure 9 shows the MusE sequencer running the MIDI file created by this conversion.
The tabulator will warn you if errors are encountered when converting your tab file. Fortunately the documentation clarifies the file format and fully explains how to use the program, so check out the tabulator: It might be just what the doctor ordered.
Mikhail Yakshin has developed his KGuitar as an efficient environment for guitarists to perform common tasks such as writing and reading tablature, finding chord fingerings, converting standard notation to tab, and transposing a song or parts of a song. KGuitar also imports MIDI files for conversion to tablature, and it will export tablature in standard MIDI file format. The program has a number of other amenities that can be applied to other instruments, such as drum tracks and a lyrics viewer.
KGuitar requires KDE2, but can be run outside of the desktop. Figure 10 shows KGuitar in typical operation: note the use of traditional rhythmic notation as well as other elements taken from standard notation (time signature, double-bar at start). Figure 11 illustrates the Chord Constructor, one of KGuitar's coolest features: You can query the constructor for the fingering of almost any chord type and it will respond with a variety of possible forms.
Files created in KGuitar are saved in the program's native
kg format; however, you can also save your creations in ASCII tab, GuitarPro (
gtp), MusiXTeX (
tex), and standard MIDI file (
mid) formats. In fact, KGuitar is loaded with nice features, but I could only scratch its surface for this article. It's worth upgrading an entire KDE installation, and I'm looking forward to exploring it in depth.
Instrument tuners come in two flavors: fixed-pitch tuners made for a specific instrument, such as a guitar or bass; and chromatic tuners which can tune any instrument. A chromatic tuner can come in handy, even for a guitarist, but we'll stay focused here on some of the better Linux guitar tuners.
Harold Baur's gtune is a console-mode guitar tuner that's lightweight and easy to operate.
Just run
./gtune in the program's home directory, then play your input notes on your guitar, either directly through the line-in on your soundcard (for electric guitar) or through the microphone (for acoustic guitar). Gtune analyzes the input, reports on its true pitch, and indicates whether you're sharp or flat. When you've adjusted the pitch accurately, the display will appear as in Figure 12. And that's it for gtune, short and sweet.
Florian Berger originally created GuiTune for the KDE environment, but it now has the distinction of being available in versions for KDE, for Qt without KDE, and for GTK. Program operation is identical for all versions: set your input channel (line or microphone) on your mixer and play your instrument through that channel.
You may want to change the sample rate and the threshold level for optimal results; experimentation will find your best settings. GuiTune also provides two intonation sets (equal-temperament in frequencies and just-intoned by ratios), three base scale types, and toggles for representing accidentals as sharps or flats (see Figures 13 and 14).
If all you need is a simple program that plays a requested pitch through your soundcard or through the PC speaker, xtune is the program you're looking for. Xtune is a
bash shell script that calls the
xmessage utility to create an interactive window for tuning the individual strings of a guitar (see Figures 15 and 16).
A caveat: The ReadMe file states clearly that the subsidiary applications (the
waveplayer and
xmessage) must be in your
PATH statement, so you will probably need add the following lines to your
bash startup script (usually
.bashrc or
.bash_profile in your
HOME directory):
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/xtune
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/xtune/wave-0.1
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/xtune/xmessage
Start the program from its home directory by running
../xtune. Right-click on the button corresponding to the string you want to tune and the program will play a tuned WAV file in response. You can edit values in the shell script to change the waveform type, the sample bit resolution, and the window colors. The program works, it's easy to use, and that's about all there is to xtune.
This section was definitely the most fun to research. Guitarists love effects processors: The mandatory arsenal normally includes distortion units, echo and reverb pedals, chorus and flanger boxes, equalizers, and so on. I'm happy to say that Linux guitarists will find a variety of software signal processors that include all the effects mentioned, plus a few more rather unusual items. We'll start our tour with a look at the appropriately-named StompBoxes2.
