December 2010
15 posts
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Do you have a boner for Joan from Mad Men?
I think I have more of a boner for Saffron from Firefly.
Ask me anything
Lelia Broussard: January Residency at Rockwood... →
leliabroussard:
Hello! Hey! Hi!
Hope all of you had a magnificent holiday. Magnificent. I was in rainy Los Angeles over Christmas and I pretty much just relaxed so hard the whole time. It was great.
So I just got back to New York yesterday afternoon and in exactly one week I’ll be starting Januray residency…
Go to this!!!!!!!!!!!
andrewfutral:
One time in college Dan Romer was thinking up band names for the band we were in (eventually Fire Flies) and he said “what about: Don We Now Our Gay Apparel” and i was like “yes! I love it!” and he was like “oh … I was kidding. Andrew … that is a terrible band name”.
It’s actually a pretty good band. I’m a fucking genius.
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How important do you think theory and ear training...
Well, this is what the website says:
“Isn’t it strange that so few have trained their ears to name exact tones and chords — by EAR? Imagine: What if Michelangelo could not see the colors in his paintings? Would that have impacted his art? It’s the same for any musician. How can you be fully creative in music if you can’t even tell a B-flat from an F-sharp — by...
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what's the main difference between compression and...
Not much, they’re both totally DTF.
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.what changed in the remastered versions of...
There are two main differences. 1) Conversion and noise reduction, and 2) Compensation for new processing trends
1) When CDs first came out, the analog to digital converters that were being used to master analog tapes to CD form were horrible. That’s why there was an immediate backlash of “VINYL SOUNDS BETTER THAN CDSSSSSS!!!!” right after CDs replaced cassetes. They were...
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how do you go about buying a midi cable to hook up...
So there are generally two ways to hook up a midi keyboard to a laptop. A MIDI cable, or a USB cable. At this point, I feel like USB is a much better option. If you’re gonna use a MIDI input on your keyboard, you need some sort of MIDI interface or converter cable to use it with your laptop, which you can get for pretty cheap. For example: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Uno/ If...
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Do you know that scratchy sound the guitar/strings...
First I should say it might be a really great thing in your life to learn to love string squeak. It’s on TONS of records. A lot of the time when people record music, especially early on in their careers, they start over analyzing because they want the recording to be PERfect. I personally love how string squeak sounds, especially with some reverb or delay.
However, here are some ways to...
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When you begin making songs do you usually use the...
I find that I come up with more random unique stuff on guitar, because of the limitations of the intervals between strings. It makes me use voicings that I wouldn’t normally think of.
Piano is a lot more methodical to me, and usually more useful in terms of low end. You can put any note you want in the bass, which can make it so that an inverted chord can act as a new chord. When you...
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