A personal blog by El Ale mixing technology with occasional long-form explainers, such as an intuitive walkthrough of musical scales and the circle of fifths based on frequencies and harmonics. Other posts cover a stance against AI-generated content and an experiment building a programming language with GPT-3.
Website: https://blog.alesanchez.es/
Each issue takes apart a well-known rock song at the piano, explaining its chords, scales and arrangement choices and why they work emotionally. Readers get song context plus practical ideas they can apply to their own songwriting.
Piano solo arrangements of Cantonese pop songs and some K-pop, each with downloadable sheet music and a bar-by-bar analysis. Readers get performance tips and music theory explanations covering modulation, articulation, rhythm and arranging choices.
A Spanish-language newsletter from AulaMusical.com on music theory and music pedagogy, pairing lessons on harmony, voicings and scales with notation examples from the AulaChord software. Recent issues cover using AI agents to write notated music through the MCP protocol, multiple scale choices over the ii-V-I progression, and voice-leading and resolution of added tensions.
StaffReader is a blog from a note-reading app builder that compares note-reading apps honestly and argues for landmark-note (anchor-based) reading over mnemonics. It offers practical method explanations and app comparisons for beginners and adults learning to read sheet music.
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