GovernorSilver

Interesting monologue from Mr. Lande. Thanks for posting! The part about listening to the music and letting the story of music unfold is easy enough to understand, but a challenge to implement for those of us who are not at an advanced level. But it's something to aspire to. Also interesting points about recording vs. playing live, not having to expend so much energy "emoting". Also, thanks for turning me on to his music!

Funny thing is my bandleader went up to my Korg M3 and dialed in a particular "f-d up piano" sound she was looking for. She did mention NIN as an inspiration. It was a piano patch with some pitch modulation going on. I thought that Howard Levy did some piano note bending for his solo on this old Flecktones track, but it turns it was just some funky FX applied to the piano: [video:youtube]

Speaking of old school I gotta give a shout out to Johnny Smith, whose music I only recently discovered. [video:youtube] He wasn't just a great chord-melody player. He could also burn with a band [video:youtube]

One of the younger masters of fingerstyle jazz guitar, well-versed in the history of jazz but also possessing a modern harmonic vocabulary. [video:youtube]

One of my newer favorite players is Andy Wood, who came up through the bluegrass scene as a mandolinist. [video:youtube] Another is Melanie Faye. [video:youtube]

Another personal favorite guitarist - Steve Lukather this time - on the keys, with yet another, Jay Graydon, on guitar. The story of this song cracks me up. Graydon wrote the song for George Benson while sitting on the toilet, then brought in Lukather and Champlin to help finish the song. Lukather wrote the keyboard part for the verse I think. [video:youtube]

Lots of great young players for sure in the bluegrass scene.

I don't care if he makes anybody's best of list but the documentary on Brazilian choro made me a fan [video:youtube] I'm sure Eric has been on somebody's best guitarist list from time to time. But how many of you have seen him play piano? [video:youtube]

Their 90-100 spots include Annie Clark (St. Vincent, niece of fellow guitar legend Tuck Andress), the Fugazi guys, Marnie Stern, and Keiji Haino. I'm ok with that. I was on the Allan Holdsworth fan FB group for a bit - seems like all they do is whine when a best guitarists list comes out and their man ain't #1. Ok, there were a couple of cool peeps there like Brett Garsed, Jamie Glaser, and this cool guy who put out some interesting e-books on guitar harmony. But overall I don't miss the noise of that group. I didn't have the patience to click through the rest of the Spin article - I have a strong dislike of slideshow style articles. I have a new appreciation for Charlie Christian, having now learned his "Grand Slam" and "Benny's Bugle" solos, and re-learning the "Rose Room" solo - had to play it for a class in university - cute girl I had a crush on was in the audience, and I totally messed up the solo because I could never play those freaking F9 to B7 triplet arpeggios in time at the required tempo. Seems like today's players think of Charlie's style as quaint but, man he played some unique lines and he swung like a mofo

If I got my math right, Alabama has 5000 new cases in the past 14 days, and half of Montgomery County's total cases were from the same period. They reopened zoos, summer camps, movie theaters, and bowling alleys on May 22: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/26/862348495/mayor-of-montgomery-ala-we-have-not-won-the-battle-with-covid-19-yet?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR2pOs-bPwuFzqVGAcDBvbLHd749PKwkq9WPYSZd9Xx6L6vlY-bfxrocVr0

I try to check multiple news sources myself, because I just want information from the news, not validation of personal world view or belief system. The gist that I've gotten from reports of Sweden's COVID planning is they thought they could get away with staying open because they have a relatively young population. I don't claim deep expertise in Swedish politics, but the decision to not close was probably from a different point of view from that of American anti-lockdown protesters.

Sweden's approach to combating the pandemic doesn't seem to be working out as they'd hoped https://www.npr.org/2020/05/25/861923548/stockholm-wont-reach-herd-immunity-in-may-sweden-s-chief-epidemiologist-says?utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR03QvWq1d3oEUHylAYvtJ6vorxdwRuX2_enQdBl7cwhAhHE2mIylwE8vdQ&fbclid=IwAR2x0TD5zZvD_kt6mPTj85XByGN5z1F5uCaP2o0yqUSOTdatjRqbkjAQhZg

Ok, this looks wacky but I gotta give this bar points for creativity. Like it or not, there are a lot of would-be patrons out there that will refuse to support a sit-in bar or restaurant if they don't feel safe. https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/22/860682281/a-maryland-restaurants-unique-solution-to-social-distancing-inner-tube-tables?utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3Gg8bXN5sWH9aA6HDNntykMioKRMeqCjSl3TdtozikN2yPer3EYbz7qdk

I like Al Jazeera for international coverage and when I'm just tired of the right-left duality of American news coverage.

Agreed. Any chart that puts CNN, NYT, and WashPo in the middle is beyond ridiculous and I can believe anyone would take it seriously. I agree the chart has some flaws, but it's right - no pun intended - about Fox News and Info Wars, as well as Natural News and (duh!) Occupy D on the other side. At least they didn't bother showing Breitbart. On past election nights, I flipped between Fox and CNN to try to get "balanced" coverage, since I knew the two would balance each other out.

