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I have the book. I didn't get much out of it initially, but I've been meaning to check it out again.
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Here's a youtube video with more info about the inexpensive video switcher Jim mentions in his article:
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Jim I have read and reread this live streaming article like 4 times now, as well as sharing it with a bunch of different musicians. Thanks for posting it.
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I lost:
-Hockey game tonight
-Duo gig tomorrow
-Indoor Soccer game Sunday
-Corporate gig Monday
-Big event w/ Ska Big Band gig next Sat
-Corporate gig a week from Monday
-2 more hockey games that week
-Padres opening day, that following Sunday, all following baseball games
-Big corporate gig that week.
Just through the end of March. About $3K of work through the end of the month. Thank God I have a 3 month emergency fund and a wife whose Speech Therapy gig isn't gonna be payless at least for the time being.
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No offense personally, but how many threads do we need on this subject? Coudnlt this be part of the other half dozen threads already gone "viral" (pun intended)? Yes, gigs are getting cancelled. We have threads many pages thick discussing this,
I don't really see that many threads discussing it?
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The 7-piece soul band I play with just cancelled their next two shows scheduled for the next two weekends. After that we have a 4 week hiatus before we have a scheduled performance again. So the thinking was by cancelling two shows, we then have a six-week period to see how things go. I'm disappointed of course, and also can't help but think we are committing band suicide by cancelling, and the venues won't have us back again
Nobody is going to hold this against you. Believe me within a couple days wherever you are, pretty much everything will be cancelled. Out here in Cali EVERYTHING is cancelled.
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This thread is a house of horrors
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When something like that happens, you can focus on your bad luck, or instead on how much worse it could have been.
That's true! And I have to say after my initial shock at my new circumstances, I actually got kind of fired up for the free nights I'll have to hang with my wife and kid. It could have been WAY worse that's totally right.
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It's been an interesting week.
I was so pumped to sub on a challenging jazz hit on Tuesday at a cool venue five blocks away from my house. I had just parked and was getting out of my car to unload when I proceeded to slam the car door on my right pinky. I felt the throbbing smash and hoped it was just a nasty pinch but when I looked down there was a gash and blood was flowing at a nice clip. It was one of those moments where you wish you could go back and do the last 5 seconds over. I called the leader sheepishly and told him 'Sorry, I can't make the gig I have to go to the E.R.'. which was just great, as there's nothin like that feeling of letting your fellow musicians down.
So I stopped by my house and burst in telling my wife 'I am taking your car to the E.R., I need you to put my car (full of gear) in the garage'. I made my way to the room that has our first aid stuff in it and flicked the light on. But the light didn't come on. I cursed at the light and all of a sudden the power for the whole house went out. Sure why not. So in mild shock I fumbled for my cell phone light and grabbed some gauze, some ice from the freezer, and put a woefully overmatched band aid on my gaping wound.
I made my way to our local ER and sat around for 2 hours until they could admit me. While I sat around I watched the relatively empty waiting room steadily fill up with a diverse cast of characters including a couple of good looking young tweakers holding but not eating chicken nuggets, to some homeless guys to EMTs pushing wheelchairs containing bummed people. At about 90 minutes I approached one of the EMTs and showed him my wound and asked 'Hey, am I in the right place?'. He said yes. But people with life threatening stuff like traumas and heart attacks are admitted first, through a door that I don't see. And it happens to be one of the busiest nights they've seen in weeks, at pretty much the busiest ER in the county. Okay well that makes sense, treat those folks first! I just don't want to lose the use of my finger because I waited around when I could have gone somewhere else. It happens to be how I make my living.
I finally get treated with X rays (which were negative), a tetanus booster, a bunch of shots of lidocane at the base of my finger (to numb it) and five stitches on this cut.
While I'm waiting on this I am texting everybody from this great week of gigs I had been looking forward to. Fun funky organ trio at a pizza/beer spot on Thursday - sorry dude I have to bail. Duo on Friday at a hotel with one of my favorite singers - gotta find someone else.
