Hi everyone,
I was trying to make a youtube video, I have all the pieces but you know what, I don't know what I'm doing. But while I was going I managed to get an ok take of epistrophy, so here goes. It slows down a little bit at some point and I'm not so sure that was intentional, but what the hell.
Epistrophy (Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) by Malcolm81
So, I'll see about a youtube video soon too, not quite there yet though.
Anyhow, take it easy,
Malcolm
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
TASCAM US-100, Google Music
Hi everybody,
I got my TASCAM US-100 in the mail today, it worked no problems out of the box and it there is no hiss (well there is some at higher volume levels, but that's probably distortion from the amp and at a certain level all amps distort when you push them, so I guess that doesn't count.) So I'm pretty happy so far.
Oh, but of course there won't be a noticeable difference in quality in the recordings that I'm making now, those are just staying in the digital realm throughout the production cycle, it's just better quality listening if you're sitting right here.
So why do you care? I don't know.
Also I was just putting in google music because I was going to use it on my phone, and I guess they have an artist page as well! Well isn't that swell, might give it a go someday.
Anyhow,
Have a good one.
I got my TASCAM US-100 in the mail today, it worked no problems out of the box and it there is no hiss (well there is some at higher volume levels, but that's probably distortion from the amp and at a certain level all amps distort when you push them, so I guess that doesn't count.) So I'm pretty happy so far.
Oh, but of course there won't be a noticeable difference in quality in the recordings that I'm making now, those are just staying in the digital realm throughout the production cycle, it's just better quality listening if you're sitting right here.
So why do you care? I don't know.
Also I was just putting in google music because I was going to use it on my phone, and I guess they have an artist page as well! Well isn't that swell, might give it a go someday.
Anyhow,
Have a good one.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Tune Up, python scripting
Hi everybody,
I recorded Miles Davis's "Tune Up"--
Tune Up (Miles Davis) by Malcolm81
Starting to develop something of a personal style I think, not really sure though. I definitely hear the Thelonious influence in everything I do, I think most modern jazz pianist tend to take after Bill Evans more.
Oh to take over the chore of starting the jack server, starting linuxsampler for the piano sound (the maestro piano .GIG file available on their website), and jack-rack for the freeverb affect, and connecting them all up, I started putting it together in a python script. I am going to do that with a munch of sounds, that will take a big chunk of the pain in the ass out of using linux for audio. Also, I ordered a TASCAM US-100, it's in the mail.
Any thoughts people? Feel free to comment, if only to tell me how bad I suck.
I recorded Miles Davis's "Tune Up"--
Tune Up (Miles Davis) by Malcolm81
Starting to develop something of a personal style I think, not really sure though. I definitely hear the Thelonious influence in everything I do, I think most modern jazz pianist tend to take after Bill Evans more.
Oh to take over the chore of starting the jack server, starting linuxsampler for the piano sound (the maestro piano .GIG file available on their website), and jack-rack for the freeverb affect, and connecting them all up, I started putting it together in a python script. I am going to do that with a munch of sounds, that will take a big chunk of the pain in the ass out of using linux for audio. Also, I ordered a TASCAM US-100, it's in the mail.
Any thoughts people? Feel free to comment, if only to tell me how bad I suck.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thelonious Monk's "Straight No Chaser", new and improved set up
Hi everybody,
I just recorded Thelonious Monk's straight no chaser, let me know what you think! Feel free to comment, e-mail, whatever makes you happy.
Straight No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) by Malcolm81
For those of you unfamiliar with this song, or Thelonious Monk (he's da man), here's a youtube video:
This particular song, "Striaght No Chaser", comes after the introduction by the MC type guy. The intro is something different, I think it's the last part of "Epistrophy", and that's what the guy who posted it on youtube says it is so that's what we're going with.
Also, this little recording session was super painless, the new interface I wrote about yesterday(and still no new cables, and I didn't mess with any of that software yet, so nothing new to review on that front) lets me just play linux sampler through my keyboard amp, so I can hear what's really going to be on the final tape, and the latency is totally acceptable--I completely acclimated to it pretty quickly, though I remember it was noticeable. I also tried Qtractor instead of Rosegarden, and it was super easy to do everything, even never having used the program to record anything before. I ran a couple takes, and then exported to an .ogg file which was ready to upload.
