It’s through this process of exploration and discovery that we get a better understanding of how harmony works. Comments 70 Comments Leave Comment Adam Powell says October 9, 2016 at 2:47 pm Will you ever make these lessons available on midi format? Log in to Reply Hayden says Oct...
If you think that your intonation is pretty good, working with MIDI, with pitch bend at 0 and using no vibrato, may come as a shock. Notes will easily 'jostle' around a semitone if they are not 100% accurate, so it may take a while to build up your confidence. Intonation is more ...
As Patricia notes, “the first time I had wandered about with a bruise on my mouth, it did something rather permanent to my soul, or whatever I had like a soul. After that, I just jested about falling against a table in the dark.” Later in the novel, a male acquaintance of ...
Tenor saxophonist, based in New York, second album (as far as I can tell), quartet includes bassist Sam Minaie and two-thirds of Dawn of Midi: pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi. The sax doesn't blow me away, but the rhythm section is far from ordinary. Two tracks add ...
And to complicate it further, the melodic minor scale can be different when descending. I guess I'm going to have to sit in front of my MIDI keyboard and play the different scales over a set of chords in order to hear how they sound (or "feel") together. In the meantime, any tips...
I’m more dismayed by the fact that all backing “instrumentation” is computer-generated, which Basile cheekily describes as “MIDI technology to create colorful textures against ‘live’ jazz guitar improvisations.” In other words, Frankenmusic backing. Doesn’t matter how it’s defined; the ...