Welcome to the tutorial. For those of you that are collab-curious, I’m going to share with you some tips that I’ve found useful in the numerous remote (virtual some call them) recording sessions that I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in. The screen grabs seen here are from a project that I recently completed using Ableton Live (You can hear the finished tracks at the end of the post) but these tips are applicable to all recording software environments. I have covered a set of five excellent online services for internet collaboration, but I’ll get right down to the process in thisContinue readingWorkflow Tutorial for the Collaborative Internet Musician
A Secret Musical Code Revealed via JS Bach
There is a secret built into Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor. I issued a friendly challenge to listeners to spot the famous Jazz standard nestled among the busy polyphonic dialog in this Bach piece. Even an offering of 2000 internet cool points has not unearthed the answer, so I’ll give it to you now: Listen at 1:52 …now listen to the video below at 2:25. Nerdy but cool.
I’ve been working in the studio so much these days that I’m beginning to see spots.
Guess that comes with the territory when your navigating lines that Bach laid out in logical beautiful detail. I learned the Little Fugue in G minor years ago as a self-imposed study in how Bach ‘improvised’ through chord changes. I always want to improvise melodies that possess that clear, eloquent almost story-telling manner about them like Bach. When you play these pieces, you’re afforded an opportunity to almost enter Bach’s mind for a short time. …and that’s where we’ve been hangin’ over here.
