Category Archives: Music
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Are you familiar with Audioscrobbler? It’s a little tool that works with your computer’s media player (iTunes, Winamp, etc) and uploads your listening habits to a central website. That way, you can marvel at the number of times you’ve listened … Continue reading
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Finally… bluesjamtracks.com
I’ve been occasionally alluding to a “new project” on here for a while now, so it’s a great relief to come clean at last… bluesjamtracks.com In an ideal scenario, the site would have gone live last March… that’s when we … Continue reading
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Burble with Key Changes
This should have appeared sooner, but an air-conditioning failure at 34sp‘s datacentre put a temporary spanner in the works. Anyway… In the continued absence of Exciting New Musical Concepts (not that I’ve tried particularly hard) I decided to spend more … Continue reading
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Slow Gilmourish Jam
Lacking any concrete musical ideas recently, I decided to try and resurrect my atrophied improvisation abilities. A recurrent trait in my playing is that, after periods of less-than-diligent practice, I tend to “burble”. The technique is there, but the mental … Continue reading
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More for that wall…
Remember I was moaning about Universal Music and their blinkered, litigious greed? Well, how about we move up a level through the music industry hierarchy to that noble umbrella organisation, the Recording Industry Association of America… RIAA Petitions Judges to … Continue reading
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Come the revolution, that wall is going to be very crowded…
I give you Doug Morris, CEO of Universal Music. For a CEO of a major producer of electronic media, Doug doesn’t seem to be too comfortable with the modern world. First of all, he knows exactly what we’re all doing … Continue reading
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The notWigan that nearly wasn’t
So, last weekend marked the sixth annual uk.music.guitar national get-together. I’ve been to four of the six and find myself developing an almost complacent expectation that the event will be exciting, amusing, interesting and inspiring in equal measure. A number … Continue reading
New music – “Dreams of the Old Country”
The most recent task over at the Guitar Collective involved composing a piece around a set melody. Now, while it would have been easy to make assumptions about the most appropriate context for this melody (it was written by our … Continue reading
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In praise of talented friends
As you know, I always like to support people who Do Their Stuff independently of the corporate mainstream. And when those people are my friends, hey, they even get free advertising here! Jon Boyes is a classical and flamenco guitarist … Continue reading
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Lossless gains for iTunes?
From Gizmodo… Apple Lossless on the Way to iTunes? Having whined at length about the service offered by Apple’s iTunes Music Store, I certainly hope so. Tracks encoded at 128kbps are fine for quick’n’easy download purposes, but pretty pathetic when … Continue reading
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