I seriously hope this sorta of stuff is not the future of music. I mean…..it is just stupid….
Author: ericdano
Polymath, musician, awesome.
Sad State Of The “Grammy Awards”
Remember when the Grammy Awards used to hand out awards to great performers. Those days are gone. Seems that the Grammys have axed a bunch of categories
“The people who run the National Academy for Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) have been getting an angry earful from musicians upset by the academy’s decision to drop Latin jazz, Cajun/zydeco, and 29 other categories from next year’s Grammy Awards.
The awards for best Classical and best Classical Crossover albums have been axed, too, along with categories in every musical genre — all part of a major Grammy overhaul, announced in April. But it’s the elimination of Latin jazz, as well as other ethnic-music categories, that has triggered a wave of criticism and protests from musicians and other NARAS members in the Bay Area, New York, and Los Angeles. Big names like Carlos Santana, Paul Simon, and Herbie Hancock have joined the chorus calling on the Recording Academy, as it now calls itself, to reverse its decision..”
So we are going to see the same crap get awarded. If anyone had doubts, the whole LA area now is completely devoid of creativity now. Hollywood cranks out great hits like Jim Carey in Mr. Poppers Penguins, unfunny shows like “the Office”, and now the Grammy awards just wants to pat itself on the back for producing compressed crap they call music.
Terrible.
Last Friday Night
There is a good reason for posting this….other than it has Katy Perry in it. It’s towards the end……something when the parents get home and Uncle Kenny….
Sheet Of The Week (Bonus) – Stayin’ Alive (Bee Gees)
Go get your…..um…..Sunday fever happening. I guess I should have done this one on Saturday instead of Sunday. Oh well. Stayin Alive is good any day of the week.
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Sheet Of The Week – Learn To Fly (Foo Fighters)
This week sheets are from the Foo Fighters. I like the Foo Fighters. If you haven’t seen the music video, check it out. Good stuff.
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Sibelius Takes The Lead
Yes, a lot of people use Sibelius. They make a good notation package. Some prefer the flexibility that Finale offers. But what about if you want to make music on the go? Say, on an iPad. Well, you really can’t…….yet…..but….
Avid just released Sibelius Scorch for the iPad, which is a step towards making scores on an iPad. Scorch allows you to take all your Sibelius scores, view them, transpose them, play them. But not, it seems, do any editing. At least not yet. For people with a lot of Sibelius scores, this $5 app sounds great. People with Finale scores……we seem to be out of the loop….again.
Hopefully this first release of Scorch will be followed by a some sort of Sibelius for iPad that allows editing. I would think that if they have transpose, display, ability to view individual parts, and play back that actual editing would be fairly easy to do…..
Magical iPad
Ok, not really music related, but I love the creativity people have with the iPad.
Sheet Of The Week – Make It Mine (Jason Mraz)
I have several Jason Mraz songs I wrote out. Like his stuff, jazzy and pop-ish.
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Michael Brecker On Fragile
Haven’t had a Michael Brecker video up in a while. Here is one. Miss you Michael, you were one of the greats if not the greatest!
Ralph Bowen on Improvising and Teaching
Ralph is a great player. If you haven’t heard of him, go google him or look up some of his stuff on iTunes.
John Scofield & Joe Henderson On Jazz
Great video. Joe was a cool cat. Got to play with him many times in College.
Sheet Of The Week – Everything (Michael Buble)
Unless you have been living in a cave, you should know about Michael Buble. He’s a Canadian singer who was doing a lot of big band vocals sort of like how Harry Connick Jr was doing (what the heck happened to Harry…..he is MIA).
Anyhow, Michael Buble did a crossover album in 2007 (I think) where he did more pop type songs without his big band. It’s rather good, and this is one of my favorite songs off that album.
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Sheet Of The Week – Brick By Boring Brick (Paramore)
Never heard of Paramore? Pity…..great band. Great songs. Such as this one.
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Sheet Of The Week – California Gurls (Katy Perry)
This is a long weekend here in the States. I’ll be having 3 Sheets of the week to celebrate. The first up is California Gurls by Katy Perry. The rap section is tacet as…..well…..it’s rap. Doesn’t come out too good on a saxophone…..unless you like lots of repeating notes.
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Phil Woods On Charlie Parker
Yup…..it’s usually NOT the instrument.