I'm not familiar with the Android community but in the iPad community, the number of users who are using an iPad as a laptop replacement is very much in the minority. Most use the iPad as a complementary device rather than as as a replacement. I got my first iPad when my Macbook Pro died - headphone jack stopped working, fan stopped working, goodbye motherboard. Macbook Pros in that time were heavier than today's models so I thought to replace the laptop with an iMac and get an iPad instead of another laptop for travel and sketching out music and stuff on the go. I got my 2nd and most-used iPad (iPad Pro) after Apple switched to 64-bit IOS and just about all the developers of my favorite apps followed suit. So having to buy another iPad because of the new OS and addiction to IOS apps was a downside. Another downside is filesystem navigation. The introduction of the Files app was a huge improvement, but there are still some possible confusion if an app that you like doesn't place nicely with Files/iPadOS - an example is Drambo which saves files either to iCloud or the /Documents folder on local iPad... and Documents does not show by default in Files. Another possible annoyance is no support for aggregate MIDI interfaces, just aggregate audio. Random things I like about my iPad Pro/iPad: - I can easily bring it with me to my workout area and play streaming exercise programs on it while following along - After I had eye surgery and was required to keep my face pointed to the floor virtually all the time, it was nice to put the iPad on a box or something and watch movies and stuff while maintaining face-down position. - A number of music creation apps exploit the multitouch screen for a nice user experience (Animoog, Moog Model 15, Geoshred, Thumbjam, Borderlands Granular, iDensity) - Airdrop makes wireless file transfer between desktop/laptop Mac and iPad super easy Current iPad Pro model has USB-C connector, which is a plus for some peeps. The other models don't seem to have it though. No I would not recommend it to just any friend. Some friends would only want to use a tablet for couch-surfing, not music - Android should be a better value for the money for them, but I have no idea what the pros/cons really are other than price.

Nice looking bike! In the intervening time between 2016 and now, I continued the hour each way bike commute, splitting time between the Renegade and the Breezer Uptown 8. Then I changed jobs and the commute shortened to 35 min. each way. Then I changed jobs again and the commute got cut in half again to 12-15 minutes. Loved the short ride, but at this latest job I could only park my bike outdoors, so the Renegade's been gathering dust. Now I'm between jobs again and shopping for neck gaiters, so I have something I can wear around my neck and quickly pull over my face if I have to pass within 6' of anybody.

Expressive E announced the hardware design has been finalized. Someone else posted photos here: https://www.elektronauts.com/t/expressive-e-osmose/110993/327 This book happens to be on sale today so I"m ordering. It contains 12 piano etudes as part of the study of the Indian Melakarta system. I cannot think of a more appropriate piano lesson book to work with on the Osmose. https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/elements-of-indian-music-sheet-music/20820986

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/19/858837518/maryland-reports-largest-rise-yet-in-coronavirus-cases-4-days-after-reopening?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR0gXMnFQqbeStsDnPorzXzCDITvW4l7q8mJ4g1ou29IaMnP5jSo2bBDLow Article doesn't say how strictly patrons to the reopened businesses, churches, etc. adhered to the 6-foot rule, how many wore masks, etc. At least the governor immediately pushed to increase testing.

I guess one could consider this good news overall -vaccine progress looks great, but... but... but feel free to delete this Mr. Anderton if it crosses the line. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/18/politics/moncef-slaoui-moderna-stocks-coronavirus-vaccine/index.html

Yup. "Herd immunity" tends to be rolled into exhortations to have coronavirus parties - get people to deliberately infect themselves.. I respect those who want to believe in herd immunity, that it will become real. Nothing wrong with hoping for it to happen. OTOH using the phrase "herd immunity" as a rallying cry to get people to engage in voluntary infection is something I will not support.

John Hopkins University of Medicine statement on herd immunity: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-a-dangerous-misconception I don't want to make fun of other people's hopes for herd immunity vs. COVID-19, and I don't support public shaming of people not wearing maeks. OTOH, I can't support the idea of controlled voluntary infection.

I forgot I was the one who started this thread. Congrats, Joe and enjoy in good health!

What drove me to learn Sunvox was losing my iPhone, replacing it with what I could afford at the time, which was an iPhone 5 with very limited drive space. I couldn't use Korg Gadget because of the limited space. There was some issue or another with Beatmaker 2 that I forgot about. No Cubasis 2 on iPhone. So I thought I'd try SunVox as my new music creation workstation. It was a bit rough with the small size of the iPhone screen, but I was pleasantly surprised how responsive the UI is finger actions - and more importantly how predictable the response is, unlike apps with virtual knobs that turn the opposite direction of your finger swipe. By this time, Sunvox was being delivered with Template projects, with instruments already set up for drum, bass, etc. roles. Not having to take the time to patch up a sound for each part made the learning process a whole lot faster. Solar Lune's tutorial videos are kind of old now but still very useful for getting started. I'd recommend downloading the desktop version of Sunvox, which is free, and using that for learning along with the tutorials, instead of learning along on the iPhone version like I did. My only problem with Sunvox these days is all on me - I can't decide what next steps to take with the song I started putting together in SunVox.

Oh, sh*t!! I've been saying we should "think" of reopening sooner rather than later because of the threat of a serious recession or depression but holy crap, not like this. Keep it tightly controlled and all that stuff. The Wisconsin election has been one of my examples, not much in the way of new cases precisely because it was pretty well controlled but to throw all the bars open at once? What was the court thinking? Well, ok then my thoughts are with these partiers and I sincerely hope it works out but wow....what a test. Talk about having a bad feeling about something. I thought of one of my favorite bartenders. He was at the Pfister hotel in Milwaukee when I spent a weekend in 2014 to attend an Octatrack workshop, which was led by a gentleman who regularly hosted production workshops (Maschine, Ableton Live, etc.) for the inner city youth. One of the rare bartenders who are just like in the old movies - made killer cocktails, a knack for getting bar patrons to talk to each others, great personality, etc. I see though that Milwaukee quickly jumped on enacting its own restrictions in line with the state order.