Friday, December 17, 2010
I’ve always been more of a Beatles guy than a Stones guy, but respect where respect is due, “Gimme Shelter” is a classic. It’s on my mind because Dangerous Minds posted the isolated tracks, and they’re a lot of fun. It’s fascinating to hear the separated vocals, guitars, bass and drums. The Youtube videos containing [...]
Filed in Music, Recording, Video Games
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Also tagged audio editing, guitar, keith richards, merry clayton, michael jackson, Recording, remixes, rhythm, rock, rolling stones, Sampling, singing, tuning
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In keeping with my posts thinking of the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix as electronic musicians, I thought I’d round out the techno-hippie trifecta with the Dead. Their fans might lean to the crunchy granola side, and they did some of their most endearing work in unplugged mode, but for the most part the Dead were [...]
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Spoiler alert: don’t read until you’ve watched to the end of season three. Mad Men is well-made television, but so is plenty of other television. Why is this particular show so compelling to me and so many of my buddies? I think it’s that watching Mad Men is like watching a documentary about our parents [...]
See also a post about the Dead and electronic music. Whenever I play guitar, it comes out sounding a lot like Jerry Garcia. I can’t help it. From the ages of fifteen to twenty, my guitar-learning years, there was no musician I cared more about in the world than Jerry. It’s not about drugs; I’ve [...]
Filed in Autobio, Emotion, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Music Business
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Also tagged audience participation, depression, design, drugs, electronica, fashion, grateful dead, guitar, hippies, janis joplin, jerry garcia, midi, steal your face, tape trading, viral marketing
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The most-sampled album in history is probably James Brown’s compilation In The Jungle Groove. It includes the original “Funky Drummer Parts One And Two” along with a sampling-friendly remix. It also includes some other much-loved funk tracks. None of them have been sampled as heavily as “Funky Drummer” but there are some contenders. The compilation [...]
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Also tagged drumming, Evolution, funk, funky drummer, james brown, lil mama, michael jackson, Music, percussion, primates, queen, remixes, rhythm, rnb, Sampling, seventies, soul, steven mithen, stone age
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My friend Leo told me that he always faces a conflict when shopping for jazz records. He wants to show love for working musicians by buying their newer recordings, but then, he could always just pick up another Miles Davis album and know it’s going to be ridiculously good. Probably my favorite Miles album out [...]
Filed in Composition, Improvisation, Key Musicians, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Also tagged audio editing, funk, Improvisation, jazz, miles davis, Music, Music Theory, Recording, recursion, remixes, seventies, tape editing
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When I was in third grade, my mom and stepfather went on academic sabbatical to London for six months, taking my sister and me with them. I guess I’m grateful for the chance to experience another culture and everything, but it was a rough six months. I missed my dad, school, New York, the Muppet [...]
Filed in Hardware, Key Musicians, Music, Recording, Sampling
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Also tagged analog, bbc, delia derbyshire, doctor who, eighties, electronica, keybs, multitracking, scifi, synths, tape editing, tv, uk, vocoder
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Say “oooh” as in “noodle.” Then say “aaah” as in “park.” When you say “oooh” your mouth is more closed, with less resonating space and a smaller opening. This configuration blocks the higher overtones of your voice. When you say “aaah” your jaw and lips open, creating more resonating space and letting more high overtones [...]
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Also tagged electronica, envelope filter, funk, guitar, harmonics, jimi hendrix, keybs, metal, overtones, Physics, physiology, pop, resonance, rock, seventies, soul, speech, wah pedal
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