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At this time a lot of people are teaching that normal wouldn't be so good time to try and get a lesson with someone your are a big fan of. Nice thing about te internet it's easy to email or message pretty much anyone. I think only one person I ever emailed didn't get back to me. I've been taking lessons with Dave Frank for awhile and like how that's going.

Another side of Brad Mehldau with Mark Guiliana on drums excellent album [video:youtube]

Piano Weekly AKA Greg Spero has been doing a daily early morning stream since the virus stay at home and starting to do more interviews and not just playing piano. Todays was interesting he had a handful of publicists talking about how some of their clients are dealing and the monetization model. Also a new website trying to help musicians promote and stream and make a couple bucks doing it. So if interested here's the link: [video:youtube]

Ed and Scott Berry are doing livestream on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday around Noon PST on Ed's own YouTube. They are Roland focused and really cool because the viewers are helping each other a lot in the chat as well as what Ed and Scott provide. Also Ed has been pulling in other Roland FE's and users from to hear a lot of different points of view. https://www.youtube.com/user/diazeo

People will throw in the term Pro just to hopefully keep a lot of beginner and or inexperienced players from calling. Just a way to help filter out some people from contacting you and wasting your time having to say call me again in ten years. But then you left with the ones that do contact you and the variation in what they call experience. From my music and in computer world part of the new hire interview process the best indicator of their qualification is get them to tell you war stories from gigs or in computer world problem solving. What they consider good or bad experiences and how they dealt with them really reveals their experience level and ability to think on their feet.

Aw memories of the old days where we'd just flip the tape over and bounce the track to another to get the reverse track. Or flip over and just record the reverb returns to another track so the reverb would suck into the hit. Or one nightmare where the count off to a tune got cut off by someone, so we flipped the tape over and had the drummer click his sticks and recorded that past the start so we had now had a count in for doing overdubs. The fun part was figuring out if source was track X and Y when tape is flipped over what tracks would they be now. Aw fun in the Jurassic age of recording.

Also around the time of the Electric Flag, Supper Session, was the first Blood Sweat & Tears album. Another band I just happened into at the Whiskey one night. A lot of great music came from the late 60's.

There was this club in Hollywood when I was young and I'd go every Friday night no matter who was playing. I the band was great I'd be back Saturday night. I remember going one Friday in 1968 and this band starts and at beat one they were GREAT it was the Electric Flag. Got all my friends to come with me on Saturday night and we were all instantly Electric Flag fans. We all got the album and then found out the band was on the soundtrack to the movie The Trip and get bought that too. Electric Flag is one of those old albums I still dig when I hear it.

From better times the Kennedy Center Honors Herbie Hancock with all star band. Especially about the 4:25 mark and Snoop joins in and get the house bouncin'. [video:youtube]

To be safe you need to work out a cue in case the neighbors get to close. If that weird kid down the block gets too close give the cue and instantly go into Giant Steps that will back up anyone getting too close. Also maybe your could hire the Checkout Line Monitor from the grocery store to make sure your audience is spread out the appropriately and wearing masks. It would look like those middle school dances where everyone is spread out lining the walls and only two are brave enough to dance.

They've had #1 hits since they started this is just there first on iTunes it no big deal.

A lot of sites are losing ad revenues and some hosting services are raising rate because of the increased bandwidth with so many people surfing the net so websites are getting more expensive. Maybe they will sell the archive to someone and it will be for sale in PDF form, but massaging old magazines into PDF is a lot of work too. It will probably reappear again in some form or another.

My setup is a pair of studio monitors and they have more range than a instrument or powered PA speaker. If I go out to play then I'll get a pair of 10" powered PA speakers. To that post about a 8" speaker..... As for a single 8" speaker in a cabinet I can only say as a Jazz guitarist a single 8" didn't have enough low end even in a high end ported cabinet. I then got a 2x8" cabinet and having two 8" speakers in single cab' made a world of difference and low end and volume. But for keyboard a pair of 10" would be my choice. 10" speakers are very punchy, easier to hear on stage, and the really cut thru in a band situation.

