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MakeMusic has announced Finale 2012b, a maintenance update for the notation software for Windows and Mac.

Finale 2012b is a free download for everyone who owns Finale 2012. It includes several new features including automatic range checking, the Finale Lyrics font, EPUB export, a new Aria Player, and more. Finale 2012b also includes more than 60 bug fixes. Visit the update page to see all the details and to download the update.

New in Finale 2012b

• Automatic Range Checking.
• Automatic Octave Adjustments when copying between staves.
• The ability to export EPUB compatible files (viewable on most tablet devices).
• New Finale Lyrics font makes lyrics more legible (even on tablet devices).
• Dozens of improvements that target long-standing customer requests.

Finale 2012b is a free update for registered Finale 2012 users.

More information: MakeMusic

Hal Leonard Books has published Worship Musician! Presents The Worship Band Book by Tom Lane, a mini boot camp for bands, artists, worship teams, and worship ministries.

Whether you’re in a band yourself or part of a ministry involved with teams, this book can help you on your journey. For 30 years, musician, songwriter, and worshipper Tom Lane has worked in the Christian worship music industry and alongside churches, ministries, and movements around the world associated with worship.

In this collection of articles, Lane encourages honesty and clear communication from all sides while aiming for the right thing – to be a band that worships, first and foremost. Spiritual, relational, professional, and practical issues relevant for individuals and groups in worship ministry of any kind are addressed head on.

Historically, bands have helped lead revolutions, crusades, campaigns, churches, rallies, and entire nations. The role bands play in worship, though important, is not the pinnacle of the calling or mandate according to Jesus. While it’s okay to have a good rock band and want to go places, many creatively gifted Christians miss the mark entirely and are derailed by their own quests for something other than God. Likewise, worship teams sometimes miss the mark by placing too much emphasis onperformance and not enough on relationships. This book will help lay the foundation for a healthier pursuit of creative dreams and a closer walk with God.

The Worship Band Book is available to purchase for $16.99 USD.

More information: Hal Leonard / The Worship Band Book

Hooktheory, a resource for learning how to write songs and understand music, has posted an interesting analysis of chords used in 1,300 popular songs.

In this article, we’ll look at the statistics gathered from 1300 choruses, verses, etc. of popular songs to discover the answer to a few basic questions.

First we’ll look at the relative popularity of different chords based on the frequency that they appear in the chord progressions of popular music. Then we’ll begin to look at the relationship that different chords have with one another. For example, if a chord is found in a song, what can we say about the probability for what the next chord will be that comes after it?

More information: Hooktheory

Plan8 and 14islands have launched Bandcontroller, an experimental audio game for the Chrome browser.

This is a demo showing our little Chrome Experiment with Web Audio API, Googles fantastic Audio API for the Chrome browser. It lets you do stuff you couldn´t do before in a browser. It takes shape as a little game, where you control certain aspects of a song using your iphone as a control unit. Very handy for doing synth solos.

More information: Bandcontroller

FatBeatShop has launched its new online service offering beats for sale.

Are you an artist, rapper, singer? Are you looking for high quality beats, at affordable prices, created with attention to every detail, great sounding and definitely outstanding in quality comparing to what domestic producers offer? If so, we invite you to the newly opened service www.Fatbeatshop.com

Fatbeatshop is a service designed to sell music to a wide audience without territorial restrictions, created by musicians being also businessmen, present in the industry for many years, with a large number of successes throughout the world.

The beats at FatBeatShop are available to purchase with various non-exclusive and exclusive licenses.

Until the end of June, 2012, all beats are 20% off in the opening sale. Use coupon code OPEN at checkout.

More information: FatBeatShop

Luftrum has announced an Animoog Challenge, a contest in which users of Luftrum’s Animoog soundset can win $300 USD in cash.

Win 300$ with the Luftrum Animoog Challenge.

The goal is to create a track based on the sounds from Luftrum 8 – Soundset for Animoog. No other sounds, synth or external effects are allowed.

The track can be any style or genre. You are allowed to submit one track to the challenge and the track must be no longer than 5 minutes in length.

Entries for the challenge must be submitted no later than Monday June 18th, 2012.

More information: Luftrum