Effects processing pedals are often called "stompboxes" (referring to the player's usual mode of operating the device). These pedals are typically devoted to a single processing function, and fascinating effects can be created by freely re-ordering the boxes in the processing chain. Hector Urtubia's StompBoxes2 is a virtual set of pedals that can be chained in arbitrary order, easily simulating the common arrangements used by guitarists.
Currently available modules (virtual pedals) include distortion, volume, delay, flanger, chorus, equalizer, noise gate, mono-to-stereo and stereo-to-mono mixers, and even a unique "reverse" effect. Operation is as simple as the original design: connect outputs to inputs (with any ordering of effects modules), right-click on a module to adjust its parameters, then click the On button to start the chain (see Figure 17). Check your audio mixer to be sure you've selected the appropriate input channel, and start playing. StompBoxes2 has some good DSP algorithms, but the proof is in the hearing, so you should download StompBoxes2 and check it out for yourself.
StompBoxes2 is great fun, but I found myself wishing that the effects parameters could be controlled in real-time without having to stop playing my guitar, perhaps via a MIDI fader box. However, that is standard operating procedure for most real pedals anyway -- the player sets the effect parameters on the device and does not alter them during play. StompBoxes2 is a highly enjoyable software substitute for a floor covered with real pedals and cables. In fact, it's realistic enough that I caught myself stomping on the carpet more than a few times while testing StompBoxes2.
Maarten de Boer's TAPIIR is a software multitap delay line. A multitap delay is essentially a delay line (echo unit) with a series of sampling points (taps) in the line's output. The taps feed back through the line output, creating very rich and complex reverberation and echo effects. TAPIIR is a particularly good delay unit with six delay lines and stereo input/output.
The sound quality is very clean, and I recommend running Maarten's two example settings files for a good idea of just what TAPIIR can do. The program's pleasant FLTK interface is easy to navigate and invites experimentation (see Figure 18), and you can save and load your own custom settings files. There's not much more to say here about TAPIIR except that it is an excellent example of high-grade Linux audio software that you simply must have in your Linux audio toolbox.
I'm starting to wonder if it's possible to write an article on Linux audio software without mentioning Kai Vehmanen's ecasound and its family of support and extension applications. Ecamegapedal is Kai's contribution to the substance of this article: It's a GUI for applying ecasound's chain operators, effects presets, or LADSPA plug-ins to an audio input file or real-time stream, making it a mega-pedal indeed.
Operation is again a simple procedure: Open the program, select an effect from one of the three tabbed panels, and click on the Start button. Real-time control includes switching between effects and dynamically altering parameters (alas, not yet via MIDI). Ecamegapedal reads audio data from OSS, ALSA, and aRts devices, as well as all audio file formats supported by
libecasound (MOD, WAV, MP3, Vorbis, etc.).
Figure 19 shows off ecamegapedal version 0.1dev6 in typical use, reading the input from my CD player and applying the Freeverb effect to the audio stream. Use of ecamegapedal is so straightforward that there's little more to say about it. The author has stated that the software began as more of a proof of concept than a real project, but it is already stable and usable software. Of course I have a wish-list: I'd like to see it incorporate more of the capabilities of
libecasound, and it would be very cool to create chains with ecamegapedal itself. Fortunately the author maintains a fast development pace, which is good because I'm already looking forward to the next release.
GNU Solfege
Absolute pitch recognition seems to be a born talent, but a musician can cultivate a highly refined sense of relative pitch. Traditional basic musicianship includes ear-training (the ability to recognize pitches and intervals) and music dictation (the ability to notate what you hear), but the acquisition and refinement of those skills is not easily accomplished by the lone Linux strummer at his terminal.
Tom Cato Amundsen's GNU Solfege is the partner you need for practicing interval recognition, singing requested intervals, memorizing rhythmic patterns, identifying scales, and more. It even includes a neat exercise for training your ear to recognize and evaluate 12-tone rows.
GNU Solfege is currently at release version 1.1.3. It is mature software with a well-designed interface (see Figure 20) to facilitate what is sometimes a rather dull and difficult task, but a very necessary task for any musician who wishes to improve his basic musical skills. Consider it an essential part of your toolkit.
