Portland Music Company is a locally owned independent Music instrument store founded in 1927. We have 3 convenient locations in the Portland Area. We carry thousands of products for our local or traveling musicians, we also ship all across the United Sta
One day in August (2018), I took a break from some chores. I put on some random music. I heard some singer-songwriter stuff I liked well enough. I felt inspired (and perhaps also looking for an outlet to procrastinate and push away some stress). I picked up my guitar, and a new ...
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Even within only guitar music, navigating the extreme diversity is completely overwhelming. When asked what music one likes, the most common answer today (in my experience) is "everything." I'm not even sure how much today's kids listen to the same music as their immediate friends (tell m...
On June 26, 1921, at the first Northwest Radio Association Convention, Charles Austin also broadcast phonograph music to radio operators on ships in Portland’s harbor and it was heard as far away as Astoria from station 7XF. One of Portland’s first radio station licenses was granted toThe...
A guy playing a cardboard guitar, calling himself Elvis use to be here on the weekend but I guess he's not performing any longer. On occasion there is a guy in silver paint standing as still as a statue. It's a great way to spend the afternoon. Portland has one of the best down...
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Music in these formats can be found online for an extremely large selection of music, particularly for pop/rock music (see online resources below). Tux Guitar vs MuseScore: Musescore 2 now covers many of the functions of Tux Guitar including file import and tablature. Musescore is likely to...
This week's assignment was to do something creative involving learning the basic parts of the brain, so I wrote a song, of course: Brain Parts SongbyAaron Wolf I had to fight the urge to be a perfectionist. I simply didn't have time to add all sorts of instrumentation or details or ...