Keith Jarret: Musician with an Attitude

”I don’t speak Italian, but I hope that somebody who speaks English tell those assholes to shut off those fucking cameras. Until you don’t do it, music won’t be at its best and you will have spent your money for nothing. I’m speaking to you, you, you, and you, and also you up there. If I see one single flash during the concert, I and Gary and Jack reserve to ourselves the right to stop playing and leave this goddamn city. It’s your privilege to be here, not mine”.

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Round Midnight Advance Reharmonization Technique

In depth analysis of reharmonization techniques on Round Midnight, with video, and transcription.

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Useful Tool to Find Frequency of Pitches

Click on the image and you will be directed to a website which shows you a spread of piano keys. This tool is not that impressive nor cool. But it is an easy reference page for you to find which octave the notes are in, what is the name of a specific note, what is the MIDI code for it, and also the real frequency of the pitch. If you use Cakewalk Sonar or other DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), you will be able to find all these information. However, this is still a very useful tool if you just need a fast reference.

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ChordStudio Desktop Music Arranger | Mouse Click Arrangement

ChordStudio is a free site that let you create a full length music arrangement with just a few clicks using your computer mouse.

1.click chords from the chord chart
2. select the instruments: guitar, drums, piano, organ etc
3. hit play and your arrangement will play repetitively. This probably just take a few seconds to accomplish
4. tempo is adjustable
5. different verse, bridge and chorus can be arrange using the Page Order field.

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Melodic Range of Pop Songwriting | Make sure We Can Sing!

Songwriting is one of the reason that keep me working as a musician. It engages so much creative moments and satisfaction when you complete something that’s highly enjoyable. After you have set up the perfect environment for creative songwriting session, and applied one of the 10 different approaches to write an effective melody, now let’s…

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Train your Ear Online at GOOD-EAR.com

Undeniably, a pair of good listening ears is the most needed skill of a great musician. Good listening means you are able to hear deep into the music, hear through the notes, grab the relation between pitches, or even identify the absolute pitch. Here is a great site that let you train your ear online.…

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Piano Squall Game & Anime Music | CD Review

Michael Gluck, better known by his stage name Piano Squall released his first album on piano music. He is classically trained concert pianist and performs regularly for charity since 2003. Read the review of his album. Some facts about this album GAME: 17 songs from various games and anime 1 original work range from lively…

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Piano for Preschoolers Wins Top Honors as Best Toy for 2007 by Dr.Toy

Piano for Preschoolers is a program that allows parents to teach their children between the age of 3-8 to play music pieces on real keyboards. It is guided by colour codes and useful even for musically illiterate parents. It was named Dr. Toy’s Best Products Resource Program Summer 2007. The prestigious award proves that Piano…

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Funny Quotes From Jazz Musicians

Where could one find the funniest quotes?? Jazz musicians of course!! As E.M Forster put it, “Musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are.”. In other words, musicians are the craziest people:D. Why Jazz musicians you may ask. Well, in which other art form can…

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