This is an inspiring story whether you are a sight and/or memory music player!
Ron-
(by By Belen Casillas [email protected])
Dedicating two to three hours to daily practice, seven months later Ms. Allen earned 14th chair in the district band. She proved to hundreds of spectators that being visually impaired was not a disability to becoming a great musician…
Continue reading here ->
https://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-Yes/184391/visual-impairment-cant-stop-musician-from-making-music#.Uht9Mj_WmCk
Wow, as of today New Orleans is going through a strange noise ordinance change, which will make a marked notation on her music heritage…
Ron-
(By Richard A. Webster, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)
A new report commissioned by the New Orleans City Council on how best to revise the city’s noise ordinance was challenged as too lenient by several residents who spoke Monday at a meeting of the council’s Housing and Human Needs Committee. On the other side, members of the local music community urged the council to tread lightly and respect the city’s cultural heritage…
More on this noise compensation here…>
https://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/new_report_on_noise_ordinance.html
Tempo continues to come-up in discussions amongst band members. I’ve noticed that when I play live the average listener wont notice a slight tempo change, as long as you’re all still following each other. Musicians might notice, but if you try to force the other player back to tempo it tends to hurt the song rather than help it. I stumbled across a couple of comments on a Bass forum thread and was appreciative of their notations (no music pun intended)…
Ron-
(via an interesting discussion on the TalkBass forum between, SevenYearsDown and Jack Clark)
I was a “rock slab” guy for years who transitioned to upright about 5 years ago. I play in an old time string band now. Someone already described what beat you should be countering on so I wont go into that…
read their two comments on this thread here ->
https://www.talkbass.com/forum/f179/tips-holding-tempo-992386/#postcount14704771
Besides your announcements on FaceBook, your Blog, YouTube, Press Releases, email alerts to your existing fans, you might find this story on the 10 great places to promote your music online a decent guideline to assist with your resolve to ‘get your songs heard’ on the Internet.
Ron
(via Wix Blog)
It’s no earth-shattering news that the internet has basically changed the music industry for good. Technologies like file sharing, social media and eCommerce are giving artists more opportunities to expose their music to larger audiences and increase their fan base…
10 good sites to promote your music, here:
https://www.wix.com/blog/2013/07/promote-your-music/
My realization is that many bands on tour use a back-drop of amplifiers, which not all of them are used. As a way to look bigger than life on stage, this appears to be a subjective matter as to what stage entertainment is all about. My take… no harm, no foul.
You may recall a few weeks ago that Black Veil Brides were called out for using “fake amps” (i.e. staging or dummy cabinets) during Warped Tour. Bands have been using dummy cabs for decades now, so regardless of your thoughts on Black Veil Brides, the entire controversy was extremely dumb. Unfortunately, not everybody has gotten the memo, as a Texas radio station has now singled out Machine Head for doing the same thing during the Rockstar Metal Mayhem Festival… (Lambgoat)
… continue reading > https://lambgoat.com/blog/363/Machine-Head-latest-band-to-be-stupidly-called-out-for-using-fake-amps
OK… as we discussed in our recent posts (basic music theory, guitar power chords, et.al.) it was suggested that we visit the subject matter of… Music Transposition.
To transpose music simply means… to change the pitch of each note without changing the relationships between the notes. Now, relationship between notes is one thing, another topic we’ll touch on is, how it actually changes the ‘feel’ of the original composition. But, first let’s take a look at the basic fundamentals. Continue reading How to Transpose Music