CS106B - Free Course from Stanford

CS106B is a free course from Stanford available online. This course is about data structures and recursion.

The latest free video lectures are made last 2011 Spring Quarter and you can access them at ClassX - CS106B: Programming Abstractions. The professor during this quarter is Steve Cooper. You can visit the CS106B's website in this quarter here. All lecture handouts, codes, the course reader, assignments and many other materials for the course are available in the website.

An older set of video lectures are available at SEE (Stanford Engineering Everywhere) - Programming Abstractions. Go to the bottom part of the web page to download the complete course materials.

If you are planning to do the assignments and compile the example codes during the lectures you'll need Visual Studio 2005 and the CS106 Library. If you have Visual Studio 2008 instead, please read Dani's article on how you can make the CS106B Library work with Visual Studio 2008.

Enjoy!

I have done some of the assignments last 2011 Spring Quarter. You can view my solution here.

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Playing Mood Music Video By Greg Howlett

In this video, Greg Howlett teaches how to play soft piano music when playing reflective songs.

You can download the example used in the video here.

Here's an outline on what you'll learn in this video:

Playing Mood Music with Greg Howlett

I. General Principles

A. Focus on harmony. You have to know what notes belong to what chord.

B. Spread out the notes you play. Use open voicing

C. Less is More! Play less

1. Simplify the patterns you play.
2. Avoid doubling/octaves.

Train your ear. It's your best tool.

II. Beginning Techniques (Applications)

A. Open arpeggios (left hand)

B. Play open intervals in both hands (rather than octaves). Play 6ths, 5ths, 7ths, 9ths, 10ths but avoid octaves.

C. Broken chords. Play parts of a chord in different segments of time.

1. It makes you have more control over the sound.
2. It creates movement; it fills up space.

D. Take your time (Rubato, "out of time"). This helps remove tension from the music.

III. Advanced (Harmony) Techniques

A. Add 7ths to your triads. (Major 7ths or minor 7ths).

B. Chord substitutions (reharmonization).

C. Color notes. Notes added to chords in addition to 1, 3, 5, and 7