If you don’t subscribe to Louis Gerrits youtube channel…..do it now.
This was a video that was shown at the Brecker Memorial in 2007. Awesome stuff. I still think he is second to none.
Month: June 2014
Sheet Of The Week – All Of Me (John Legend)
Kinda a cool song. Haven’t really written out anything by him.
All Of Me by John Legend for Eb Instruments (101.7 KiB, 204 hits)
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All Of Me by John Legend for Bb Instruments (102.3 KiB, 155 hits)
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Michael Brecker Band – Jazz Jamboree 1989
Never heard this concert before. And it’s rip pin!
The Story Of Tina Brooks
If you have never heard Tina Brooks, check him out. A saxophonist who should have been synonymous with names like Joe Henderson, Stanely Turrentine, etc.
He was 28 when he made the record, and you might have thought, if you didn’t know better, that he was well on his way to an influential career in the jazz forefront. Then comes the sobering thought— when Tina Brooks recorded The Waiting Game in 1961, his career was effectively finished. The record date fell five days before his 29th birthday, but he never recorded again. He would live 13 more years, but neither The Waiting Game nor any of the other music of his mature years was released in his lifetime. He died at 42, a bitter, penniless, incapacitated wreck, but he was he was given up for dead years before that.
Instruments and Technology
Band in a Box 2014 Mac
PG Music just released an update to one of the best programs out for Apple using musicians….Band in a Box 2014 for Mac
What is new? Well, they are touting their “GUI has been redesigned” thing. Here is what it looks like: 
while it’s a little better than it was, it still has a LOT of issues. First, you can’t really get rid of any of the unnecessary buttons. Like say you never ever are going to use the Video Help. Or you never want to do StyleMaker. Or the Jukebox mode. You are stuck with them.
More RealTracks. Even some Phil Woods and Gary Smulyan….though the way Band in a Box “puts together” a Phil Woods solo, it sounds strange. Not very Phil like at all for me.
The other “big” thing is that you can start adding your own loops to chords and stuff. “And, if you add an Acid loop that is on a certain root (e.g. F), Band-in-a-Box will instantly allow you to use that as a complete style, by transposing that loop to the current chord of the song in Band-in-a-Box, so that the loop follows your chord progression.” Which is great news.
Gripes….yes, of COURSE there are gripes about the program.
First, besides the cutter and button problems from above, lets talk about their Yellow and Green boxes. Instead of using the Notification center like a good Mac OS X program, it uses these hack-y little green and yellow boxes. They are really addicted to them. So much so they even have a “FlashMessageLog.txt” feature they added to show you a log of the messages. Come on people, if you did it in Notification Center, you wouldn’t need to do that.
Second, serial numbers. For a long…..long time. Since the beginning……there has NEVER been a serial number to use Band in a Box. Ever. EVER. Even back on the Atari ST days……no serial numbers. Hello 2014……you get a serial number. Not sure if it actually goes anywhere and checks to see if you have used your allocated number of computers (which is generous, 3). But still……serial numbers? That is not going to stop anyone. Even Adobe’s creative cloud stuff is out there for download and fully operational with serial/auth hacks. I guess it is more the “between friends” sharing then? I dunno. Does it check in with something? I guess I will find out, since I technically have 4 macs which I can install this on….so yea….
Third, full screen. They say they have a Full Screen mode, but its not a Mac full screen. Its more a NO TOOLBAR clutter mode.
So, besides the little gripes I have, this is still…..BY FAR……one of the best programs for a musician. Anyone getting this NEEDS to have the FULL thing, with all the RealTracks (or at least the ones you are interested in). It’s yet another refinement of an excellent program. Lets hope next year’s version (2015) comes sporting a 10.10 style redesign.
Sheet Of The Week – Human (Christina Perri)
Yet another by Christina Perri
Human by Christina Perri for Eb Instruments (91.9 KiB, 70 hits)
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Human by Christina Perri for Bb Instruments (95.4 KiB, 38 hits)
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LeRoi Moore’s Setup
Science Shows How Guitar Player’s Brains Are Actually Different
This is an interesting article:
For starters, guitarists literally have the ability to synchronize their brains while playing. In a 2012 study in Berlin, researchers had 12 pairs of guitarists play the same piece of music while having their brains scanned. They discovered that the guitarists’ neural networks would synchronize not only during the piece, but even slightly before playing. So, basically, guitarists can read each others’ minds better than they can read music.
That synch happens in the areas of the brain that deal with music production and social cognition, so it makes a real difference in how tight a band sounds. When people talk about a band’s chemistry, this may well be what they’re seeing. It also explains why brothers are the core duo in so many famous rock bands.
Wow, seems Guitarists have brains ;-). Next they will say Drummers have brains too…….