I've already mentioned ecasound in reference to ecamegapedal, but by itself ecasound is a valuable program for guitarists. It's a multitrack recorder, multi-effects processor, and multi-format file player and converter, and its parameters are controllable via internal oscillators or external MIDI controllers. Ecasound can be run from an
xterm window or a handy Qt interface in X (see Figure 21) or straight from the Linux console.
Snd, GDAM, and AlsaPlayer
When I was learning how to play guitar, I listened to recorded music by way of a strange format made from black plastic or vinyl platters called "records" that were played on a turntable (yes, much like the ones used by your favorite DJ). Happily, many turntables included a control for setting different playback speeds. Thus a 33-rpm (revolutions per minute) record played at 16 rpm would play at roughly half-speed and an octave lower in pitch, making it possible to hear the notes clearly enough to learn and practice the pattern before attempting it at the original tempo and pitch. Unfortunately, although this method worked, the constant replacement of the needle into the record's grooves quickly wore out or damaged the original medium. In other words, I ruined a lot of records.
Lucky you, you don't have to hassle with that sort of scenario. You have the compact disc, and some modern CD players are designed for looping through marked sections of a disc, with separate controls for speed and pitch during playback. With this kind of control, you can slow down a passage without changing its pitch so you can learn the music at its original pitch level but at a more relaxed tempo.
I went looking for something similar in Linux audio software. Alas, I found nothing quite so directly useful as a contemporary CD player, but I did find ways to achieve the same effect. For instance, you can rip a CD track to WAV or MP3 format and work with it in another program. Figure 22 shows the Snd sound file editor with its "expand" control activated and set to 2.00.
When I press the Apply button, the cursor will sweep quickly through the file as Snd performs a granular analysis/resynthesis of the passage. When I next click the Play box the passage will play at half-speed but at its original pitch. If I start Snd with
-load examp.scm (a package of functions written in the Guile/Scheme language), I can loop the passage by entering the play-often command in the Listener window. Play-often takes a single parameter that defines the number of times to loop the passage, so a command like this one:
(play-often 5)
will play the file five times through. Believe it or not the procedure is not as cumbersome as it may seem, and users of the emacs editor will find Snd's keybindings familiar and quite fast to utilize.
The GDAM audio processing/DJ environment includes a "respeed" object as well as two different looping mechanisms (see Figure 23). As with Snd, GDAM loads and plays various soundfile formats, including MP3s. Thus you can loop a passage in your favorite MP3 file, use the respeed tool to adjust playback speed without altering the music's pitch, and practice until you've got it right. GDAM is excellent multipurpose Linux audio software -- feature-rich and easy to use, stable and consistently maintained (it's currently at version 0.938). Check it out, I'm sure you'll want to add it to your Linux audio arsenal.
By the way, shifting the playback speed without shifting the pitch level usually introduces undesirable audio artifacts, and the required number-crunching often rules out real-time operation. I must point out that the sound quality from Snd's
expand control is very good. GDAM's
respeed is perhaps not as artifact-free, but it has the great advantage of working in real-time.
Just as I was finishing this article, I received an encouraging word from Andy Lo A Foe, developer of the AlsaPlayer audio media player. Loop play is being developed for AlsaPlayer now, and Andy indicated that it might soon be possible to use his player to loop and time-stretch passages directly from CD. That's just what I'm looking for, so I'll be eagerly awaiting AlsaPlayer's next few releases.
Drum machines: love 'em or hate 'em, at the very least they are indispensable practice pals when your percussive buddies can't be found (or it's way past midnight). Linux can lay claim to some very nice drum machine emulators, so let's take a look at some of them before we take our leave.
The TK-707 (see Figure 24) by Chris Willing and Pierre Saramito is a great reproduction of the classic Roland TR-707 "rhythm composer." TK-707 works just like its model: Starting the machine sets up a looping pattern of silent beats, you drop in drum sounds on whatever beats whenever you like, and voilá, you have a drum pattern. Patterns are then chained together to create songs, and both patterns and songs can be saved for later recall. Neat and sweet, TK-707 is lightweight and works perfectly. The only problem I have with it is getting away from it.
