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Mykhailo

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    Jazz - Dissecting Bill Evans when you got the time.

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    'Everybody Digs...' is one of my all time favs. The interesting thing about analyzing Evans is that he"s that bridge between the older bebop where guys were soloing thinking in terms of chords, and the 'new' (i.e. 50"s-60"s) modal way of thinking. This analysis here on this particular passage makes me think the mind was still thinking in terms of chords.

     

    I always had trouble in jazz school analyzing bop tunes (i.e. Parker, Rollins) in terms of chord-scale theory...obviously on a deliberately modal tune (So What, etc.) then I dug, but on an older bebop tune, I still preferred to think that these guys were just thinking about chords and establishing tonality with their lines, not 'chord-scales.' Just my opinion, YMMV. The beauty of theory is that there is no 'wrong' way to look at a piece of music..

    James Poyser and friends - Amazing Grace

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Thanks Eric for sharing this amazing video...and a very interesting discussion. I just tried playing 'amazing grace' in all 12 keys. It"s interesting, obviously in some keys you can let loose, start throwing in subs, licks, etc, and in other keys, just laying it down with some soul and sticking to the melody is a challenge. I now have an 'amazing grace etude' to throw into my practice routine!

     

    Mind blowing performances in this clip, and truly inspiring hearing/seeing these incredible players just eat up the tough keys for breakfast!

    question re: video setup

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    The audio quality on the internal mic is not great....if you go to the 'post your music' section, I have a video up of me recorded through the internal mics...I am going to post one in a few seconds of me using the audio interface (still stock yamaha DP sound) but the quality is much higher. One sec...

    question re: video setup

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Like many of us during this crazy time, I"ve been posting daily videos to my IG. I sort of had to bail from my condo in the city in a very quick time...I grabbed what I could and have been holed up in a house in the country. For for the last two weeks my videos have been the stock piano in an old yamaha DP into the internal mic on my ten year old macbook pro..(yikes!)

     

    I finally managed to get my hands on an audio interface, (focusrite), which means I can start using the steinway in Logic X. My new plan for videos is as follows:

     

    1. Record video of myself using photobooth (mac)

    2. Simultaneously record audio of steinway in logic

    3. import video

    4. normalize audio

    5. bounce movie file from logic.

     

    If anyone can think of a better way to get a video with this setup, let me know! i.e. having to hit record 'twice' is a bit of a drag...i.e. once in photobooth and once in logic.

     

    OT: thanks for letting me part of this incredible community! I really enjoyed getting to be part of a recording again. i.e. Quarrantunes. Special shout out to brother Dave Bryce for putting that together. :like:

    What�s "your" board?

    in The Keyboard Corner

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    Nice! Always wanted one of those, but I didn"t really have a valid need for one, having several acoustics already and plenty of keyboards.

     

    In Blue Rodeo we have a rock drummer, pedal steel, sometimes 3 guitars, and a bass through an SVT. Even with all of the amps in isolation cabinets, our FOH engineer and I had trouble getting my acoustic accordion to sit right. Didin"t matter how nice the mics were, acoustic instruments can only be pushed so far over a dense noise floor...Then someone hipped me to the roland, and just like that all of my problems went away. FOH engineer can just ride the fader up/down like he would any line level keys. Godsend. It"s also nice to be able to dial up hundreds of different reed sets, concertinas, they even have a corodovox set!

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