Lifelong jazz musician in the mountains of Colorado.
You won't find me on social media.
You'll find me here!
35 years ago, I started learning music from the most talented music teachers in California.
People ask me what I am thinking when I play, and the answer is: all of the thoughts I've had in my life come to me when I am on the keys.
Today I use my life experience to engage with the audience on more levels than ever before.
I have lived through many different social interaction standards.
I have found music entertainment to stand the eternal test of time.
Here is a song for the holidays, although it is not a holiday song.
When you hear this TV show theme song, you will always remember the Christmas special from many years ago:
Thanksgiving song Over the River with experimental jazz improv:
Introduction:
Somebody just asked me how I can be comfortable giving away my coding secrets.
Actually, I would love for my secrets get out because I would love to program computers the way I jam with music...
I create music by putting my ideas out there and feeling how they work with like-minded folks.
Computer programming is only different because the ideas come together in very different time frames.
Here's where I subscribe to a culture of programming where we build things together by presenting our ideas and unguarding our secrets:
In this example, I've gone and created a function that will render any white note.
One of the parameters is notch, which is a string enumerator (fancy way of saying it's a multi-way switch).
The parameter notch may be "left", "right", or "both".
You can see there are 7 lines of code that start with drawNote.
Those are the lines that.. draw each note!
Each line of drawNote code going down draws a note going to the right.
Here's the JavaScript code:
Coming up in the next example: How to animate the piano keyboard using JavaScript timer events!