Benchmarks don't mean crap they can be written to favor anything especially when pitting RISC vs CISC. What matters is real world work situations and DAW and music apps really push a CPU and OS to it's limits.

Not enough horsepower and iOS is just a lightweight OS so going to take awhile before iPad can handle DAWs and all the IO necessary.

Where I'm living suddenly has a lot people on street corners selling face masks. Some look homemade and other the disposable medical kind, I'm assuming these are ones that fell off the back of a truck. So keep your eye on the back of delivery trucks. Janek Gwizdala interviewed Adam Neely and they got in to how many are suddenly doing YouTubes thinking they will be making some money quickly. Basically they got into all the training in video, researching on how to make videos that draw people in, the to build up enough subscribers the it takes for YouTube to start promoting your channel, then how many subscribers you need for the monetization to be enough to start being a piece of your income. Adam Neely was saying people don't realize I've been doing this over ten years and just now hit one million subscribers. Then what I found of interest is how different making a video for YouTube is than for Instagram. On Instagram you need to grad the person's attention in two to three seconds or they are on to another post. So some reality of making money making videos and the work involved.

Just got the new album by Kathleen Grace and Larry Goldings yesterday since I contributed to the crowdfunding for this album. Larry is always finds interesting ways to support a song.

I don't watch much over the air TV, but watched most of this show. I enjoyed the rawness of many of the performances and a lot of my favorite tunes so made for an good show for me. It also shows no matter what happens to the world Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will be the last two left to turn out the lights.

Piano the sound of loneliness. Or one piano noodling is cheap and nondescript enough to be royalty free if we used a known recording we'd still be negotiating licensing.

You've gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely But you know you only used to get juiced in it And nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street And now you're gonna have to get used to it Since I modified it and turned it in as my homework in senior English I might as well use it again. I got away with murder in Senior English in school, I was terrible in English and had to do something to pass it. We got lucky and our teacher had to suddenly leave for the semester and we got a fresh out of college guy to teach. I was so into Dylan I just wrote all my stuff in a Dylan style including no periods or other grammar and etc that Dylan picked up from poet CC ??? The student teacher told me he was so impressed with my writing he took it to his old professor to show him he had a young genius as a student. I kinda felt bad for what I was pulling on that young teacher, but figured if I pass senior English that was priority one.

Nostalgic this morning for some good old rock with Bee Bumble and the Stingers. Even though the video of people doing the Lindy Hop still not the same time period it fits. FWIW.. Leon Russell sometimes would go and gig billed as Bee Bumble and the Stingers to make some money. [video:youtube]

You're talking about products with very high R&D and production costs that selling in the grad scheme of things a small market. So customers to spread the R&D and manufacturing costs over. Which is another reason products in the league don't constantly change, the QA costs are huge and with a hardware product going back to fix things is not cheap and time consuming. I used to work in the software industry and the OP comments sound like the BS that went on. In the beginning of software world engineering department set the schedule for when thing would be released based on knowledge of the R&D time, QA testing, and manufacturing lead times (back went physical manuals and disc had to be made). Thing would good then and new products were really solid upon release. Then the release schedules got shifted over to the Marketing department because they wanted releases that lined up with peak sales periods. Now Markets did understand the repercussions of a buggy release so they tried to work with engineering. Then things went down the crapper and the bean counters (Accounting department) got control of the release schedules and that is disaster and they still control schedules. They didn't give a dam what shape a product was in they only cared about when they needed the (bogus) numbers needed to be in the books so try and control the value of the stock. You can really tell who controls the release schedule by how buggy a new product is upon release. If it's a mess the finance department is probably controlling the schedule.

Such a great musician from Bop through to Free playing. Thank you Lee for all your music!

I don't know what software they are using but some are streaming to YT, FB, and the others all at the same time. I know keyboard player Greg Spero AKA Weekly Piano is doing every morning around 8am PST. Appears it took him a week or so to workout the issues but working and like today has people at multiple locations being in his stream as well. I'm sure if you ask he'll say what software he's using.

Remembering Lee Konitz and hearing Lee with Dan Tepfer was always free improv at its best. Thank you Lee for all you gave us over the decades. RIP [video:youtube]