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I’ve been excited about the relatively new workflow emphasizing effects automation. Here are three videos that resulted:
I’ve also gotten great responses and questions from all kinds of people regarding the Spacebar setup, so I went ahead and made a few videos going into the technical detail of what I’m doing. So if you feel like [...]
For last Saturday’s Spacebar performance at Incense & Peppermints’ Grand Opening Party, I published a dedicated facebook page:
…go ahead and like it already!
To demonstrate how to incorporate “Chordal Drumming” patterns into soloing, I video-taped a drum solo that combines a lot of the elements of this method. You can view a transcription, including a version that points out the patterns, HERE.
My method book “Chordal Drumming: Drum Set Coordination in the 21st Century” is now published! It’s been a few years in the making. I just received my first official copy, and it looks fantastic.
It can be purchased here:
(from the Preface of my book)
A New Coordination
Sometimes, control and coordination on the drum set are thought of as independence. But independence is a misnomer when it comes to coordination, almost the opposite is true. Rather than making our limbs independent from each other, we train them to move together or in relation to each [...]
This is simple math, but worth sharing because of its usefulness. If you ever have to have a controller behave in the opposite way of how it does by default, you can achieve this with a very simple equation:
On the rules-tab of the translator in question create an “expression” rule. Using “pp” as the value-variable [...]
This little trick takes care of a limitation with Ableton Live’s value-scaling option for midi take-over mode.
Here’s the problem in a nutshell: When “value-scaling” is selected in Live’s midi preferences, single-value control change messages will not always affect the targeted parameter (depending on its current state) or at least not to the desired setting. For [...]
