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Lisa Young – konnakol rhythms

Friday, August 20, 2010

Vocalist Lisa Young sings and explains examples of konnakol, the spoken rhythms of South Indian music. download the pdf of the Sa Ri Ga rhythms here Visit Lisa’s website And here’s a link to her album Grace (awarded best Australian Jazz Vocal album of the year)

Digital Pill goes LIVE

Friday, August 6, 2010

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Above is the new animated logo for the digitalpill.tv LIVE streaming show that begins regular broadcasts this Monday from the Dog Theatre (6.30pm Mon Aug 9th Melbourne time). For people in other timezones, check out the countdown clock in the sidebar (on the right), it lets you know exactly when the next live show goes [...]

Percussion: soloing (Ray Pereira)

Saturday, July 17, 2010

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Ray discusses using a combination of tone and slap sounds on the djembe to produce rolls of various lengths and their use in contemporary percussion soloing. More information about Ray’s classes, projects and recording can be found at raypereira.com

Fine Blue Thread – Quiet Music Festival

Monday, June 28, 2010

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Grounded in the traditions of Indian, Javanese and Western classical music Fine Blue Thread are Ria Soemardjo – Voice, Sam Evans – Tabla, Helen Mountfort – Cello. Here they are playing at the Quiet Music Festival Vist them online Their website Buy their CD

Anthony Schulz accordion improvisation

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

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Anthony Schulz plays an improvisation on the stradella and free bass accordion Visit Anthony on myspace here

So what do you do for a crust ?

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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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 [...]

Shannon Barnett plays All and Sun-Dried

Friday, April 16, 2010

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Trombonist Shannon Barnett performs “All and Sun-Dried”, a piece inspired by her hatred for the existence of sun-dried tomatoes. The piece is a kind of etude for trombone that makes use of large intervals and odd-meter phrasing. Visit her online myspace.com/shantrom And hear her on these albums The Vampires: “Chellowdene” and “South Coasting” Andrea Keller [...]

Guitar: rhythmic variation (Doug DeVries) pt 2

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Guitar: rhythmic variation (Doug DeVries) pt 2

In part 2 of a series Doug DeVries shares some ideas on how to add rhythmic variation to a piece of music. In this lesson he demonstrates how to increase interest by varying the rhythm. Visit Doug on these links His website dougdevries.com Doug’s albums on iTunes

Guitar: voice leading (Doug DeVries) pt 1

Monday, January 18, 2010

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Guitar: voice leading (Doug DeVries) pt 1

Doug DeVries shares some ideas on how to add harmonic and rhythmic variation to a piece of music. In this lesson he uses one of his own compositions – Astoria – as an example of voice leading in harmony as well as examples of how to increase interest by varying the rhythm. Visit Doug on [...]