As much as I love my tube amps they just aren’t practical to record with at all hours of the day and night, so I’m super glad to have Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig to get my ideas down. I particularly like the “Country” presets for clean parts, “Dual Vintage” or “Massive Wall of Rock” for crunchy rhythms and “Eric John Son in Manhatten” or “God’s Love” for leads.
Found this cool drumset notation key on DrummerTalk.org. Super useful!
I’ve been using this app “Capo” as part of my “Hearing and Writing” transcription assignments. A bit pricy but works really well for what I need. In addition to being able to slow things down while maintaining pitch and spectrogram analysis, I particularly like being able to navigate forwards and backwards in a song using key commands so that I can really zero in on a passage without having to look at the screen.
Found out about this fantastic open source music notation app through one of Adam Neely’s videos. So far I’m loving how easy and intuitive it is to use. It’s really well thought out and implemented. Did I mention that it’s free?! Wow. Big thanks to the MuseScore community for making this available to everyone.
Watched a great lecture on the relationships between rhythm, pitch and color given by Adam Neely at Abelton’s Loop 2017 conference. It gets “out there” at times, but he pulls it all together as he demonstrates how everything is essentially rhythm.
Particularly liked this “The Color of Sound” chart from Nicolas Melendez and Clint Goss that Adam referenced. It shows the direct correlations of pitch and light frequencies. It would be cool to use this when putting together a concert’s light show!
Was trying to decide which song to notate for my next “Hearing & Writing” assignment and remembered how much I love the bass line of Chic’s classic hit “Good Times”. First I wrote out the bass part and programmed it into Logic. I then added some drums, guitar and piano. Afterwards I notated all the parts on one sheet of paper and put together this video.
So glad that I found this channel on YouTube, it has so much useful information on it. Thoughtful reviews on all sorts of pedals/amps/guitars, comparisons of pedals by type (overdrives, distortions, fuzzes, wah-wahs, reverbs, delays, tremolos, vibes, etc.), thorough explanations on pedal related topics (e.g. pedal order, gain stacking, using buffers, power requirements, etc.), interviews with great players, pretty much anything you can think of related to electric guitar is on this channel. Also, they seem to be a couple of genuinely nice “blokes”.
This is another “someday” book that sat on the shelf for many years that I decided to make time for. Been going through it, slowly, over the past year or so. Each exercise runs through all keys and usually has at least 20 rhythmic variations to do. Usually I will run through one position on the guitar for each rhythm pattern. Takes quite a while to complete just one of these exercises. Right now, I’m about two-thirds of the way through and happy that I made the effort.
Been working my way through this monster of a book over the past few months. Currently on page 105 of Volume 3 while revisiting/reviewing Volumes 1 & 2 on a daily basis. Don’t see myself as a great jazzer by any means, but it has helped my reading for sure.
I’ve been using an ear training app called EarMaster for a few months now and am starting to notice a difference in my ability to identify intervals, chord qualities, rhythms and chord progressions as well as sight sing some pitches. It’s pretty comprehensive in it’s scope and has a lot of lesson material in it.
