Check out the London Drum Show on September 4th and 5th at London’s Olympia:
We all need to work on our time keeping. Here is a cool lesson from Joe Crabtree with some exercises you can do even without a kit. Always good.
Here is an interesting article about not avoiding those challenging things we should be doing (like, er, posting on one’s blog…).
“Do you ever dodge your creative work? Say, your practice time arrives, and you race off to do some chore. It might be a chore that you detest, but now it calls to you. Then, instead of refining your music, you start cleaning the house or doing whatever”
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Here is an interesting interview with Steve Albini.
Mr Albini is famous for recording In Utero for Nirvana and annoying the band’s management and label for making the record the way the band wanted it instead of how the accountants wanted it.
Here’s a Pixies track recorded by Steve Albini to give you a taste of his studio chops.
An interesting article on The Times website suggest that music artists are seeing growth in revenues even as record industry revenues plummet.
As a struggling musician, this is the kind of news I find encouraging. It seems to me that if the business model for selling music copied on to a physical medium (wax, vinyl, CD etc.) is no longer relevant, let it die. Recorded music can not be protected from copying without introducing draconian controls over data sharing which will impact the flow of all ones and zeros on the web. If you are not convinced, check out Darth Mandelson’s proposals.
What would be wrong with a world where musicians can earn a reasonable living doing all the stuff most of us working musos do anyway? Losing the mega rich stars is not a loss. Bye Bye Coldplay and U2, I won’t lament your passing.
Here is an interesting article that prolific music industry pundit Bob Lefsetz linked in one of his emails.
Check out this clip from the mighty Bob Gatzen. I recommend his DVD if you want to really learn something about drum tuning.
Meanwhile, check out the rest of his videos on Youtube.