So I left with a prescription for 800 mg Ibuprofen and antibiotics. The next day I went to my church rehearsal on Wednesday and figured that if I can't play piano with 10 fingers at least I can lay down something utilitarian with 9 fingers. It went better than expected.
The big test would be over the weekend. 2 huge corporate gigs with my Top 40 band for which it would be both really difficult and really obnoxious to the band for me to find a sub. Not to mention how much $ could I stand to lose? So I decided I would soldier on through it with 9 fingers. Some of the stuff on these top 40 parts would need to be simplified, but I could get through it. My biggest worry was this jazz trio set we had to do before our Top 40 set on Saturday. Exposed soloing down a finger. So we nervously count off the first tune and right away I was pretty happy to find that my sub conscious could mostly plot a course around that finger. I breathed a sigh of relief and the rest of the gig went well. The morning right after I had church which went off without a hitch, that afternoon I went to a buddy's high school big band rehearsal to help their keyboardist, and I did more talking than playing so that was cool, and that night (last night) had a corporate hit for 3 freezing hours outside on the beach, but again it mostly went smoothly.
And now all the gigs are being cancelled due to corona virus and AB5! What a time to be alive. But the good news is my finger should hopefully have time to heal. The bad news is I can't practice and I can't garden. Still, I was pretty lucky that nothing was broken and that I didn't totally ruin any gigs for anyone. Gnarly pics and video from the 9 fingered jazz trio set below::
(cross posted with some alterations on Facebook)
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That's interesting. There are a number of books that were on Warner Bros which would mean they are under the Alfred umbrella and not Hal Leonard. So it's possible this 'omnibus' is only some of what's really available.
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How could Gitler pan that solo on Avalon !! Did you hear that ?! Holy Mother of God ! And his solo on "Soul Eyes"... wtf are they hearing ?!
That's what I thought too.
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Man I've wanted Omnisphere for years. It's just - well it's $500! Surely it goes on sale a couple times a year. Next time it does maybe I'll snag it.
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Here's a link to Ethan Iverson's great essay on McCoy and his impact and reception. I just reread the whole thing.
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Was listening to Page One on repeat a couple days ago. Nobody plays 'Recorda Me' as nicely as it sounds on the original record. McCoy's solo is wonderful.
Dang!! RIP McCoy
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I used to use MacProVideo for lots of stuff, though it's been a few years since I checked any of their courses out.
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As someone who has used Finale for 20 years I always find more people singing Sibelius' praises than talking about it being outdated, bloated and unworkable. So this thread is interesting to me.
I know Finale has plenty of issues, so I guess it all depends on what you use the program for. I am able to work around Finale's quirks enough that is still suits my needs, so I don't see myself penning a similar breakup letter anytime soon.
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Was it Benmont on organ?
Yes indeed Larry on organ. And San Diego's own Rebecca Jade on BGVs which I know you must have seen.
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This is why iRealPro is a handy tool. Yeah you should be able to play everything in all 12 keys, etc etc. But if not, just pull it up on your phone.
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Could I maybe go for an older Mac pro?
As a happy "cheesegrater" owner, I would not recommend one this late in the game. They are officially "vintage" (read: obsolete), nothing newer than Sierra is supported (although you could make it work with a 3rd-party GPU), and newer VI's and plugins will soon bring it to its knees. A trashcan may be an option, but they are still pricey for what you get.
Establish your budget, and buy the baddest Mac you can afford, desktop or laptop. I'd look at the 16"MBP as a possible replacement, not quite iMacPro or MacPro power, but it seems to be the best bang for buck right now.
Well said. Plenty of videos on youtube about buying a $500 old cheesegrater and upgrading it with new CPUs, IO and GPUs, but it's like giving a 110 year old person a heart transplant. I say this as someone who owns a 2010 MacPro 5,5 cheesgrater myself and just 2 weeks ago finally decided to ditch it for something new after hours of research.
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That's awesome Dan. An unexpected wave of emotions for you probably if you hadn't see that video in 30 years or so.