It doesn't have Rosegarden's musical notation editor, if I was doing something with a lot of composed parts I would definitely consider using RG again, but for recording MIDI and audio tracks, and maybe a little mixing and that sort of stuff, then Qtractor seems the easiest. Still haven't tried Ardour 3 though, that might end up being the whole package.
Anyhow, glad I have a blog to make me record stuff, otherwise I would probably just spend all my music time playing the piano. Well, actually that might be good. Hmmmm.
Ok, take it easy.
I just recorded Thelonious Monk's straight no chaser, let me know what you think! Feel free to comment, e-mail, whatever makes you happy.
Straight No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) by Malcolm81
For those of you unfamiliar with this song, or Thelonious Monk (he's da man), here's a youtube video:
This particular song, "Striaght No Chaser", comes after the introduction by the MC type guy. The intro is something different, I think it's the last part of "Epistrophy", and that's what the guy who posted it on youtube says it is so that's what we're going with.
Also, this little recording session was super painless, the new interface I wrote about yesterday(and still no new cables, and I didn't mess with any of that software yet, so nothing new to review on that front) lets me just play linux sampler through my keyboard amp, so I can hear what's really going to be on the final tape, and the latency is totally acceptable--I completely acclimated to it pretty quickly, though I remember it was noticeable. I also tried Qtractor instead of Rosegarden, and it was super easy to do everything, even never having used the program to record anything before. I ran a couple takes, and then exported to an .ogg file which was ready to upload.
It doesn't have Rosegarden's musical notation editor, if I was doing something with a lot of composed parts I would definitely consider using RG again, but for recording MIDI and audio tracks, and maybe a little mixing and that sort of stuff, then Qtractor seems the easiest. Still haven't tried Ardour 3 though, that might end up being the whole package.
Anyhow, glad I have a blog to make me record stuff, otherwise I would probably just spend all my music time playing the piano. Well, actually that might be good. Hmmmm.
Ok, take it easy.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
House Guests are Gone, Behringer UCA - 222 preliminary review
Hi everyone,
My sisters and one of my cousins were visiting last week, so blogging kind of got pushed aside. But yesterday I recieved my Behringer UCA222 interface, which is exactly the same as there UCA202 interface only with some bundled software, which I haven't tried yet. The bundled software includes a DAW that says it works with linux, so I will probably give that a try very shortly, but it is going to have some stiff competition with Ardour 3's recent beta release, which includes MIDI functionality.
Behringer UCA222 (and UCA202) preliminary review
Links:
Behringer UCA202
Behringer UCA222
Introduction and Setup
Anyhow, the Behringer UCA222 I picked up for a little over $25 off of amazon seems to be really worth it. On opensuse 11.4 (which I just upgraded since 11.3 was being phased out), you set it up by plugging it in, going to Yast->Hardware->Sound, then you highlight the device that is listed as "USB Audio CODEC", which said it was not configured. Just click edit to configure, like it says, and you can use the normal configuration to set some volume and issue some test sounds. Then afterwards, you can select it, and from the "Other" dropbox in the lower left corner, you can select the option to "Set as Primary Card". Of course different distros will work differently, since YAST is just for opensuse, but hopefully they should be just as easy.
Sound Quality
After closing the sound configuration, it should save the changes, and your computer should use the new audio interface instead of your old card whenever you do anything. And there is a noticeable improvement over my old soundcard when listening to MP3's, I am thinking that is probably due to a better headphone amp in the interface than in the internal soundcard. Additionally, it will be the new "system" entry in the QJackCTL connections windows.
There must be something I am missing in all this, however, because in a perfect world you could plug in a bunch of them and use them as different audio inputs within the context of a JACK session, but anyway this setup suffices for the amount of hardware I have, and constitutes a good basic install. The device was listed as class compliant, so it is not surprising it works with the generic driver.
In addition to basic sound quality, I think I managed to test the latency a bit by using my digital piano, into a MIDI to USB connector, into the computer, into the linuxsampler program, out into the Behringer UCA-222, and into an amp. There was some latency, but there was a noticeable improvement over my internal sound card. This is probably due to the digital to analog converter in the Behringer device being better than the one in the sound card that came with my old, cheap computer. It still felt a tad sluggish compared to the audio outs on the Yamaha P-85 (the digital piano I use), but it didn't feel nearly as weird as it does without using the interface. It is hard to quantify latency without precise instruments, but subjectively it felt a tiny bit delayed but not so much so that you'd have to consciously compensate for it. And I'm not so sure that any of that has anything to do with the device yet, it could be that it corrected nearly all the latency from the digital to analog conversion, and that the rest of the problem is somewhere else, including my bargain basement MIDI to usb converter. And for $25, with shipping, any reduction in latency makes it worth the purchase price.
