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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)

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

Sax: long notes (Dean Hilson)

Saturday, May 29, 2010

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Dean looks at long notes from several different angles – the growl, vibrato, dynamics and ear training. Listen to Dean’s music here The Pearly Shells Zydeco Jump The Vanguards

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 [...]

Dean Hilson’s video just turned over 50,000 hits

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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One of the first videos to go up on Digital Pill just passed the 50,000 hit mark. If you are a sax player go and check it out and see what the fuss is about. Dean Hilson’s stratospheric sax gliss

Sax: chromatic warmup (Anton Delecca)

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

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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 [...]

Pianist Colin Hopkins lyrically ruminates on the Cosmic Joke…

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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I’m experimenting with Vimeo. If anyone has problems with it or comments please send me an email Catch pianist Colin Hopkins at home where he uses all his improvisatory skills in an attempt to revive the wooden man – his only remaining audience member (besides the dog) – and finds the job a little more [...]