Rambling Irishman - John Barbour Solo

I finally did it! What did I just do?

In the middle (bridge) and the end of Great Big Sea's John Barbour, there's an amazing whistle piece (you're my hero, Bob!). After a lot of research and notation reading, I found out that it's a modified version of the traditional Irish song Rambling Irishman used for instrumental solos.

I have finally finished writing the ABC Notation.

X:1
T:Rambling Irishman ("John Barbour" version)
M:4/4
L:1/8
R: reel
K:Dmaj
dB | A2AB d2d2 | edef a2bg | a2fe fedB | d3A BAFG |
A2AB d2d2 | edef a2bg | a2fe dBAB | d6 fg |
a2bg a2fg | aabg a3f | a2gf edBd | e2ef edBd ! 
A2AB d2d2 | edef a2bg | a2fe dBAB | d6 fg ||

I have written the tune in D for whistle fingering even though it's played on a B-flat whistle

If you've never seen or heard of ABC Notation, I wrote an indepth tutorial on the Insomniac Games Forums in 2008.

If you're lazy, the dot-notation is posted after the jump.

Bodhrán & Stained Glass

Two new shots on Flickr



I decided to end my photography drought this weekend with a few shots and events. Got two amazing results. First the above shot: My favorite musical instrument couple. The second after the jump.

The Start of Precision

And the Flow of "Level & Lives" -Based Games


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5 days ago I posted my favorite IDE color scheme. If you read between the lines, that means I was sitting back down to my coding chair. Small note: thank you for the 100 download in 5 days of my Putty Base color scheme for Visual Studio.

I have started the final project of 3DBuzz's XNA Xtreme 101 volume 2: Precision.

With the start of this project, a game-flow discussion that turned out to be the standard game-flow of level- and lives-based games. I decided to chart it out. "Game Over" state can do a lot of things. You can go back to title, you can have a special "restart/continue/credit" scenario... that is pretty much up to you. The basic is the same all around.

What Makes a Good IDE Color Scheme

Last night I posted what is my all-time favorite color scheme. It then occurred to me that not everyone knows what to look for in a color scheme. It’s mostly a matter of taste, but there are essentials.

Putty your IDE

If you’re a developer or programmer and have spent considerable time reading and writing code, you know how important it is to have a good color scheme in your IDE that’s easy to read and easy for your eyes.

There are a lot of different color schemes for different IDE’s. I’ve looked on-and-off for years. I stuck to Ruby Blue on different IDE’s for quite some time. I recently stumbled on one and have ported it to different IDE’s... Putty!