Conclusion (or is it....)
Well I still have not tested audio input on the device, or the bundled software, so I am reluctant to recommend the product as anything other than a low hiss, low latency external sound card for playback. It performs these duties pretty admirably for the price, and it works pretty easily with Linux, since the generic usb drivers work just fine for it. Also the only output I have tested is the headphone jack, I can't really speak for the RCA or optical outs.
As a surprise, it came bundled with a program called energyXT (though I think it is something of a light edition,) which runs on linux. Also it has a bunch of VST instruments on a disk, which I will probably try to see if I can use via wine. The UCA-202 doesn't come with this stuff, but honestly I would have gotten that version except for the fact that I found the UCA-222 for cheaper. Ardour 3 is coming with MIDI support, and it looks very promising, and in the mean time you can use Ardour 2 in tandem with Rosegarden or Qtractor. Ardour 3 also currently has a beta release, which I will be examining shortly.
Anyhow, the majority of this product remains untested, but in all honestly just the improvements in playback would warrant the price, and even then just for the lack of hiss while playing mp3's! At this price the only reason not to get it is if you already have better equipment. For those of us putting together a bargain basement music production set-up, this thing looks very promising.
My sisters and one of my cousins were visiting last week, so blogging kind of got pushed aside. But yesterday I recieved my Behringer UCA222 interface, which is exactly the same as there UCA202 interface only with some bundled software, which I haven't tried yet. The bundled software includes a DAW that says it works with linux, so I will probably give that a try very shortly, but it is going to have some stiff competition with Ardour 3's recent beta release, which includes MIDI functionality.
Behringer UCA222 (and UCA202) preliminary review
Links:
Behringer UCA202
Behringer UCA222
Introduction and Setup
Anyhow, the Behringer UCA222 I picked up for a little over $25 off of amazon seems to be really worth it. On opensuse 11.4 (which I just upgraded since 11.3 was being phased out), you set it up by plugging it in, going to Yast->Hardware->Sound, then you highlight the device that is listed as "USB Audio CODEC", which said it was not configured. Just click edit to configure, like it says, and you can use the normal configuration to set some volume and issue some test sounds. Then afterwards, you can select it, and from the "Other" dropbox in the lower left corner, you can select the option to "Set as Primary Card". Of course different distros will work differently, since YAST is just for opensuse, but hopefully they should be just as easy.
Sound Quality
After closing the sound configuration, it should save the changes, and your computer should use the new audio interface instead of your old card whenever you do anything. And there is a noticeable improvement over my old soundcard when listening to MP3's, I am thinking that is probably due to a better headphone amp in the interface than in the internal soundcard. Additionally, it will be the new "system" entry in the QJackCTL connections windows.
There must be something I am missing in all this, however, because in a perfect world you could plug in a bunch of them and use them as different audio inputs within the context of a JACK session, but anyway this setup suffices for the amount of hardware I have, and constitutes a good basic install. The device was listed as class compliant, so it is not surprising it works with the generic driver.
In addition to basic sound quality, I think I managed to test the latency a bit by using my digital piano, into a MIDI to USB connector, into the computer, into the linuxsampler program, out into the Behringer UCA-222, and into an amp. There was some latency, but there was a noticeable improvement over my internal sound card. This is probably due to the digital to analog converter in the Behringer device being better than the one in the sound card that came with my old, cheap computer. It still felt a tad sluggish compared to the audio outs on the Yamaha P-85 (the digital piano I use), but it didn't feel nearly as weird as it does without using the interface. It is hard to quantify latency without precise instruments, but subjectively it felt a tiny bit delayed but not so much so that you'd have to consciously compensate for it. And I'm not so sure that any of that has anything to do with the device yet, it could be that it corrected nearly all the latency from the digital to analog conversion, and that the rest of the problem is somewhere else, including my bargain basement MIDI to usb converter. And for $25, with shipping, any reduction in latency makes it worth the purchase price.
