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Category Archives: music

Record Deals: RIP

18-Oct-07

So, One Week Later, Is The Album Dead Yet? — The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics
This is very cool. If this proves to be true it’ll terrify the record companies as their cover has been blown on what they’ve been getting away with for years.
Last week, Radiohead released their latest album, In Rainbows, for […]

fresh start

29-Aug-07

Here we go again… I’ve put months into a getting a band off the ground. The lack of organization has been pretty bad and it’s been much harder than it needed to be. This is the 4th band in 3 years that I’ve put a lot of my very limited spare time into that’s fallen […]

Rules for Ensemble Playing

30-Aug-05

Everyone should play the same piece.
Stop at every repeat sign, and discuss in detail whether to take the repeat. The audience will love this a lot!
If you play a wrong note, give a nasty look to one of your partners.
Keep your fingering chart handy. You can always catch up with the others.
Carefully tune your instrument […]

Steve Vai on Vinnie Colaiuta

01-Apr-05

Love this snippet, found on Vinnie’s site here:
http://www.vinniecolaiuta.com/articles/drummagazine03.aspx
‘ “I was just enamored with Vinnie. Back in the Frank days, his whole approach, when I heard Vinnie play, his phrasing - it satisfied something in my heart. It was easy to get certain rhythmic gratification from straight up-and-down-type players. Playing grooves, alternate grooves here and there. […]