Jack Cooper - Guelph, ON Musician

As I mentioned in a previous entry, I have been using lilypond as my primary tool for transcribing and formatting sheet music.  Lilypond is open source and freeware and runs on Windows, Mac and unix/linux environments.  There is no user interface with lilypond.  You simply type the markup language commands into a file or series [...]

In order to create a leadsheet for a musician, I require two things– a recording of the song and a lyric sheet.  If I am including fret diagrams, I sometimes need to get more information from the musician about the tuning used and some specific chord shapes.  A fret diagram is a fancy picture found [...]

I’ve been inspired recently by a friend in Kitchener named G.K. Eckert who recently created a blog site.  G.K., like many artists and teachers I know, knows the secret of success isn’t how talented or lucky or anything else you are, but how persistent you are and how receptive you are to new or existing [...]

I’ve decided to revamp my jack-cooper.com web site.  I debated whether or not to keep this site active, as I haven’t performed regularly for a few years and haven’t recorded anything for about eight years.  Yet I thought there might still be some worth in trying to document my past and present activities as an individual [...]