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trevh on
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Your priorities are spot on, Louis!
I need to fully try out the existing stuff first.
At the same time, I'm working towards converting the "Miracle" songs for use with PB. The songs seem to be buried in the executable so I have to use the built in "Miracle Studio" routine to load then save each file as midi (SMF, I think). The good news about that is that I see the song's midi structure on the way through. Once I have them in midi, I can see the score and move from measure to measure more easily using Rosegarden.
For example their version of Frere Jacques has:-
R.H. Student on track 1, Channel 1
L.H. Student on track 2, Channel 2
Bass (Elec Bass Finger) on track 3, Channel 3
Church Bells (tubular Bells) on track 4, Channel 4,
these last 2 being General Midi patches, it would seem.
In the Tutor routine, Frere Jacques is listed as level 10 of 40, where "Tea for Two" is level 40 and "Ode to Joy" is level 1.
The bad news is that while I'm happy to recreate the songs in ABC, I've given up in disgust about copyright bullshit.
For example how much change is required to make one arrangement different from another? Can an accompaniment of bass chords be copyright and if so how much change is required to avoid this? Can a variation be copyright and if so how much is apportioned to the original and how much to the variant?
It's just nuts in a teaching / skill building environment, imho.
So ... I'm gonna collaborate with a few trusted friends to convert all that we can for our own personal use. How can I prevent a friend from secretly making a torrent of the resulting archive and sending it 'round the world?
We're particularly jaded in Australia at the moment because
Men At Work's "Land Down Under" FLUTE RIFF (not even the whole song) has just lost a copyright battle, and NOW we learn that the tune of that riff is actually a Welsh folk song.
"Land Down Under" is a modern Ozzie anthem.
Is the reason that "Miracle Piano Tutor" is no longer supported or available a fear by the programmers about copyright issues with the song library that shipped with it?
I understand that we need only
free music for PB download purposes so I'll make a short "review" of each song available here and perhaps we can get advice about each song's copyright from that.
Any other ideas about how we protect PB from the copyright morass? Become even more arms-length from "PB optimised" songs?
regards
Trev
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