Graham English
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Music hacks are slick solutions to common musical problems. Like using a hack to create a brand new melody instantly when you’re up against a deadline. Or tricks to make your improvised solos stand out from note one and make the listener feel involved like they’re having a conversation with you. Things like that.
A couple choruses of Nostalgia in Times Square by Charles Mingus.
This is an iPod recording of a funky Bb7alt swing groove at 130bpm on the Hammond.
This is an iPod recording in the key of Gmin (Dorian) at 100bpm. Hammond and wah wah clav start it out.
This is an iPod recording of Prince’s How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore. I recorded this just over a year ago for my girlfriend.
I wrote this for a friend who needed some chill background funk behind some spoken word stuff. I called it “Peace and Love” because of the spoken content. I created it on June 12, 2005 in an hour or so.
You knew it had to happen sooner or later. For every up, there is a down; for every light, there is a shadow; ying has its yang, Jesus has his Satan, Reagan had his Gorbachev, the Red Sox have their Yankees, Spider-Man has his Dr. Octopus, Bill Russell had his Wilt Chamberlain, and great lyricists [...]
I voted against this lousy bill for two reasons: because net neutrality and internet build-out are crucial to building a more modern and fair Information Society, and both were pushed aside by the Republicans.
Link: Stopping the Big Giveaway
I am The Flash
Fast, athletic and flirtatious.
Interesting outcome. Check the shirt:
My results:
The Flash: 95%
Superman: 75%
Green Lantern: 75%
Iron Man: 70%
Hulk: 65%
Supergirl: 62%
Wonder Woman: 62%
Spider-Man: 60%
Catwoman: 55%
Robin: 52%
Batman: 45%
But what’s with the Superheroine results?! Is it because I revealed that I like to wear tights?
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz
The mind is like a muscle: it swells with exercise. Gould’s and Kozorovitskiy’s work reminds us not only how easy it is to hurt a brain, but how little it takes for that brain to heal. Give a primate just a few extra playthings, and its neurons are capable of escaping the downward cycle of [...]
Dave Matthews Band “offsetting” its tour pollution:
NEW YORK (Reuters) – American rockers the Dave Matthews Band and its fans have been bad for the environment since 1991, and now the group is making amends.
The amendment failed by a tie vote of 11-11. All ten Democratic committee members voted in favor with Senator Snowe. The eleven remaining Republican members voted against the amendment.
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Two Canadian mathematicians from the University of Moncton in New Brunswick, have created an entirely new kind of string instrument that exploits a kind of mathematics owing more to Pythagoras’s theorem for triangles than to anything he ever thought about music.
Math is integral to music and its instruments. read more.
Amateur Musicians, Athletes Seek Tips With Videos On YouTube.com…:
When Eric Nguyen, a 20-year-old student in College Station, Texas, needed some help with a Chopin etude he was learning, he didn’t turn to his piano teacher. Instead, he went on YouTube.com, the amateur-video sharing site, and posted a video of himself playing.
Within 10 minutes, three people [...]
This is what happened to me today. I was listening to a piece of music and the first chord was the same as another song I’ve listened to many times. The voicing, the instrument, everything was the same. I had never made that connection before. To be sure I was remembering the other song correctly, [...]
The AP is reporting that Al Gore got the science of climate change correct in his ‘Inconvenient Truth’. Included are quotations from a number of apparently prominent climate change scientists. This is an interesting counter point to the story we saw on this a couple weeks ago.
From Treehugger:
Fox News host David Asman asked his guests [...]
Intermezzo in A major by Johannes Brahms, Op. 118, No. 2. I’m still reading the whole way through. I would like to memorize it and just play it.
Baby I’m a Star by Prince. I took my new Blue Snowball out to the garage today to try it out. I scratched up some vocal tracks for about an hour. It’s all first and second take stuff. It turned out pretty good but I need more time to get a feel for it. That’s part of the reason I’m covering this song. To get time on the mic. 140bpm in the key of D.
Charlie Chaplin Optical Illusion
Loading ...Turkish-born record producer Arif Mardin, who helped shape hit recordings by the Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson and Bette Midler among many others, has died at age 74, associates said.
about grahamI'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
Why Americans Don't Like Jazz http://dyske.com/paper/778 18 hrs ago
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