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I work as a Systems Administrator and a Technical Consultant to the Helpdesk for the EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences) Department at the University of California, Berkeley Campus. This has been my career for the last 24 years which began as an electronics technician. I worked my way to principal electronic tech and then crossed over to systems administration about 12 years ago. My strongest experience is with computer hardware and I am usually the go to guy when laptops and desktops start smoken or won't power up.

One of my most interesting assignments at Berkeley was in 1992. I was put on a special team with NASA trained techs to fabricate an assembly bound for the Arecibo radio telescope. This was a special 4 million FFT based spectrum analyzer for SETI project SERENDIP III under the direction of UC Berkeley physicist Dan Werthimer. I got to build hardware to listen for ET!

In my off hours since 1977 I have been working with music, still photography, and small scale sculptures some involving digital electronics. However in 2008 after a 35 year hiatus I have returned to my own independent cinematic (video) and music productions.

Presently I use a Sony camcorder (HDR-CX500v) and I use Sony Vegas Pro 10 as my main video and music editing suite. I have experience with both Windows Movie Maker and Windows Live Movie Maker, and I am a tiny bit familiar with iMovie. My main instrument is electric guitar while I use my Steinway grand piano and Yamaha S08 synthesizer for composing. I do have a B.S. in Cinematography from SIU-Carbondale, 1974 and a M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, 1977.

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Sep 7	revised	Math formulae for organs? added 368 characters in body
Sep 7	answered	Math formulae for organs?
Aug 31	comment	How to build up to playing an F chord? Learn the barred E major position, take it up and down the fret board as an exercise. This will make the F major chord a heck easier.
Aug 24	comment	Is music always supposed to be dependent on timing? Thanks for the points. A good exercise would be to Google those words.
Aug 23	revised	Is music always supposed to be dependent on timing? added 249 characters in body
Aug 23	answered	Is music always supposed to be dependent on timing?
Aug 23	comment	What is bad about Roman Numeral Analysis? Are you looking for the antithesis of harmonic analysis or just the use of Roman Numerals vs some other means of representation?
Aug 22	comment	Which Music Instrument Have The Widest Variety of Sounds and Effects? Hi Aura, also I omitted that there are synth guitars. With the growth of digital technology are improved human interfaces, so almost any instrument can become a synth.
Aug 21	answered	Which Music Instrument Have The Widest Variety of Sounds and Effects?
Aug 10	comment	Musical notation/tablature for isomorphic instruments You could modify the traditional guitar tab with the following changes: make a space between in each group of strings, use a different color for each group to make it stand out, use line width to express diameter of each string (a set of lower strings would have progressively heavier lines as you descend).
Aug 8	comment	Could a group of musicians play a new piece by sight-reading on first attempt? Possible, but in reality how many composers and conductors are happy with the first read? It takes a number of rehearsals to get the nuances perfect. In movies, you may have other considerations that have to work with other sound elements (Foley, dialogue). A first read by competent musicians is certainly possible, but getting what the composer or director or conductor wants in a first read is rare.
Aug 1	revised	Physiological basis for note durations? added 1289 characters in body
Jul 31	answered	Physiological basis for note durations?
Jul 26	comment	How do I improve the rate at which I learn arpeggios? Excellent answer.
Jul 25	comment	Is there such a thing as “pop music theory”? Since electronic music is relatively new, at least under 100 years old, it's going to take some time to develop a theory on how it is/was practiced. Also, since this form is so technology driven, the vocabulary is a moving target. Terms like VCA, VCO, and Ring Modulator now longer have the same relevance they had in the 1970's when I was a graduate student learning analog manual patching on a Moog and Buchla. However the same acoustics apply, so perhaps like then most electronic composers embrace the more physical aspects of the sound.
Jul 25	answered	Acoustic guitar damaged by impact. How to repair?
Jul 24	comment	Is there such a thing as “pop music theory”? I totally agree with Wheat Williams, just wanted to add that both 'new' music, jazz and pop are well known for throwing a curve ball at traditional ways of doing music--hence expanding and challenging theoretical boundaries and limits.
Jul 17	answered	Where to start when learning guitar?
Jun 29	comment	What are the major types of effect pedals for electric guitar? Wah wah too for blues (SRV, Hendrix, others).
Jun 25	comment	distortion for a tube amp Hey Scott, just a thought. Talk to a tube amp tech about setting up the bias so it will distort earlier, or later depending on what you want. A good tech can also substitute various tubes to change how much distortion and how soon.