I just finished transferring all my family's old Hi8 and Digital Hi8 tapes to MPEG. I did it one by one with an Elgato video capture and it took many hours. I unearthed tons of videos of me playing as an 18/19 year old. I was floored at how 20 years later I am both a totally different musician and yet very much the same musician.
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I will quote one of my favorites, the controversial at times Dave Ramsey. He might say something like this::
1) As long as you and her are smart about it financially, then yes. That means you can either cashflow school entirely, or you have enough saved to pay for her entire education. If not, she needs to be working and maybe do 1-2 years of Community college first. She also needs to apply for a ton of scholarships and hopefully get a couple.
2) Take a father / daughter weekend with her and book some time to talk to REAL violinists and gigging musicians and ask about their journeys and what it took / what it takes. Talk to folks at your local orchestra. Maybe book a lesson with a serious heavy from a MAJOR orchestra within a hundred miles or so (not sure where you live) and talk just as much about career advice as a frank assessment of her playing.
3) Consider the possibility of a minor in something like business or marketing. Or even a MAJOR in one of those fields.
4) Whatever you do, don't saddle your or her with a mountain of debt to fund what could be a long shot dream. And don't fall in love with an 'expensive/out of state school' just to have 'the college experience' or because the campus is pretty.
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I do a whole lot of this for a living these days and here's my process:
I simultaneously program the patches on my rig while charting the tune in Finale. I will have the audio open in iTunes or dragged into Logic and build the chart measure by measure // section by section. My Finale chart has notes about the splits and the different sounds.
This process might seem like overkill / a pain in the ass, but it works so incredibly well for me that I'm not changing my approach anytime soon. On the gig I'll be using my iPad reading the chart.
But what if they don't do it like the record? Well then when they play it differently at the gig or rehearsal, I'll adjust. Will they be mad at me if I played it like the record but they don't? No, they'll be impressed and probably a little apologetic. I'll make the adjustment and we're right back to it. I don't sweat them 'well THATS not like the record!'. Doesn't it suck reading an iPad all night? No. They'll like it because it's correct and sounds great. And it's for the first gig. If I play the same gig a ton of times I will probably get the tune memorized.
Here are the serious advantages to this approach:
1) Once this is done, I can pretty much entirely clear my mental cache and forget about the song. Once I'm on the gig and the tune is called I'll bring the chart and relevant performance up on my board(s) and I can read it down like the record. I'll remember enough about the tune that the vibe will come back to me. THERE IS NO STRESSFUL CRAMMING TUNES ON THE WAY TO THE GIG OR ON BREAK. It's way less stressful in general. There's absolutely zero 'shoot wait does this tune go back to the intro after the second chorus and then go to that random C section or is that after the solo' ambiguity.
2) If I'm on some other gig 5 years from now and this tune somehow gets called, I can play it note for note at the drop of a hat. All the charts are on my iPad. All the settings are in my Montage. It happens frequently. All that upfront work has saved me numerous relearnings of songs I half learned the first time.
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Gruv Gear sells a pretty cool, *very* robust cart, rebranded as the "V-Cart Solo":
It's manufactured by Krane as the "AMG 500" cart, and is also sold by other online music vendors (SW, MF, etc.): http://www.kranecarts.com/amg500/
Since 2014 I've been using this beast with the central extender (which it doesn't seem they sell anymore). I am 8.5/10 satisfied with it. Have had to replace the wheels as they got bent over time, but my cart literally has lots of miles on it. I'd say maybe 700 load ins over that time and some over vast hotel loading dock back entrances. The plastic bits are tough but can shatter if struck just wrong - I've had to replace a few. But overall I love this cart as it folds up pretty compactly and allows for more manuverability than a Rock n Roller.
I have the huge Rock N Roller too for 3 keyboard load ins and it's great if you have an unencumbered path and don't mind the added weight.
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Lots of people on the book of faces are recommending Adobe Lightroom.
Also a lot of recs for using 'Image Capture' and just storing it all in folders yourself.
Both seem like solid solutions to me and I'll be looking into them real soon.
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