Dan Schmidt
@dfan.bsky.social
Co-creator of Ultima Underworld, Guitar Hero, Rock Band, et al. Lead singer & songwriter of Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer-Incentives. These days I mostly play the piano and Go.
I just had some fun times reading through a score from 1817 where the dots in dotted notes don't come until after the original note length runs out. I had no idea this was a thing.
July 31, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I just had some fun times reading through a score from 1817 where the dots in dotted notes don't come until after the original note length runs out. I had no idea this was a thing.
William Bolcom straight-up trolling me with an A♭♭ dominant seventh chord (the key signature at this point is Oops! All Flats)
July 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
William Bolcom straight-up trolling me with an A♭♭ dominant seventh chord (the key signature at this point is Oops! All Flats)
Also a big fan of this one
June 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Also a big fan of this one
The Russian edition is a little better:
May 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The Russian edition is a little better:
A sign that you're playing too much Blue Prince: you get excited when you see this while walking down the street
May 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
A sign that you're playing too much Blue Prince: you get excited when you see this while walking down the street
Attention all musicians: the chance that I will buy your record goes up by around a factor of 10 if an excerpt of its sheet music is on the album cover.
March 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Attention all musicians: the chance that I will buy your record goes up by around a factor of 10 if an excerpt of its sheet music is on the album cover.
Love to sight-read music in A# minor
January 3, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Love to sight-read music in A# minor
I went to look up the original music to Jingle Bells to see if it had a secondary dominant under "one-horse open" and boy was it not what I expected. Full score at drive.google.com/file/d/12gOf...
December 7, 2024 at 12:26 AM
I went to look up the original music to Jingle Bells to see if it had a secondary dominant under "one-horse open" and boy was it not what I expected. Full score at drive.google.com/file/d/12gOf...
Implementing Whole-History Rating to measure long-term performance in an online Go league
November 23, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Implementing Whole-History Rating to measure long-term performance in an online Go league
This one was working for me
November 13, 2024 at 11:45 PM
This one was working for me
As a kid I had that Beethoven LP set and listened to it over and over and over along with a book containing all the miniature scores (archive.org/details/nine...). It probably influenced my musical development more than any other single thing.
October 31, 2024 at 8:45 PM
As a kid I had that Beethoven LP set and listened to it over and over and over along with a book containing all the miniature scores (archive.org/details/nine...). It probably influenced my musical development more than any other single thing.
Also apparently I'm partially responsible for Black Midi?
October 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Also apparently I'm partially responsible for Black Midi?
You read Pynchon enough, you start writing tunes to all the songs 🚀
September 2, 2024 at 2:33 PM
You read Pynchon enough, you start writing tunes to all the songs 🚀
The House of Ten Dumb Guys in Somerville MA, 30 years later. It still looks about the same from the outside.
October 5, 2023 at 7:37 PM
The House of Ten Dumb Guys in Somerville MA, 30 years later. It still looks about the same from the outside.