I couldn't forget the day I first saw this video a few years back, showing michel camilo and his band firing away on  this song "from within", in the ground breaking latin music documentary video Calle 54.  It was a jaw dropping, feet tapping experience for me, and I am sure that goes for many musicians out there also. Here's the video again in case any of you missed it in the previous post.  [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXT07AnkYRE] The energetic El Negro on drums is nothing short of amazing, Anthony Jackson is definitely the best man to sit ...

We are giving away limited edition of KCLau’s solo album. KCLAU罗觥荃: Kite Shepherd风筝的牧人舒服的新时代音乐。让浪漫来主宰享受生活,就如享受他的音乐. Soothing new age. Clean vocal accompanied by the most soothing music arrangement. KCLAU 罗觥荃: Simple Melody 简单的旋律Simple melody with jazzy arrangement and piano chops. Vocal done in Chinese language. You can't hardly find such kind of music in chinese music scene. A bonus track of 4 music videos included in the CD. How to get the free CD In order to get a free CD from Pianologist, all you have to do is to write a new post by reviewing Pianologist ...

Thanks to Collaborative Piano Blog for pointing me to this Freelance Calculator. As a freelance musician, the calculator actually help to estimate what is the hourly rate I should charge my client. After the calculation, this is the result: Am I charging too low sometimes? What's your hourly rate?   Related Articles: Top Five Most Embarrasing Moments in Piano Performance Top Five Funny Questions in Piano PlayingSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Much Should Pianist Charge?", url: "http://pianologist.com/piano-news/how-much-should-pianist-charge/" });

It is amazing to see this entertainer juggling on a piano. Moreover, he actually juggles nice sounding music pieces. Some of the notes are even played 3rd apart simultaneously. Take a look at this video. Related Articles: Ghost Playing the PianoSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Inverted Juggling on a Piano", url: "http://pianologist.com/piano-videos/inverted-juggling-on-a-piano/" });

iQ is the latest innovation from PianoDisc. The center of the iQ system is PianoDisc's patented 88-note SilentDrive™ playback system. SilentDrive's electronics are virtually invisible in the piano yet they control all aspects of a performance from key to pedal response. iQ can be operated by your choice of devices. You can use an MP3 player, play music from CDs and DVDs, or download PianoDisc music to iTunes and play the piano through your laptop or desktop. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7e-hVB6xBU] More about Pianodisc iQ at MacWorld, Product Reviews Net, and Pianodisc. Related Articles: Grand Pianist – ...

I personally read 5-10 other music related blogs. There aren't many out there. Here are some links to great article published recently. If you are interested to start a music related blog, refer this informative post on 5 Easy Steps to Host Your Own Wordpress Blog Jeff wrote an article about taking listener on a journey with good song writing.He also listed the necessary tools songwriter needs. It is always better to picture your song journey before writing it. Don from Blogging Muses participated in the Problogger group writing projects with Top ...

Those who learn piano probably had played Fur Elise in their lesson. Now we know that Rewsnat from Pianologist doesn't know how to play that simple song. In order to cope with his embarrassment, we are digging all the possible ways to play Fur Elise. At the end, we never realize that there are actually so many version of Fur Elise. Look at these: Play Fur Elise the crazy way: (only the first 30 seconds) – master uses hands to play, not the fingers :) [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQaK7NHY-4] Play Fur Elise on two electric ...

Writing a great love song is almost every song writer’s aim. What define a great love song? Best-selling hits - Great love songs should be a best-selling hit, earning lots of money :) Killer Hook and catchy melody – it hooks the first-time-audience and result in wanting to hear more of it Original Element – it won’t be a greater hit if you repeat what had been written by other song-writers. Copy-cat is a copy-cat! Great story touches listeners Well-crafted lyrics – simple, clear and easily understood words with great story behind Well produced ...

I was doing mixing lately on my upcoming album. So I actually did some research on mixing a song. Sometimes when I hear a sound so thin that I really want to fatten it up (sometimes referred as ‘phat’ sound). It was taught in mixing using the visual imaging method. The secret is quite simple: use a delay shorter than 30 milliseconds. Why 30 milliseconds (0.03 second)? Scientific research shows that delay shorter than 30 milliseconds can’t be perceived by the human hearing. There are several tricks you can ‘phatten’ ...

Doug McKenzie is a retired teacher in a jazz studies course at a tertiary college in Geelong Australia. He records video on a cheap web camera and mp3 file MP3 file on his computer and as a midi file on his Yamaha P-250 piano all at the same time so all are synchronized. On August 02, 2006 he posted his first Youtube video “Easy living”. You can watch this video here. Since then, this video has been view more than 19,000 times and rated 4 stars and above. I personally enjoy every ...