Digital Pill – working musicians talk about their lives

Leo gives a sax lesson on how to keep the various registers of the sax in tune. Using the interval of the 6th and some handy tips he picked up from studying J. S. Bach’s cello suites. Click > HERE < to download a pdf of the lesson Listen to Leo’s music here Leo’s website [...]

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Tim Nikolsky demonstrates how to do Walking Basslines on Guitar. Tim has been performing with the vocalist Margot Leighton for the past 13 years and has developed a unique style of playing in this musical duo incorporating the whole rhythm section on guitar. The technique of walking bass on guitar is also a great way [...]

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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

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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)

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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

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Anita Hustas performs and talks briefly about two graphic scores ‘Stream’ and ‘Underwater’ from her ‘Water’ collection composed in 2008. In trying to find creative approaches to composing and making music, and integrating visual art and music performance, Anita has been creating graphic scores for improvisors since 2003. In this video Anita plays Double Bass [...]

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Tony Hicks demonstrates the 24 note scale within one octave and plays a free improvisation demonstrating the use of this extended tonality. Visit Tony on these links His bio on the Australian Art Orchestra website Tony’s albums on iTunes Tony also appears on tenor sax in this Digital Pill post

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Joe Dolce uses several examples to make the distinction between poetry and lyrics and demonstrates how this understanding is important for songwriting. ” One of the country’s premier songwriters.” RHYTHMS MAGAZINE ” . . . the Ohio-born Dolce is one hell of a bluesman. . . . [the] guitar work is deceptively complex, weaving in [...]

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Peter Knight demonstrates improvised laptop processing of trumpet. Peter is currently researching this area of improvisation as part of a DMA at Queensland Conservatorium. Features live sampling and processing of micro sound worlds created using the trumpet – stretched and squashed with Ableton Live. Listen to Peter’s music here Peter’s solo trumpet project on myspace [...]

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