The UltraMaster RS101 (Figure 25) is a wonderful rhythm synthesizer/sequencer that provides the guitarist with a bass player, a synthesizer, and a drummer, all in one package. Like TK-707, you set up a looping pattern of beats and drop in events on those beats in real-time. The RS101 is very sophisticated software: The synthesizer is fully programmable and capable of some great sounds, and the drum section is equally interesting. But don't take my word for it, just download it and hear for yourself.
Like so many useful Linux applications, Aaron Lav's Rhythm Lab was written to scratch an itch: The author needed software that would help him visualize and hear complex rhythms called polyrhythms. Polyrhythm is commonly encountered in modern music scores, and it is a prominent feature of highly rhythmic music such as African and Indian drumming.
Aaron's program enables a musician to set up complicated relationships such as 5 beats in a 4/4 measure (see Figure 26), with complete control over the sounds used, their volume balances, and the overall tempo. Rhythm Lab is a great tool for clarifying the rhythmic relationships in music by composers such as Elliott Carter or Pierre Boulez, and it's a terrific aid in learning how to play those bizarre guitar solos by Frank Zappa.
I hope you've enjoyed this little journey through a relatively unexplored area of Linux audio software development. Perhaps you've found some items you'd like to check out for yourself. If you do try some of this software, be sure to let the authors know what you liked about their programs, and make civil suggestions for improvement where appropriate. Best of all is if you can help with the coding, but there's typically lots of other work to be done in open-source and free software projects. In some respects, programming isn't much different from playing the guitar: The more practice, the more skill, so plug in, tune up, grab some tab, and rock on !
The author would like to thank Joachim Miltz, Dan Polansky, and Kai Vehmanen for their assistance during the preparation of this article. I am of course responsible for any remaining errors.
Interested readers should see the Linux Sound & Music Applications pages for a complete listing of guitar software, effects processors, notation editors, and other Linux audio and MIDI software.
Dave Phillips maintains the Linux Music & Sound Applications Web site and has been a performing musician for more than 30 years.
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Get married: A study by Duke University Medical Center found people with permanent partners or spouses had a decreased risk of premature death during midlife, according to a report in Science Daily. People who never married were more than twice as likely to die early than people in long-term, stable relationships.
Drink coffee: Brooklyn College researchers found that drinking four cups of coffee a day lowers your risk of dying of heart disease by 53 percent.
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Laugh: One minute of laughter is equivalent to 40 minutes of deep relaxation. A hundred laughs is comparable to a 10-minute jog, according to cardiologist Dr. William Fry.
Eat nuts: Men's Health reported that Loma Linda University researchers tracked the lifestyle habits of 34,000 Seventh-Day Adventists, a population famous for longevity, they found that those who ate nuts 5 days a week, lived on average 2.9 years longer. Dr. Michael Roizen says five servings of nuts per week will lower the risk of belly fat, diabetes, heart disease and more, and cam even lower heart health-threatening LDL cholesterol by 10 points and high triglycerides by 20 points.
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Got to church: MyHealthNewsDaily reported that a Norwegian study found the more time a person spends at church, the lower his or her blood pressure. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center also found that people who regularly attend religious services appear to have a healthier immune system than those who don't. A University of Pittsburgh researcher found the number of years added to life by attending church is similar to those associated with regular exercise or taking statin-type drugs that lower cholesterol, according to a report in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine.
Sing in the shower, or wherever else you want: A joint Harvard-Yale University study found that singing regularly increased life expectancy, likely because decreases stress, promotes a healthy heart and helps ward off depression.
Drink tea: One or two cups of tea per day will do your heart good, according to Jeffrey Blumberg, PhD, a professor of nutrition science and policy at Tufts University. A study of more than 40,500 Japanese men and women, those who drank five or more cups of green tea every day had the lowest risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. Black tea shows similar results. Some studies show that adding milk may eliminate tea's positive effects, so just lemon or honey is a better choice.
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