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Someone needs to make a time machine so we can go back in time and stop Cher from recording Believe.

The lineup includes Robert Sput Searight, MonoNeon, and the recently passed Casey Benjamin.

That one hurts for me I remember the Duane and Greg back to their band Hourglass and when the Allman Brother came out I was an instant fan. Then after Duane passed became equally big fan of Dickey Betts. Thanks for all your music you shared with us Dickey RIP.

Been putting together a small recording setup with my laptop and Ableton and think I decided on getting a Akai MPE Key 37 as my other piece of the puzzle. Other item for my wishlist is a good general purpose condenser mic not too expensive and thinking of the Austrian Audio OC16.

Warning no keyboard content, it shouldn't matter but in case it might. GREAT IMO interview with Joe Gore talking about recording with on of my heros Tom Waits and how he gets great musicians to sound amateur and works fast in the studio some very cool insight. The starting about the 28 minute mark in the video they take an off ramp into harmony, Joe who have a classical background gets into how he view the tonality and relating it to 14 century music. I started watching this interview and thought I'd just check out a bit and leave, but it held me spellbound till the end. Part of what got me is over my years playing two the funkiest writers I got to play with later on it came out they had Phd in classical music. Made me remember my young days and music school they would tell us.... If you're auditioning for Rock, Funk, or Pop gigs never mention your music education, it will immediately be two strikes against you. People think if you studied music you can't Rock or get Funky don't say anything until after you have the gig and been working.

Those ads have been running for months on FB offers different brand keyboard and sometimes Gibson guitars. I figure it was some sort of scam probably delays and skyhigh shipping costs, not to mention who know who your giving your private info to. Like others said. if it sounds too good to be true it probably is a scam.

Why wait for your new board if you have ProTools it comes with a synth and there are lots of soft synths some free you can download on your computer and start experimenting with. Like playing any other instrument you got get the fundamentals then you can go to any other synth and apply it.

I just typed "synthesizer lessons for beginners" into a search engine and one of first links was video below on basic components and sound they create. I'm a very visual learner so like the how a lot of soft synths show the wave and how it changes when you do X so I have a visual to try to the sounds. Serum synth he uses in the tutorial is popular soft synth, but there a many out there and a lot of soft synths that are clones of vintage synths. Using the presets on synths I think is another approach you have known sound now start tweaking knobs and see what happens and develop a feel for the component that make up sounds. Nice thing with preset is you can screw things up as much as you want and get back to normal and start messing around gain. Synths are an instrument like you guitar your going to have to spend time learn to play it and with a synth that is changing the basic components of a sound so got get your "Seat time" in with headphone (so you don't drive other nuts) and experiment until you got the fundamentals under your fingers.

Taking a trip down memory lane the first record I obsessed over, Green Onions by Booker T. and the MG's. I was just a little kid but this record got to me, no matter where I was if there was a jukebox I had to play Green Onions a couple times. I would just sit, ignoring everything else and just get into the groove. Stax would be the first record label I would knew of and loved the Soul records they put out.

From the website..... "All the drum loops have been realized by Mauro Battisti using a master keyboard and drum libraries" He also has "Study Tools" on his site including bass and piano transcriptions. https://www.projazzlab.com/study-tools/#drumgenius-transcriptions

Long time fan of Drum Genius better feel than a drum machine I use it for practice. The one I recently downloaded is called Koala its a sampler and beat maker that a lot of people are talking about these days.

Put a string on them like Ben Wa Balls and you can hang them off your stand. You might make some new friends at gigs <grin>

I really love the vocals on this arrangement

Legally sampling is a minefield, but most artists using samples are getting clearance for them and most not artist are approving the clearance. Where that can and does get ugly there are no laws about amount of payment for using a cleared sample the artist can ask for as much as they want. One famous Hip Hop tune used a handful of samples and one of the shortest samples they used was the bass pattern off Lou Reeds Walk in the Wild side. At first Reed refused to clear the sample then came back and said I will clear it for 100% of the royalty. The group was behind schedule and tune they thought was going to just be a filler track so they agreed. The tunes ended up their biggest hit and they have made zero from it. Now others if they don't get a clearance and they feel the sample is key to the record will rerecord the music. The engineers that do this are scary good with amazing ears. Kanye's engineer has had to do it a few times for Kayne tunes. He will rerecord a sample right down to slightly out of tune guitar strings and synths. If a rerecording no clearance is needed. Now what I've done and is to take a drum sample that grooves like crazy then most DAW's today have audio to MIDI convertors and converted and groovy drum track to MIDI and just use whatever drum sounds I want. So I wonder if that will be considered a rerecording? Yes, the legalities of ownership with modern tools is going to interest how judges rule on them.