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Music CDs and Recordings

432

432
image by cymatics.org   There was a time when people tuned their instruments differently than we do today. Before electronics, people relied on the feeling of intonation, and the gift of perfect pitch. Early music was written to be performed in a tuning (intervals of cycles per second known as Hertz) which was different than the standard…
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Shakuhachi

Shakuhachi
Track number 9 of the Snow on Water Soundtrack on SoundCloud.com features my son Maxwell Campbell Barrett playing the bamboo root flute. The shakuhachi is the traditional Japanese 5-hole flute. The name describes its length, and thus its key, as D. The pentatonic scale is known to native people everywhere as the modality of the Earth.…
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Water

Water
Horseshoe Crabs In '94 I visited Cape May, New Jersey with my sister. Every year on the full moon of May great numbers of birds converge there for the eggs of horseshoe crabs. As the sun touches the western horizon and the full moon breaks over the east, terns and red knots go into a…
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Guitar Video Playlist

Guitar Video Playlist
Click on the link below to open my YouTube Channel Guitar Playlist http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYcKMd_yeGmPMNh6jOfhkqx59Ve9-6_4W A collection of videos old and new featuring a variety of guitars and tunings and sets. Brujo, my signature guitar piece, has been played on television, on the radio and the web, and is a staple of my live sets.   Words,…
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