Conclusion (or is it....)
Well I still have not tested audio input on the device, or the bundled software, so I am reluctant to recommend the product as anything other than a low hiss, low latency external sound card for playback. It performs these duties pretty admirably for the price, and it works pretty easily with Linux, since the generic usb drivers work just fine for it. Also the only output I have tested is the headphone jack, I can't really speak for the RCA or optical outs.
As a surprise, it came bundled with a program called energyXT (though I think it is something of a light edition,) which runs on linux. Also it has a bunch of VST instruments on a disk, which I will probably try to see if I can use via wine. The UCA-202 doesn't come with this stuff, but honestly I would have gotten that version except for the fact that I found the UCA-222 for cheaper. Ardour 3 is coming with MIDI support, and it looks very promising, and in the mean time you can use Ardour 2 in tandem with Rosegarden or Qtractor. Ardour 3 also currently has a beta release, which I will be examining shortly.
Anyhow, the majority of this product remains untested, but in all honestly just the improvements in playback would warrant the price, and even then just for the lack of hiss while playing mp3's! At this price the only reason not to get it is if you already have better equipment. For those of us putting together a bargain basement music production set-up, this thing looks very promising.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Pure Data hackery
Hi everybody,
Yes I am aware that "hackery" is not a word. But also I am aware that pure data is really fun! I have made a kick drum sound that is just filtered white noise, and something that sounds like a bell but it's randomly generated, so it sounds like a different bell every time you hit it!
Hehe. seriously though, I have to figure out how to make a synthesizer that lets you save the settings, my biggest problem right now is I am just saving the program, but the program loads with all of the controls in their default positions, so that is really not good. But there is a way to do it.
Anyhow, the difficulty of learning how to synthesize sound is mostly in the fact that I did not have a precise enough idea of how to describe sounds. And while to some extend this is not necessary to be a musician, understanding something like that can only help. Not sure I want to go anywhere near jazz fusion though, I think I prefer more agressive synthesizer sounds. Anyhow, we'll see.
I am not really following this tutorial, but it keeps coming up in my search's and I have probably read through it all by now, but a bit haphazardly. It's called Six Simple Synthesizers.
Yes I am aware that "hackery" is not a word. But also I am aware that pure data is really fun! I have made a kick drum sound that is just filtered white noise, and something that sounds like a bell but it's randomly generated, so it sounds like a different bell every time you hit it!
Hehe. seriously though, I have to figure out how to make a synthesizer that lets you save the settings, my biggest problem right now is I am just saving the program, but the program loads with all of the controls in their default positions, so that is really not good. But there is a way to do it.
Anyhow, the difficulty of learning how to synthesize sound is mostly in the fact that I did not have a precise enough idea of how to describe sounds. And while to some extend this is not necessary to be a musician, understanding something like that can only help. Not sure I want to go anywhere near jazz fusion though, I think I prefer more agressive synthesizer sounds. Anyhow, we'll see.
I am not really following this tutorial, but it keeps coming up in my search's and I have probably read through it all by now, but a bit haphazardly. It's called Six Simple Synthesizers.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Synth Bass worked out
Hi everybody,
I managed to get a synth bass line using pure data as the synthesizer, rosegarden as the sequencer, and ardour as the recorder. Ardour is actually way better at recording than audacity or rosegarden, I really do not know why I haven't used it very much. I remembered it being intimidating, but I just don't see that now--it's menus are monstrous, but just using the on screen buttons was pretty easy. Well ok, here's the recording:
Jammin over a Synth Bass by Malcolm81
As far as the music goes, it's an idea I've been having for a while, the bass line has a root note, then it drops a major third, then a major second, then another major second, and then it comes back up. Anyhow, here it is:
I managed to get a synth bass line using pure data as the synthesizer, rosegarden as the sequencer, and ardour as the recorder. Ardour is actually way better at recording than audacity or rosegarden, I really do not know why I haven't used it very much. I remembered it being intimidating, but I just don't see that now--it's menus are monstrous, but just using the on screen buttons was pretty easy. Well ok, here's the recording:
Jammin over a Synth Bass by Malcolm81
As far as the music goes, it's an idea I've been having for a while, the bass line has a root note, then it drops a major third, then a major second, then another major second, and then it comes back up. Anyhow, here it is:
The chords that work over this are D7#5 (whole tone scale), D7alt (jazz minor scale), and E7#4. It's pretty fun to play over.
