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Interview with Recording Legend Steve Albini

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. http://www.thedailyswarm.com/swarm/steve-albini-producing-2000-albums-almost-being-put-out-business-geffen-after-recording-nirvana-jonas-brothers-and-disregarding-listening-audience-i/

Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?

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… Read More »Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing?

A Couple of Video Lessons from the Vic Firth site

Brian Ferguson, a contributor to the Billy Ward Stalker Society made these great videos about fills. http://www.vicfirth.com/education/drumset/ferguson/ferguson_10MQ.html http://www.vicfirth.com/education/drumset/ferguson/ferguson_11MQ.html

Spotify playlist fun

If you have access to the very cool Spotify service you can use this link to access my Easy Drumming Songs playlist. It is here Please bear in mind that by easy, I mean slow. These would be songs at a nice comfortable tempo to play along to if you are just getting started. When you get better you may well discover that slow isn’t easy. Have fun.

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