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Month: January 2014

EWI 5000

Posted on January 24, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on EWI 5000

EWI5000_angle_1200x750For the Winter 2014 NAMM show, Akai has announced a new EWI.

EWI 5000 comes loaded with more than 3GB of top-quality sounds, including traditional horn, brass, woodwind, and string sounds, plus progressive synths, leads, and other non-traditional sounds. EWI 5000 includes 12 touch-sensitive metal keys on its top and an eight-wheel thumb- controlled octave roller on the bottom. An EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument) Mode is included for brass players, and EWI 5000 also includes eight control knobs for tweaking Filter, Reverb, Chorus, LFO, Breath Amount, Bite Amount, Semitone Tuning, and Fine Tuning. Both USB MIDI and 5-pin MIDI are onboard for controlling software synths or traditional MIDI modules. A 1/4- inch output to connect to an amplifier or PA and an 1/8-inch headphone output for silent practice are included. EWI 5000 charges via USB or wall power and also includes a USB cable, wall adapter, wireless receiver, and a neck strap.

So, basically, an Akai 4000s with USB, a built in rechargeable battery, and some sounds.

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Carmen Played On Homemade Instruments

Posted on January 22, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on Carmen Played On Homemade Instruments

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Sheet Of The Week – Happy (Pharrell Williams)

Posted on January 21, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on Sheet Of The Week – Happy (Pharrell Williams)

Kinda cool song, I think it is really repetitive and probably should end sooner than it does.

  Happy by Pharrell Willaims for Eb Instruments (78.9 KiB, 263 hits)
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  Happy by Pharrell Willaims for Bb Instruments (79.1 KiB, 184 hits)
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Rare Michael Brecker 1977 At The Village Vanguard

Posted on January 13, 2014 By ericdano

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3-D Printed Instruments at CES

Posted on January 11, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on 3-D Printed Instruments at CES

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Sheet Of The Week – Royals (Lorde)

Posted on January 4, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on Sheet Of The Week – Royals (Lorde)

Catchy little tune. Video is strange though….

  Royals by Lorde for Eb Instruments (119.9 KiB, 149 hits)
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  Royals by Lorde for Bb Instruments (122.5 KiB, 91 hits)
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Tuner vs Tuner

Posted on January 3, 2014January 3, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on Tuner vs Tuner

I’ve had an iPhone since week 1. In fact, I actually went to the FedEX center to get it since I missed the FedEX guy when they were trying to deliver it. Anyhow, it’s a life changing device as I know most of you know. It also has REPLACED several musical things for me, the foremost being Tuners.

I have had, over the years, owned many…..many tuners. One of the last “box” tuners I bought was a Peterson VS1 (I think that is what it is called). A Virtual Strobe Tuner. Used it for several years until the iOS version came out, which I still love. Haven’t used the VS1 in a long time, even though I have it stand mounted on my teaching stand and even have the power cable (somewhere).

Well, a couple of weeks ago, IK Multimedia came out with what they call the “UltraTuner: The most precise iOS tuner ever!”. They claim it can provide “precision down to .01 (yes, that’s 1/100th) of a cent”. I think the Peterson one is to 1/10th of a cent.

So, which is better? Well, in general use, I still like the Peterson Strobe Tuner. I don’t see it being replaced by the UltraTuner anytime soon for checking pitch for a gig or whatever. It just seems faster and just “works” for me. Now, the UltraTuner DOES have a couple of neat things that I have been using, the coolest thing being the “Studio Mode” where it sorta does an EKG reading of how your Pitch has been over time. Very cool. In fact, it would be really awesome if there was some way to email yourself a graph or plots of how the pitch was, I think that could be very helpful and interesting.

So, generally, I think the Peterson Strobe is still my favorite and Go to tuner, though the UltraTuner does have some things going for it. And yes, I have used ClearTune and some of the other tuners. Still think the Strobe is better.

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How Long Does It Take To Form A New Habit?

Posted on January 3, 2014 By ericdano No Comments on How Long Does It Take To Form A New Habit?

This article from brain pickings.org was very interesting:

When he became interested in how long it takes for us to form or change a habit, psychologist Jeremy Dean found himself bombarded with the same magic answer from popular psychology websites and advice columns: 21 days. And yet, strangely — or perhaps predictably, for the internet — this one-size-fits-all number was being applied to everything from starting a running regimen to keeping a diary, but wasn’t backed by any concrete data. In Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don’t, and How to Make Any Change Stick (public library) — which also gave us this fascinating read on the psychology of self-control — Dean, whose training is in research, explores the actual science of habits through the existing empirical evidence on habit-formation. He cites one influential study that gives a more concrete answer to the elusive question of how long it takes for a new habit to take root:

So, start the new year off right and start making new, better habits!

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