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Submitted by BML on Fri | 08.20.2010 | 01:01

This Venn Diagram beautifully illustrates the components of an often misunderstood creature: the Keytar playing Platypus.

While BML does not have any Keytar teachers, we do have a whole bunch of Piano Teachers, Keyboard Teachers, Electric Guitar Teachers and Acoustic Guitar Teachers ... none of which are beavers, ducks or platypus.

Justin Williams featured on No Treble

Submitted by BML on Thu | 08.12.2010 | 01:01

Justin Williams was featured in a Player Spotlight on No Treble: The Site for Bass Players.

Check it out here.

Justin specializes in lots of different areas of study including: electric, upright and synth bass, ear training, hip hop, drum and bass, recording, composition, music theory, and music business topics such as the art of the audition, gig etiquette and preparedness, career planning, and endorsements.

Learn more about Justin here or set up a lesson with him at the BML Store.

NerdPop // Utilizing The Tools Of Our Electronic Time

Submitted by chris.kuklis on Mon | 07.19.2010 | 06:16

Every day we're surrounded by tools & gadgets & pop culture refuse.  (Think of all the things you own or interact with that beep & click & blink & sing.)  I think an important avenue of music creation at the moment involves exploring these alternate instruments & sound creators.  This video is an excellent example.

With a little bit o' creative/videographical know-how & a couple bags of "novelty" instruments, these quirky Englishmen have made something that's funny, entertaining & musically legitimate.

Of note: Unlike many in their field, Mr. Domino & his cohort use totally stock instruments with no effects, hardware/software hacks, mods, circuit bends etc.

Regardless of your instrument or chosen path, remember that there will always be new ways to be creative.

...:::ck:::...

Auto-Synchronization of Metronomes

Submitted by bryan.noll on Wed | 06.23.2010 | 11:40

Found this on SynthGear:

As each metronome comes to a stop & reverses direction at the top of its swing, it transfers energy to the platform. This energy transfers through the platform to each of the other metronomes.

The energy transferred to the platform from each metronome starts out of sync, but the waveforms of the energy interfere with each other, and at the location of each metronome you end up with negative or positive waveforms which in turn have an effect on the interference pattern. This keeps going until there is a balance – this balance is only achieved when all of the metronomes are in sync. The interference pattern is now a standing wave, which keeps the metronomes locked in phase.

When the whole contraption is put on the table, the table absorbs all the energy, reducing the interference patterns. You can see this phenomenon in many different types of oscillating systems, which can cause some major problems, especially with traffic on bridges and wind around buildings. You could also do the same thing with ticking watches, or even watches, which will eventually tick in time if places on a thin sheet of cardboard help up something like the cans in this video.

Of course if you’re a synth fan, you know that waves like these have harmonics, and the synchronization will also work with multiples of the fundamental frequency. You could presumably set some metronomes to half-speed to double-speed, and they would all tick in time, with different rhythms.

Bob Lanzetti with Snarky Puppy (video)

Submitted by BML on Mon | 04.12.2010 | 02:23

This video features BML Teacher Bob Lanzetti on guitar - he starts off the tune playing slide on the white Strat - check it out. Awesome.

Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity (TED)

Submitted by BML on Fri | 04.02.2010 | 02:02

In this TED talk, Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic, talks about a violin lesson he once gave to a brilliant, schizophrenic musician -- and what he learned. Called back onstage later, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.

Feelin' Like - Elan Vytal Feat. Unconscious Logic

Submitted by Christian Davis on Mon | 02.15.2010 | 09:32

This is a track I did for Unconscious Logic Summer '08.
Video produced by Ben AHR Harrison!

A Poet's Advice - e.e. cummings

Submitted by Aya Nishina on Mon | 12.21.2009 | 02:02

A real human is somebody who feels and who expresses his or her feelings. This may sound easy. It isn't.

A lot of people think or believe or know what they feel---but that's thinking or believing or knowing: not feeling. And being real is feeling---not just knowing or believing or thinking.

Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but it's very difficult to learn to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody - but - yourself.

To be nobody - but -yourself-- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

As for communicating nobody-but-yourself to others, that means working just a little harder than anybody who isn't real can possibly imagine. Why?

Because nothing is quite as easy as just being just like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time--and whenever we do it, we are not real.

If, at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've loved just once with a nobody-but-yourself heart, you''ll be very lucky indeed.

And so my advice to all young people who wish to become real is: do something easy, like dreaming of freedom--unless you're ready to commit yourself to feel and work and fight till you die.

Does that sound dismal? It isn't. 

It's the most wonderful life on Earth. 

Or so I feel.

 

Where Everything is Music

Submitted by Aya Nishina on Thu | 07.16.2009 | 02:47


Where Everything is Music

Don't worry about saving these songs!
And if one of our instruments breaks,
it doesn't matter.

We have fallen into the place
where everything is music.

The strumming and the flute notes
rise into the atmosphere,
and even if the whole world's harp
should burn up, there will still be
hidden instruments playing.

So the candle flickers and goes out.
We have a piece of flint, and a spark.

This singing art is sea foam.
The graceful movements come from a pearl
somewhere on the ocean floor.

Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge
of driftwood along the beach, wanting!

They derive
from a slow and powerful root
that we can't see.

Stop the words now.
Open the window in the centre of your chest,
and let the spirits fly in and out.

-Rumi

Image © 2004-2008 Lisa Deitrich

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