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Tuesday June 12, 2018. 02:49 PM
Rai Thistlethwayte is one tough keyboardist. He's sold hundreds of thousands of albums with the Australian band Thirsty Merc, toured the world shredding synths with artists like KNOWER and Oz Noy, and he continues to make noise as a solo artist. Get to know our TALENT SCOUT...
Monday June 11, 2018. 11:21 PM
Ipswich, U.K. (June 11, 2018) — Celestion, one of the world’s leading suppliers of professional loudspeakers and compression drivers for sound reinforcement applications, announces the availability of Celestion driver-specific cabinet designs for DIY builders. Celestion...
Have you ever wondered what the first synthesizer record was? When it was made? What it was like? Well, this is the story of the first time a Moog synthesizer was used in an otherwise conventional West Coast record date. It was my first contact with the throbbing heart of...
Trying to reduce George Duke’s playing to five examples is basically impossible. He has done so much in such a wide variety of styles, that what follows will only scratch the surface of his musical mastery. That being said, I’ve grouped George’s playing into different...
Sound Design Workshop: Beyond Arpeggios, Part 2Last month, we explored arpeggiators as tools for creating unusual waveforms and timbres. This month, we’ll look at ways to use them to generate sound effects that would be difficult to achieve using traditional MIDI...
You are assigned to learn and perform a new work for solo piano. The performance will take place in about two-and-a-half months, at that Prestigious Summer Festival you have been aching to play in for a long time, and you are delighted. The composer of the new work is flying ...
Jason Rebello is a British jazz pianist who has played some of the choicest gigs in popular music over the last few decades. Chosen by Sting in 1998 to take over the keys after the passing of Kenny Kirkland (no pressure there!), Jason held the chair for six years. From there ...
REMAGEN, GERMANY: Synthesizer developer Waldorf Music is proud to announce a full production launch and general availability of Kyra — the world’s first fully FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) powered synthesizer featuring 128 voices (regardless of settings and...
Thursday June 7, 2018. 08:05 PM
'This is just like the Yamaha DX7 but cheaper,' the music store salesman told my parents back in 1986. (Truth be told, it wasn't anything like a DX7, save for the fact that it had keys and it was a synthesizer). Nevertheless, I was soon the proud owner of my very first...
Berlin, Germany (June 7, 2018) - Berlin’s creative powerhouse zenAud.io has released zenAud.io ALK2 Solo, a lite edition of their sequenced live-looping DAW ALK2 for Mac. Aimed squarely at the gigging solo performer, ALK2 Solo provides the essential features of ALK2 in an...
Kingston, Ontario, Canada – At home with his Audient iD22 audio interface and trusty ASP008 8-channel mic preamplifier, location recordist Matt Rogalsky makes the most of his relatively portable kit to record new, three-piece band, Deux Trois in what he called...
So many musicians I know spend their careers standing at the top of the diving board, waiting to jump in. I wish I could wrap them all up in my arms and jump in with them. Songwriters, here are some good ways to get yourself into the pool.When I was a very little kid my...
Growing up as a pianist in the Hartford, Connecticut area, it was impossible not to know about the local jazz phenom Brad Mehldau. Even at a young age, Brad had already mastered both the jazz and classical idioms, and was well on his way to becoming a bona fide star. Brad...
We're choosing Swedish singer/songwriter Albin Lee Meldau's track 'Same Boat' from his new album About You as our THURSDAY TRACK PICK this week.We're choosing Swedish singer/songwriter Albin Lee Meldau's track 'Same Boat' from his new album About You as our THURSDAY TRACK...
Music and career tips from a proAdjustments to a piano’s action or “regulation” are often presented to us as a lengthy and costly process. Interestingly, there are a few adjustments that both “go out” more quickly and have the greatest impact on the feel of a...
Gregg Rolie’s keyboard playing is a blueprint for how to play keyboards in a rock band. As a founding member of the bands Santana and Journey, Rolie has done just about everything. This month, let’s explore some key elements of Rolie’s playing. Gregg Rolie’s keyboard ...
Wednesday June 6, 2018. 10:07 PM
Music and career tips from a proIf someone came up to me and said, “You only have five steps to make Donald Fagen’s Rhodes ready for his recording session tonight,” my initial reaction would be, “That’s hard,” because so many variables determine how a piano...
If you aspire to be a well-rounded musician ready for any gig that comes your way, one of the things you’ll have to get together is sight-reading. Take these tips from David Cook, who has toured with Taylor Swift, Natasha Bedingfield, and other renowned artists.If you...
Being known as the most successful U.K. jazz artist in history is quite a responsibility, but Jamie Cullum wears it well. Here are a few examples to get some of Jamie’s techniques into your own playing.Being known as the most successful U.K. jazz artist in history is quite ...
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