[MUSICIAN] Radiohead’s In Rainbows: A Look at Anti-Marketing in the Music Industry @ Dosh DoshRadiohead is going to prove that musicians don't need big record label to do a successful marketing. Their new album is selling for whatever you feel comfortable paying. You can pay nothing for the download.[MUSICIAN] Herbie Hancock On Apple, Breakdancing, and Buddhism on Listening PostInterview of Herbie Hancock, one of the greatest pianist on planet earth.Radiohead is too smart!Herbie Hancock interviewed!Steve Vai got fooled!  Why? Watch the video below[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s3Sk8o3xaU]Steve Vai is one of the greatest guitarist.  I hope you ...

Spend a whole day surfing around for music related blogs, here are some cool stuffs I found. Enjoy.. :D Nice Jazz Photos - tm_marcello is a photographer who have been posting a lot of nice photos of jazz artists. Here's a few samples. There are many more in his archives. Transposing song from one key to another - The Headless Piano Teacher talked about transposing music in this article. Sonny's Improvisation Tips - SonnysPiano gave a few tips for students starting out improvising Pursuing Musical Profession: A Wrong Choice - TheGoodMusician talks about pursuing ...

Jazz piano solo improvisation tips from transcription and video of Round Midnight by 7notemode Do you feel like killing yourself?? Are you at the brink of going crazy?? If your answer is "yes", Good!! This is a great time to learn to play the piano like Thelonious Monk.. :)   [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMmeNsmQaFw] Normal listeners would see this as a guy going crazy on the piano, while musicians call this the Monk dissonance. Before we unravel some of the secrets behind his technique, here is a video of 7notemode playing a solo piano version of Round Midnight [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkabuXMGLA] Here's the ...

by KCLau Pianologist Although I seldom play bass using the keyboard on stage, but I program the bass track for almost every song I arrange. In this post, we are going to discuss how to play or program great sounding bass track by using the MIDI keyboard. Here are some tricks compiled through days of research and my own experience. Play with both hands Do you play the bass track using right hand or our left hand? I used to play it with my left hand because ergonomically, the lower register is on ...

Transcription of Yardbird Suite Solo Improvisation by Miles Davis and Lucky Thompson, with sample mp3 and brief analysis.   Miles Davis, one of the most innovative Jazz musician in history. Here is the short clip of Miles Davis and Lucky Thompson solo over this jazz standard Yardbird Suite. Yardbird-Suite-Miles-Davis-solo-mp3  And here's the transcription in PDF format, Yardbird-Suite-Chord-and-Solo-Transcription-2 Quote from Genius Guide to Jazz, "Davis understood that the space between the notes was sometimes just as important as the notes themselves. But he also understood that too much space between the notes, and people would think that the ...