OneDittyADay

I swear it took me at least twenty tries to record this. The first stretch my fingers just don’t like. Even then it’s not perfect, but it shall have to do.

This is from Bach’s Praludium BWV 1006a. Bach wrote a number of lute suites which are usually now played on guitar. My version is a bit slower and shorter.

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Blood sweat and tears and I finally got it. It was.. to say the least.. an ordeal.

After about a week of playing with every website and every little freeware/shareware/whoknowswhere application to try to get my video, audio and watermarking to happen correctly in flash I finally figured a few things out.

1. Almost every program out there is based on a program called ffmpeg.
2. My watermarks and ending blurb were completely seperate from the video/audio and that’s why nothing was working with it
3. ffmpeg runs great on windows if you hunt around for the binaries, except no modules so no watermarking

So I found a friend with a linux box he was willing to lend me, and I went to work.

Now you have to understand, ffmpeg has zilch documentation on compiling. They don’t offer download links or even source code zipped up. You have to get the source from their development tree directly.

After two days I got it to work. I never did get watermarking to work though, instead I went with drawtext which worked fine.

You should see a bit of tweaking in the next few days, there is a bit prettying up I can do. But the flash should be much easier on you and me.

Lights out everyone! This piece and all bugle calls can be played in harmonics.

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Another one I learned from guitar lessons. Just looked up the chord and found out it was a Dm.

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