Are you tired of having spills from overflowing sinks and bath tubs? Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make a water level detector. To make this detector, you will need: 2 wires, a sound signal from a toy, and a drill.
In this electric guitar video lesson, we work on basic vibrato. Vibrato is essentially bending a string up and down to create drift in the tonal quality of the sound. Vibrato is a necessary component of every electric guitar player's toolbox.
In this video tutorial episode of "Techniques with Todd" we talk about single string technique. Single string electric guitar techniques are important for getting the heavy metal sound or just to impress others with your fast fingers.
Got a faulty headphone jack? No problem... Check out this tutorial to see how to install a new headphone jack into your 30, 60, or 80 GB iPod Video.
This tutorial shows you how to chipmunk your music (make any song sound like it's being sung by Alvin and the Chipmunks).
Here's a an easy to make, dollar store DIY spy microphone that lets you listen from afar and bring the sounds up close. From Make Magazine Volume 14
This how-to video will teach you how you can create a sound effect much like that of breaking glass. You can make your unsuspecting victim think that you broke a glass or that you broke something made of glass with this handy instructional video. This trick uses a coffee mug, plastic wrap, and a key. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
This camel is pretty difficult to fold but, if you are inspired, check out this video to learn. The music and sounds are awesome.
Make a cheap talkbox out of common parts for a very small amount of money and time. This will NOT give you a sound like a pro talkbox, but it's cheap, easy, and fun.
Learn how to use the modal verb "must" in English. The modal verb "must" is almost the same as using "have to," but often "have to" sounds better in spoken English.
Play clawhammer style on the ukulele. Clawhammer style is used for banjos but you can apply it to the ukulele for a great sound.
This video starts the Hindi tutorials, with the vowels of Hindi, including the writing system (Devanagari script). Please watch the videos on Hindi phonetics before this part.
Today's word is "cadence". This is a noun which means the rhythmic flow of words or sounds.
A short tutorial on how to sound design and build samples within the NN-XT to create pads patches. Part 1 of 3 - How to Build samples with the NN-XT module in Reason.
Play oldies strumming techniques on the ukulele. Mute the strings and then strum them. That's how you produce the sound in this video.
Do chord bending on the ukulele. This is a picking technique that sounds a little like what musicians play for country or jazz.
Learn how to play the basic ukulele chord progression in "G"! Play G, E minor, C, and D7 (or you can substitute E minor with B minor). No, it doesn't sound too sad, just a little wistful.
Learn how to play the basic ukulele chord progression in "F"! Play F, D minor, B flat, and C7. It really does sound awesome.
Learn the elaborate finger style of this great song from Kansas. Once you have it down, you won't be able to stop, because it sounds so damn good!
Watch to learn how to pronounce French words with and "ss" sound in them.
Watch to learn how to pronounce letter "k" in French in words that have hard "k"-sounds.
This is a short video for the letter "i". This is one of several videos that go over every letter in the Polish alphabet and every sound of the Polish language. The Polish alphabet are supposed to be the first introduction to this foreign language. It should help to understand how Polish should be pronounced as well as to learn some first Polish words.
Targeting Notes and Creating Harmonies Using MIDI -- Jeff Dykhouse shows us how to use MIDI to tell Auto-Tune which notes to tune. In addition, you can use this technique to create harmonies. Antares Auto-Tune is the fastest, easiest, and highest quality tool for pitch correction. Use this in conjunction with DigiDesign's Pro Tools for awesome sounds.
Make your way through the Chimera tunnels and find your way to the Stronghold's access point. Once inside eliminate all possible enemy threats. Sounds easy? Just wait!
This is a video lesson presents the letters and sounds of the Spanish language. Watch, listen, and repeat. You know the drill!
Watch this video to learn the phonetic sound each letter in the English alphabet makes.
An exploration of expressive dynamics, vibrato, and articulation on the theremin. Two ways of achieving the same violin like sounding vibrato are also covered.
How to do the Bus Stop, with early 90s house music, Fast Eddie Acid Thunder, Betty Boo background, The Sound Factory.
There are many things that can make your audio sound better. One of them is simply making it louder. Just watch this installment of Izzy Video, and see how to adjust audio level in Soundtrack Pro.
Make a simple eye appear dead and chipped at ease. After following this tutorial you will be able to produce these kind of eyes within minutes.
Check out this cool song by one of Justin Sandercoe's favorite bands - The Shins. "Pink Bullets" has a nice easy strumming pattern and cool chords that should make it easy to learn. There are some tricks to getting it to sound just like the record but Justin walks you through them too.
It's classier than clapping for keeping rhythm, and you never know when it'll come in handy.
This Photoshop tutorial uses a combo set of actions to process RAW images to jpeg and is a great tool for batch processing. A multi-step process, that may sound confusing, but won't be once you watch this tutorial.
It's nice to add "depth" to a project -- generally by making something look 3D (or 3D-ish). This is a really easy tip for creating a 3D button in Flash and further goes into adding sounds and scaling the button.
How to create message rules and do auto-sorting with Microsoft Outlook. f you ever wish every email from your Uncle Lou could be put into a folder (or the trash) automatically -- or you want to flag message from your boss -- or you want to have a sound play when an ebay outbid notice comes in, then this tutorial is for you.
Something called the wheel pose may sound too circular for your straight body to recreate, but with a little practice you'll become a much more "well-rounded" individual.
Add unique emotions and overtones to your playing by experimenting with triads over bass notes to build ambient, open chords.
Put an effect on multiple tracks in Logic and make your mix your own with an assortment of cool sounds and layers.
Check out this video from Berkleemusic.com and watch as Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Michael Williams explains how to spice up your rhythm guitar playing and get that T Bone Walker sound by adding chromatic approaches to the chords in your favorite blues guitar progressions.
After months of playing Guitar Hero (II and III), we assumed that graduating to an actual guitar wouldn't be too difficult, right? Unfortunately, it's harder than video games make it look. While learning the chords and basics isn't too difficult for even the least musically inclined of students, creating a decent sounding song can take years. But hey... that's why we call it "For Newbies!"
