You know those conversations you have with people about being a musician or artist: questions like – “So How’s the music going?” and “Are you in a band?” Doug DeVries, Anton Delecca, Shannon Barnett, Mal Webb, Anita Hustas, John Fleming, Colin Hopkins and Justin Dwyer got talking about what follows the question – “So what [...]
May 5, 2011
Mikelangelo sings The Masquerade
Life is a masquerade my dear, would you like to come to the ball? Mikelangelo has spent many years touring the globe with his acclaimed Kabaret Noir ensemble The Black Sea Gentlemen and with Olivier award winning contemporary circus/vaudeville show La Clique. He now lives in Melbourne, where he continues to work solo and with [...]
April 29, 2011
Paul Williamson at Mario’s Cafe 25th BD
Marios Cafe marked 25 years of serving the arts community last night with an all star band in front of a large crowd at the Fitzroy Town Hall. I’ve posted this short clip of Paul Williamson blowing all the cobwebs away. Have a look at his very popular sax lesson for Digital Pill here Thanks [...]
April 12, 2011
David Bridie – The Centre Cannot Hold
David Bridie sings The Centre Cannot Hold from the Fiasco album by My Friend the Chocolate Cake. David says of this song – From the W B yeats poem..”things fall apart, the centre cannot hold”..a war reflection..pretty simple tune, just blocked piano and droning strings … listened to Robert Wyatt’s “stalingrad” off “nothing can stop [...]
March 31, 2011
Invention in Time
Kate and Adam and Ariel Valent, together known as Invention in Time, perform Fast Giraffe from their latest CD Falling by Design. Played on marimba (wooden) and vibraphone (metal) this piece is one of the duo’s more jazzy, up-beat original compositions. Visit them online on Myspace Buy the CD The album is also available on [...]
March 20, 2011
Guitar: using triads (Lucas Michailidis)
Guitarist Lucas Michailidis details his unique triadic approach to comping and improvisation. Included is a comprehensive guide to all triad inversions along with how these can be superimposed to generate a range of extended chords and alternative possibilities. Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Here’s some links to Lucas’ music [...]
March 19, 2011
Clarinet: register jumping (Cam Robbins)
Cam Robbins demonstrates a classic device for jazz improvisation on the clarinet, rhythmic register jumping. The video contains several examples and Cam demonstrates how to use the technique over one and two chord sequences. Here’s some links to Cam’s music Cam playing with Skazz and also this is a link to all his music on [...]
March 18, 2011
Sax: chromatic warmup (Anton Delecca)
Anton Delecca explains the uses of chromatic scales in jazz improvisation and as a warm up excercise for sax. In this video, Anton describes three excersices for warm up that improve tone and dexterity and are very useful to enliven passages of improvisation. This video works together with a pdf of the lesson available here [...]
March 17, 2011
Sax: stratospheric sax gliss (Dean Hilson)
Dean explains how to slide effortlessly into the altissimo register of the sax in one long continuously ascending note. Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Listen to Dean’s music here The Pearly Shells Zydeco Jump The Vanguards
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