Playing an ukulele gives most people a big smile on their face!
This is an uptempo, memorable tune in typical jazz swing style 1920-40 with a melodic hook in the middle. Think Gerswhin on an ukulele, harmonica, acoustic bass and drums.
Enjoy!
I have participated in the International Songwriting Competition 2010 with a song called You Made Me Feel That I’m OK. It has a touch of a soul wibe to it, I have heard people said. If you have 3 minutes, have a listen! Yes it’s me singing.
(I had to place the song at my Myspace site as part of the participation in the competition, but I’ll try to put it here in a player soon. )
I got an iPhone 4 some days ago and realised that I couldn’t hear any of my tracks at this site because Apple refuses to implement Flash. I certainly hope they will some day…! Anyways, a solution to this challenge is using SoundCloud.
If you have iPhone, please listen to all my tracks for the MFTM course at SoundCloud.
Be professional!
You know the deal, its a remix competition… Make a bangin remix and you could win stuff. You have until May 31st, 2010 to download the stems.
Yesterday I read an interesting article that made me thinking: am I a gear junkie?
This is of course not a new thought for people who make music with computers I reckon. But I started to think about: how well do I really know my gear? Do I really know how to take one single sound and turn it into something interesting?
Or do I just collect huge amounts of new software, plugins, gear etc - only scratching the surface, and never use my time to really dive into the possibilities that one software program has?
The most scary thing is this: do you rather use your valuable time to search the web for even one more new *fantastic* piece of software that really will make you compose that ultimate piece of music, than sitting down, turn off the connection to the web and start composing with the gear you have?!
The web is a really useful thing, but at the same time very frightening in my opinion if it steals all your time and the consequence is that you stop composing! I’m partly guilty at charge, as you already have figured out 
SPL celebrates one year of Analog Code and gives away one Attacker per computer. The Attacker is based upon the famous Transient Designer and provides its ‘more attack’ function.
The Attacker give away promotion is running from October 15 to November 15, 2009.
Ask Video are giving away a handy little program called Tempo-Delay Calculator.
Too much gear and too little time to learn to use it…! Well, Mats Claesson is a guy who has made a very thorough video tutorial about NI Kontakt 2. The tutorial explains Kontakt 2 from basics to more complex things. It also has some samples you can download to build your own instrument, to really learn how a sampler works. Although the tutorial is based on Kontakt 2, it’s also relevant for Kontakt 3 users!
You should also check out some of his other tutorials about Reaktor and Vokator.
If you are searching for an older version of a program, maybe you can find it here:
I have learned that the bigger your VST plugin folder is, probably the lesser productivity you will have. BUT, sometimes you have to get some goodies to let the creativity flow!
The guys at smartelectronix have made a lot of interesting free VST plugins. I’m going to check out Ambience (reverb, very nice on drums), LiveCut and MdspDuckDelay.