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How Excel can simplify music arrangements

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How Excel can simplify music arrangements

(energetic electronic music) - Have you thought about using Excel to help you understand music or a song? I'm going to show you. But hold on. (bell dinging) This is not a music theory session. You don't need to know music, but I'm going to show you something pretty cool. But let me first thank fellow LinkedIn Learning author, Julian Velard for allowing us to use this song. Let's fire it up. ("24-Hour Flower Boy" by Julian Velard) A ♪ 24-hour flower boy ♪ ♪ So nice to see ♪ D A G sharp minor seven C sharp seven ♪ Happy to see you're still employed ♪ - If you're perplexed, I'm a musician, and I'm perplexed. But this is a common music thing where sheet music is basically a report. It's data that's provided to us. When I was in bands, I struggled to understand music like this. It was hard to learn songs, and then, I started putting songs into Excel. (bell dinging) And this is what I've got. One page in a grid that's always four cells long for each row. We've got an intro that's four…

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