Nice Songs To Download
Mina Meiss
There are just some bird songs that stop me in my tracks. I marvel at the complexity, the melody, the tone. They're the ones that stand out from the rest of the dawn chorus by their sheer beauty. I'm always grateful to be in the right place at the right time when I hear them.
Here's a link to download the FREE Audubon Bird Guide App: , so you can have bird songs in your pocket.
I include links to the online version of the Audubon Bird Guide for each of the birds listed below -guide and give links for the songs.
Veery. When I'm asked to pick my favorite bird song, this is it. The Veery can make two tones at the same time, using both sides of its syrinx to create harmony with itself. The song has a spiraling, descending flute-like tone. You can see the two tones on a spectrogram and read more about it here.
Wood Thrush. Really, all of the thrushes are amazing singers. But I like the bouncy lilt of the song of the Wood Thrush, as well as the strange, almost-metallic sound at the end of the song. It's a really weird noise that sets it apart from all other birds' songs.
Hermit Thrush. This one's song is clear, simple and yet complex at the same time. The longer tone at the start of the song sets a calming vibe, and then it gets all jumbly. It's a good one.
Bobolink. Yes, the R2-D2 bird. Its song is a very bubbly, metallic-sounding tumble of random notes. You'll find these birds nesting in Vermont's hayfields. Learn more about Audubon Vermont's work to help conserve the Bobolink:
Winter Wren. This bird wins the prize for the longest song. It's one of the fastest as well. Someone once told me it sounds like an electric guitar solo. Winter wrens like to nest and forage in messy tangles of fallen trees' root balls on the forest floor.
Red-eyed Vireo. This bird sings all day long. It doesn't matter how hot it is, or if it's raining. This bird is singing. The song is short, sweet and sing-song-ey. "Look at me. Way up high. Over here. In a tree." So very reassuring to hear this bird song at my side in the woods.
Blue-headed Vireo. Slow down the song of the Red-eyed Vireo and you've got the Blue-headed Vireo. Its song has long, long pauses between the phrases that invite you to listen for more.
When I find myself in a different part of the world, I listen to bird song in a whole different way. The part of my brain that tries to identify bird song doesn't engage, and I can more easily appreciate the tones and melodies of the songs. Enjoy this video shared with me by a good friend:
And yes, you can turn down both yours and other mandachord volume to a zero. And of course now you also can't make it empty, with benefit of using it as if it would be maxed (THANKS, DE! Very helpful nerf!!)
I'm using What is Love? one (I think it was coming from the big Mandaccord topic linked above), I just... hate people with their frenetic music where you just need to spam a key one billion times to get the benefits. I find it easy with this one to get the bonus in 3 or 4 hits (most people don't know the faster the tune, the more syncs you need to get the buffs), and it's possible to listen without making your ears bleed.
It's still much easier to get buff by simply spamming. Stealth buff usualy can be get in 2-3 seconds of spamming crouch. In case of multishot even easier, just keep firing, and if there lots of notes - you guaranty will get buff pretty soon (opposing to sound with few notes, where you will just keep losing progress, and never getting buff). Same for melee buff.
With speed buff it's usualy worth just keep using bullet jump (which effectively will get you stealth buff as well).
"Reality is, to make mandachord effective, you have to put as many notes in it as possible."
I disagree with you. But I suppose this depends heavily on your playstyle.
Either you have a nice song and put in a little bit of effort to get your buffs or you fill all the notes and spam.
But really it's not that much effort. Why not enjoy the music?
I used the mallet and resonator for the sound and mute the spam. At least for your own music you can mute each section separately. Although I also have a song that you need 2 to get buff cause I prefer that.
