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The Blues Xplorers – Coconut Blues
On Thursday nights my wife packs up her Bass Clarinet and heads out to the Duncan community band rehearsal. Shortly after her departure various characters show up with old tube amplifiers, well worn instruments and cold beer. For the next 3 hours the neighborhood is filled with the sounds of the Blues Xplorers as we... Continue Reading →
Note Book – Exploring the Magic of Tritones Part One – Wading into the Shallow End
Definition a tritone is a musical interval with 3 whole tones or 6 semitones between the notes. Tritones are the only symmetrical intervals. For example C to F# above is a tri tone (Aug 4th ) and so is F# to C above it. F# to C below it is also a tri tone(dim 5th).... Continue Reading →
Note Book – Musical Modes
Most musicians are familiar with modes, but a little review never hurts ! This article explains and reviews modes very well and includes some great song references. In addition it is oriented towards electronic music and uses MID as well as standard music notion for the examples. Music theory basics: how to understand musical modes... Continue Reading →
Note Book – Building TRS to Midi Cables
To keep desktop MIDI devices small many manufactures have switch from standard 5 pin MIDI cables to TRS3.5mm Mini Jacks. Unfortunately there are two different wiring schemes ! This article sorts it all out.
Wouter Hisschemöller – Midi Euclidean Pattern Generator
Amazing visual software to generate Euclidean Patterns for rhythms or notes via Midi. Euclidean Pattern Generator Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
Music Note Book Table of Contents
Music Theory and Tips Beats per Minute (BPM) Time Intervals Blues Chord Substitutions – Free PDF Download Chart of Common Scales Chord Progressions Chord Progressions Lo-Fi Improvising Over Major 7th Chords Tritone Intervals - Part One Synthesizers and MIDI Behringer Neutron Semi Modular Synth Patch Resource List Free Online Synths with MIDI Input Free On-Line Synthesizer Lessons MIDI Data Router for Windows MIDI –... Continue Reading →
Wikipedia List of Unexplained Sounds
I am always on the hunt for interesting audio samples to include in compositions, these sounds are not that clear , but they have a good story ! Unexplained Sounds Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com
A Time Before the Blues Xplorers – Blue37 Review – Can’t Get Away From the Blues
I Can't Get Away From the Blues - featuring Bubbas Bentless More great tracks from the Blues Xplorers
Behringer Neutron Synth Patch Resource List
The Neutron is a semi modular analog synthesizer, so you can cook up some great tones, but there is no way to save presets... except by manually filling out a template. I am just learning how to get sounds out of this little monster and have found studying other peoples patch templates to be very... Continue Reading →