Also, I ordered a Behringer UCA 212 audio interface from amazon, it is supposedly class compliant so it will hopefully work right out of the box. It is also very affordable, I will let you know how it sounds.
Ok, till next time!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Pure Data (Pd), working on Giant Steps, song ideas
Hi everybody,
I haven't posted in too long! Well my leg is better, I can play piano now, I just can't use that foot to pedal, which is fine I will just get used to using my left. I have been working on Giant Steps using rootless left hand voicings and pentatonics to help simplify the key changes. Since I got that idea from "The Jazz Piano Book" by Mark Levine, I think it would be fitting to work in a review for it sometime after I record it and stick it on the internet.
Another reason for my delay in posting is that I want to record a song, which has a bass line and maybe some basic percussions. Which I started on. But the bass line sound didn't wow me, so I've been trying to get some nicer synthesizers, and nothing would work right on my Linux box--AlsaModularSynth kept crashing, couldn't get any good sounds out of ZynSubAddFX and though it might be a fidelity problem, Ingen looked too immature to even try, and there aren't enough LV2 plugins to get by on just that anyway, just yet, I think (but if you like the bleeding edge it's maybe worth a try). But long story short I started using Pd (short for pure data), and have been quite wowed by it. It feels stable, though I have yet to stress test it. It's free, open source. The open source community is generally pretty capable of producing good programming languages (php, perl, python, pd, maybe one that doesn't start with 'p' but not too sure about that, etc.), so in this case you might, possibly, get more than you pay for with it. Also, since Pd is a graphical programming language, you more or less get a graphical interface for your program for free, though there are ways to tidy it up so you aren't looking at the program guts while you are using it.
But there is a learning curve, and it takes a while to get it to make any noise at all, unfortunately, and it also takes a while to polish up stuff so it's tidier to look at, but there is definitely a zone in there where you can just kind of let the ideas flow into the program. And that's from someone with almost no experience in synth programming, no knowledge of it that you can't get from wikipedia, and who has only been using it for 2 days!
So I do recommend pure data for Linux users, without question. It can also host LADSPA and DSSI plugins, it is extensible with a C API (which probably has wrapper for any language you'd want to use), and it's a good audio programming environment. And Linux seems to be its preferred target. So basically, your choices on Linux are either to enjoy a very good audio synthesis environment at its best, or else deal with some rather mediocre alternatives. I didn't try supercollider however, that might be better, but I am worried that the learning curve would be steeper in a text based approach for someone like me that doesn't have any experience with audio programming. I do have enough experience with audio though to know there is often a sweet spot for settings, so if you do go that route try to find a way to manipulate variables using sliders or knobs, maybe on a MIDI controller? I don't know, I guess I'm rambling a bit. Also, I don't think it supports plugins, so if you went that way you still might want to look into pd as a patchbay between supercollider and plugins.
If you've got any comments about pd, or any of its linux alternatives, or even VST alternatives (since there is a dssi-vst plugin that uses wine, though I haven't used it), or just anything at all feel free to comment. I'm kind of curious as to which would have the most instrument patch files available.
Anyhow, keep practicing,
Malcolm
I haven't posted in too long! Well my leg is better, I can play piano now, I just can't use that foot to pedal, which is fine I will just get used to using my left. I have been working on Giant Steps using rootless left hand voicings and pentatonics to help simplify the key changes. Since I got that idea from "The Jazz Piano Book" by Mark Levine, I think it would be fitting to work in a review for it sometime after I record it and stick it on the internet.
Another reason for my delay in posting is that I want to record a song, which has a bass line and maybe some basic percussions. Which I started on. But the bass line sound didn't wow me, so I've been trying to get some nicer synthesizers, and nothing would work right on my Linux box--AlsaModularSynth kept crashing, couldn't get any good sounds out of ZynSubAddFX and though it might be a fidelity problem, Ingen looked too immature to even try, and there aren't enough LV2 plugins to get by on just that anyway, just yet, I think (but if you like the bleeding edge it's maybe worth a try). But long story short I started using Pd (short for pure data), and have been quite wowed by it. It feels stable, though I have yet to stress test it. It's free, open source. The open source community is generally pretty capable of producing good programming languages (php, perl, python, pd, maybe one that doesn't start with 'p' but not too sure about that, etc.), so in this case you might, possibly, get more than you pay for with it. Also, since Pd is a graphical programming language, you more or less get a graphical interface for your program for free, though there are ways to tidy it up so you aren't looking at the program guts while you are using it.
