Wednesday, November 10, 2010
I’ve picked up some new guitar students lately, so I’m once again doing a lot of explaining what a tritone is and why people should care. Whenever I find myself explaining something a lot, I like to encapsulate it as a blog post. So here we go. A tritone is the interval between the notes [...]
Filed in Emotion, Math, Music, Music Theory
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Also tagged blues, busta rhymes, chords, irrational numbers, Math, melodic minor, michael jackson, miles davis, Music Theory, scales, simpsons, sonny rollins, stevie wonder, thelonious monk, tritones
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Working on Janet Jackson songs made me want to see if she did any tracks with Michael. Here’s what the internet has to say: Michael sings backup vocals on Janet’s early album Dream Street. Janet sings backup on Michael’s “PYT.” She’s in the part towards the end where he says “Pretty young things, repeat after [...]
Filed in Autobio, Music
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Also tagged Autobio, creativity, guitar, harmony, hip-hop, janet jackson, michael jackson, molly, Music, Music Theory, singing, teaching, vest pocket psalm
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Before digital recording media, recording artists faced a tradeoff between spontaneity and perfection. Recording take after take until the performances are spotless can quickly suck the joy and energy out of the music. But the kind of sloppiness that goes unnoticed in a live performance can get on your nerves after many repeated listens. It’s [...]
Filed in Composition, Improvisation, Music, Recording, Sampling, Software
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Also tagged audio editing, beatles, composing, gnarls barkley, hip-hop, kind of blue, looping, michael jackson, miles davis, Music, pro tools, Recording, thriller
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
I find myself in the new and delightful position of writing for money. So I needed to step up my game in terms of workflow and file management. The last time I tried to write something long, I was in college, using Windows 3.1 and good old Wordperfect 6. Then the Microsoft hegemony set in [...]
Filed in Interfaces, Software, Writing
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Also tagged attention, cruft, design, feature creep, flow, indexcards, interface, minimalism, omnioutliner, plain text, rtf, scrivener, Writing
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