Forward Motion:The Secret Formula to Jazz Bebop Solo Improvisation
“WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??!!” One of the most asked questions among any jazz students, seeing how jazz masters effortlessly improvise beautiful jazzy solo lines even through complicated chord changes. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDfdIf7Yi8M] Notice how Bud Powell’s lines melodically weave through the chord changes of Anthropology with ease. You can even hear the changes listening to the solo…
Kompoz: Collaborate your Music Creations
Finally, I took some time off to participate in the online music collaboration. Kompoz let you create musical projects, and ask other musicians to collaborate. I stumbled upon a jazzy track mainly on guitars. I downloaded the file and add in a track of acoustic piano. It is fun to see a completed song collaborated…
Feel the Online Synth Power of Tony-b Machine
I stumbled upon this web-based synthesizer – Tony-b Machine. It is playable using your QWERTY keyboard. It even allows you to record your sequence , save it and play it back later. Very funny toy!
Around the Music World in One Day
Spend a whole day surfing around for music related blogs, here are some cool stuffs I found. Enjoy.. 😀 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…
Search for Free MP3 Download at WuZam
WuZAM is an internet music search engine that makes mp3 downloads available for free. Search any song or artist you wish to hear and WuZAM’s powerful engine will discover it for you. WuZAM is the best source of free music downloads online.
WuZam even provide the top 10 list of the most searched mp3 in the last 24 hours. I saw Fergie, Beatles, Jens Lekman and Bob Dylan in the list. I tried searching for “KCLau”, “Rewsnat”, or “Pianologist”, but zero result. I think Pianologist pages are not indexed by this search engine. Is it really that powerful then?
Music,Piano and Jazz Blogs #1
Links to some nice articles related to music, piano and jazz
Music & Piano lessons carnival – August 5, 2007
Welcome to the August 5, 2007 edition of music & piano lessons carnival.