23 February 2022
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What do you do when you need a song on a particular topic for a particular audience and you can’t find one in the time available? My solution, when I needed a song for the toddlers group at church on … Continue reading
21 February 2022
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Following on from yesterday’s post, this video asks an interesting question: I do sometimes find myself singing Sumer Is Icumen In (13th century), which does also get a mention in the video – note the ‘probably’ after Greensleeves. With a … Continue reading
20 February 2022
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I wonder if the majority of songs never even make into public? Even with ones released on major labels by world-famous bands there will be tunes that rarely or never make it to their live sets and don’t get covered … Continue reading
16 February 2022
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A while ago, I signed up with bass education site Scott’s Bass Lessons. There’s a wealth of learning material on there, which tends to go further and have more structure than random videos picked off the internet. It also has … Continue reading
6 February 2022
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Musical notation is meant to be a clear and efficient way of communicating to a performing musician what they ought to play. Most of the time, that’s fine but every now and then you come across something that is ambiguous. … Continue reading
5 February 2022
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Fifteen or so years ago, Line6 released a bass that caught my interest. It was in their Variax line and claimed to be able to produce the sounds of a couple of dozen different basses, including workhorses like the Fender … Continue reading
1 February 2022
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A number of times, including the last couple of years, I’ve signed up for the RPM (record production month) challenge and produced an album of brand new material from inception to completion in the (short!) month of February. This year, … Continue reading
31 January 2022
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Here’s that song I recorded quickly last week, published today after making its debut in yesterday’s online service:
30 January 2022
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I went ahead with my debut live performance on keys at church this morning. I have to say that it’s quite nice just rocking up without lugging a load of gear, sitting down for the whole service and then only … Continue reading
26 January 2022
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I may make my debut playing keys in public this Sunday morning. Our sound engineer is suffering with a heavy cold at the moment so I could end up flying the desk instead but, if not, I might sit at … Continue reading