But there is a learning curve, and it takes a while to get it to make any noise at all, unfortunately, and it also takes a while to polish up stuff so it's tidier to look at, but there is definitely a zone in there where you can just kind of let the ideas flow into the program. And that's from someone with almost no experience in synth programming, no knowledge of it that you can't get from wikipedia, and who has only been using it for 2 days!
So I do recommend pure data for Linux users, without question. It can also host LADSPA and DSSI plugins, it is extensible with a C API (which probably has wrapper for any language you'd want to use), and it's a good audio programming environment. And Linux seems to be its preferred target. So basically, your choices on Linux are either to enjoy a very good audio synthesis environment at its best, or else deal with some rather mediocre alternatives. I didn't try supercollider however, that might be better, but I am worried that the learning curve would be steeper in a text based approach for someone like me that doesn't have any experience with audio programming. I do have enough experience with audio though to know there is often a sweet spot for settings, so if you do go that route try to find a way to manipulate variables using sliders or knobs, maybe on a MIDI controller? I don't know, I guess I'm rambling a bit. Also, I don't think it supports plugins, so if you went that way you still might want to look into pd as a patchbay between supercollider and plugins.
If you've got any comments about pd, or any of its linux alternatives, or even VST alternatives (since there is a dssi-vst plugin that uses wine, though I haven't used it), or just anything at all feel free to comment. I'm kind of curious as to which would have the most instrument patch files available.
Anyhow, keep practicing,
Malcolm
Monday, November 7, 2011
B is for Blue
Hi everybody,
Ok, I'm practicing up my D major pentatonic, since that's the V of G, which is one of the keys in Giant Steps, which if you've been reading this blog you know that tune is my Everest. And you can play the major pentatonic of the V chord over the I, the II, and the V, so you don't have to worry about avoid notes, so if I can wail on it then I would be that much closer to playing Giant Steps well.
Also, I posted this on Newgrounds, you can get there via http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/454899 . People get to vote on it, so we'll see whether they like it or whether they have no taste. hehe.
ok, without further ado....
B is for Blue by Malcolm81
Ok, I'm practicing up my D major pentatonic, since that's the V of G, which is one of the keys in Giant Steps, which if you've been reading this blog you know that tune is my Everest. And you can play the major pentatonic of the V chord over the I, the II, and the V, so you don't have to worry about avoid notes, so if I can wail on it then I would be that much closer to playing Giant Steps well.
Also, I posted this on Newgrounds, you can get there via http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/454899 . People get to vote on it, so we'll see whether they like it or whether they have no taste. hehe.
ok, without further ado....
B is for Blue by Malcolm81
Friday, November 4, 2011
Leg's Better, Blue Trane
Hi everybody,
I've been playing my piano a little bit lately, I had the staples in my leg taken out yesterday and I am all in all feeling a bit better. I recorded Blue Trane --
Blue Trane (John Coltrane) by Malcolm81
On a side note, playing the blues in Eb is damn near cheating--the Eb minor pentatonic is just the black keys! Hehe, what fun. I could break this song down a bit if anyone is interested, but otherwise it can just stand for itself, there's not really that much to it.
Also, the sound quality should be a bit better than my recent efforts, I made a midi recording of it, and then used a sampler program. I think the results are better than just the on board sample from my Yamaha P-85, which I really like and will probably review at some point.
Anyhow,
Malcolm
I've been playing my piano a little bit lately, I had the staples in my leg taken out yesterday and I am all in all feeling a bit better. I recorded Blue Trane --
Blue Trane (John Coltrane) by Malcolm81
On a side note, playing the blues in Eb is damn near cheating--the Eb minor pentatonic is just the black keys! Hehe, what fun. I could break this song down a bit if anyone is interested, but otherwise it can just stand for itself, there's not really that much to it.
Also, the sound quality should be a bit better than my recent efforts, I made a midi recording of it, and then used a sampler program. I think the results are better than just the on board sample from my Yamaha P-85, which I really like and will probably review at some point.
Anyhow,
Malcolm
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