Jack Cooper - Guelph, ON Musician

So I’m working on three projects now. Four, actually, counting a mini project wrapping up. The mini project is a small collection of songs by a London based singer named Gary Boyle. He is a very nice gentleman who I met this past summer at London’s Home County festival. A friend [...]

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 [...]

Baseball season is almost over!
I’m about to breathe a huge sigh of relief- baseball season is almost finished.  I’m not a sports junkie in general- I have zero to little interest in professional hockey or football, although I do enjoy following basketball from time to time.  I was a horrible athlete growing up.  I was [...]

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 [...]