Wheat Williams

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Apple Certified Macintosh Technician (ACMT) and Apple Sales Professional (ASP).

Microsoft Windows SBS 2008 (Small Business Server) Network Administrator, supporting Windows 7 clients.

Volunteer business administrator for the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra.

I have also been a technical writer, computer magazine tech journalist, music critic and music journalist, copywriter and publicist, and professional musician.

Languages: English, with some German (Deutsch), Spanish (español), and French (français)

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Apr 15	comment	Beethoven's Ode to Joy - interpretation And I should say, David Kernin, "Welcome to Musical Practice & Performance". If this question isn't best-suited to this site, I hope you will have other questions we can help you with.
Apr 15	comment	Beethoven's Ode to Joy - interpretation The poem that Beethoven set to music, "An die Freude", was written by Friedrich Schiller. I suggest you look into his poems, but the remaining question would be what Beethoven intended to convey by the music that he composed to accompany Schiller's poem.
Apr 15	comment	Beethoven's Ode to Joy - interpretation I don't recall ever seeing a question here about the meaning behind a work or of its lyrics. I believe this question may be off-topic for Musical Practice & Performance; at any rate it's not the sort of question we are equipped to answer here. Open-ended discussion or something that would foster a lot of subjective interpretations or lengthy debate are not what this site is designed to work with.
Apr 12	comment	What do I need to know about drums as an electric metal guitar player There are essentially two questions here: 1) how to gain an understanding of the basics of playing the drums for a non-drummer and 2) using that, how to find and use loops and backing tracks to play over for rehearsal.
Apr 12	comment	What do I need to know about drums as an electric metal guitar player Welcome to Musical Practice and Performance, Tanmoy!
Apr 8	comment	When we sing loudly does volume change or pitch? The way you have asked this question indicates that you do not understand what "pitch" is. That is a very fundamental concept.
Apr 8	comment	What do the 2 “push/pull” knobs on my guitar do? Maybe. The Jimmy Page mod is not likely to be found on a stock import Dean guitar.
Apr 6	comment	What do the 2 “push/pull” knobs on my guitar do? That would involve different capacitors for tone controls in a passive design, or active equalization in an active design (if your Dean guitar has a compartment for an internal battery, then there is an active tone circuit or preamp on board.)
Apr 3	comment	Four dots over tremolo minim (half note with slash) There is another kind of notation for a "two-note tremolo" which is an alternation back and forth between two notes or two chords. In that kind of notation, the slash strokes are positioned between the stems of two adjacent notes or chords.
Apr 3	comment	Four dots over tremolo minim (half note with slash) Yes, it is a tremolo. "One-Note Tremolo" is in fact the technical term for this type of notation, the slash through the stem of the notehead. (it may also go by other names.) That is how this symbol is referred to in the Sibelius and Finale music notation programs, and in texts on music engraving.
Apr 3	comment	Four dots over tremolo minim (half note with slash) +1 for adding the image of the score so we can see the exact notation.
Apr 1	comment	What gauge strings should I use for A# tuning on an electric guitar Please define what you mean by "A# tuning". What are the pitches of each string?
Mar 29	comment	Getting my Daughter Started in Music There have been many other questions here about studying and taking music lessons. That comes under "Practice".
Mar 28	comment	Karaoke Software for practicing sax iReal b is available for Mac OS X. I just purchased it.
Mar 27	comment	What are the ABRSM graded examinations, and why would one want to take them? There is certainly a musicians' union in the United States of America. It is called the AFM, or American Federation of Musicians. It also extends into Canada. It was formed in 1896.
Mar 26	comment	Can't feel meter when playing You could give us some more details to enable us to offer suggestions. Do you perform solo, or in a band? What styles of music are you working with? Do you rehearse with backing tracks or a metronome? Do you have a teacher and are you taking lessons now, or are you self-taught?
Mar 26	comment	How to play Rumba-Flamenco (Spanish rumba) style of music on guitar? The type of guitar that is most suited to this is of course a flamenco guitar. Do you own a flamenco guitar? Do you understand the differences between a flamenco guitar and a classical guitar? You can look these things up.
Mar 20	comment	Why is the whammy bar sometimes called a “Tremolo” arm? I have never heard an explanation as to why the Fender company deliberately misused these two terms in the first place. It is well-known that Leo Fender was an industrial designer and not a musician.
Mar 19	comment	How does fm synthesis works compared to additive synthesis, and how to approach sound design with it? Of course you are right, supercat. I said that the FM synthesis on the Minimoog was crude and the FM synthesis on the DX7 was very sophisticated, and that one was analog and one was digital. I'm well aware that early Yamaha FM synthesizers were essentially 10 or 12 bit and very noisy. I had a TX81Z back then. I said nothing to make anybody think that the Minimoog and the DX7 would be equivalent or that they could make similar sounds. I just said that they were both examples of FM synthesis, which is perfectly true.
Mar 19	comment	How does fm synthesis works compared to additive synthesis, and how to approach sound design with it? Thank you for correcting my "typo". I meant to say "subtractive". But the Minimoog could indeed do frequency modulation synthesis on oscillator 3. Here is proof in a video. youtu.be/CzpgTOAF-qU