I started making these tracks because I believe that music theory is best learned from actual music. Yes, you want to work through abstract symbolic representations too, but those are very difficult to understand and retain unless they sit on top of a foundation of aural learning and intuition. You will have a much easier time internalizing the diatonic seventh chords if you have already heard and played a lot of music that uses the diatonic seventh chords. I collect real-world musical examples of all the concepts that I teach, but I also wanted some music with the concepts at the center, systematically laid out. I can point you to plenty of songs that use seventh chords, but there is no song that uses, you know, all of them. Then I realized that through the magic of Ableton Live, it would be pretty easy to just make one, and I could put the whole thing over the Funky Drummer break so it would be fun to listen to.
When I was writing A More Beautiful Question, or, more accurately when I was procrastinating from writing the book, I began compiling the below list of songs that have questions in the title AND that I like (for the most part). Then four years later, I once again turned to this playlist while researching and writing my follow-up book, The Book of Beautiful Questions.
The author, Katharine Lee Bates, was born in 1859. She was a young English teacher who was also a poet. She wrote "America, the Beautiful" at age 33. Two years following a sightseeing trip to Pike's Peak, Colorado, in 1893, she still remembered how awe-struck she was with that area of our country. She then wrote a poem that has been embraced by the people of America.
Her poem explores the lingering impact of the victories and joys experienced by all Americans. She includes a stirring exhortation that all Americans should recognize the "grace" of God extended to our people in the dramatic developments that shaped our country.
The musical setting, now used with Bates's poem, was written in 1882 by composer and organist Samuel Augustus Ward. He wrote the tune, in his head, while on a ferryboat trip from Coney Island back to his home in New York City.
Several bills have been brought up in the United States Congress that have suggested that this song replace our national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner." Many believe the song to be more expressive and less militaristic. Both songs are widely used today, the way most Americans want it.
Most everyone reading this column can remember singing "America, the Beautiful" at various times during his or her life. So can I. One of the greatest experiences of my musical career happened on Feb. 6, 2005, and the song, "America, the Beautiful" was at the center of it.
I was asked to train a 150 -voice choir - 75 deaf students and 75 blind students - from the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind to sing and sign "America, the Beautiful" just before the kick-off of Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville. It was the National Football League's way of honoring the famous singer, Ray Charles, who had passed away just seven months earlier. Charles was a former student at the school.
Charles had presented his arrangement of "America, the Beautiful" to a wide range of audiences and in a myriad of places all through his career. It was only appropriate that we presented this song in his honor.
On the evening of Super Bowl XXXIX, "America, the Beautiful" was presented as never before. The event was seen by television in some 200 countries. To see and hear the performance go to youtube.com and type in: Alicia Keys - America the Beautiful Live Super Bowl.
Billy Franks led the Faith Brothers, writing belligerent but beautiful songs of working-class lives and battles, and playing them to an ardent congregation who lived those lives and fought those battles. Their music was brassy and passionate, Billy's lyrics, political poetry. He didn't need a macho swagger or an attitude: he was one of us.
I cannot count how many times I saw them, from a sweat-drenched Marquee in London to supporting REM at the Ritz in Manchester. After the Faith Brothers split in 1987, Billy continued writing and playing, often with former bandmates including Lee Hirons. He travelled, fundraised, wrote a book and made a film, but never got the breakthrough or recognition he merited. I regret that I did not keep up with him as time moved on.
Kristoffer Whitney has received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities for this project. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the NEH.
The invader, puffed out into the shape of a ball, fluttered one wing straight up in the air. He sang constantly and softly, incomplete songs in rapid succession. The defender, silent, hunched his shoulders in a menacing attitude, closely following every move of his foe.
Seeing the world as animals do is impossible, yet scientists try to do it all the time. I am a researcher who studies the history of science to understand how we know what we know about nature. This paradox has been central to research in field biology, from the behavioral ecology of birds to the evolutionary biology of snakes.
Margaret Morse, born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1883, was an avid outdoorsperson all her life. As a student at Mount Holyoke College, she found her zoology classes stultifying, with a focus on dissection and taxonomy that defined natural history at the time. This changed when she enrolled as a graduate student at Clark University in 1907. Faculty encouraged her in experimental and observational studies of animal behavior, and she began to research the feeding habits of the bobwhite.
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