Ok time for a bit of music to get you all into the mood for Halloween. There are not too many tunes specifically for this holiday but these are some of the good ones I know. I’m playing the guitar and singing as well as my friend Jessica Vigars doing some great singing.
Enjoy!!!
I’m a crazy witch
I’m a crazy witch, stirring up my brew.
What will you give me to put in my stew? Read the rest of this entry »
Ok. I’m really lucky to have this problem. My old studio in my last house was a tiny carpeted room that had no noticeable reverb so this was not a problem for me. Now I have moved into this wonderful 1900 built triplex that has a new huge room for my control room. The problem:
Tooo Much Reeeeverrbbb. . . . This is because the walls reflect the sound and it bounces around the room. This gives the room an inherent built in and uncontrollable reverb.
Recording and mixing all have this reverb added automatically to what you are hearing and it makes all recording have this added and all listening becomes biased by it.
You can spend thousands on acoustic tiles or you can follow the instructions here . . .
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This is a continuation of the Children and Consumerism.
Ok my kid is obsessed with trains and by default Thomas the Tank Engine.
We wonder how kids get so into consuming things so quickly?
We do it to them.
Case and point: Jake’s 4th birthday party last weekend. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been thinking a lot lately about the Rainbow Songs approach to teaching and learning music. I have come to realize that there is interconnectedness between music, movement and language that support each other though the learning process. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems to me that things have changed a lot since I was a kid. There is just more stuff than their used to be. It just keeps piling into our lives and it seems there is nothing we can do about it.
Last week was my son Jake’s 4th birthday. So far, my wife and I have tried hard to keep our kids away, as much as possible, from the constant bombardment of advertising. We don’t let him watch regular tv and we try not to expose him to too much branding. As a result Jake thinks that Ronald McDonald is just a clown and nothing more. In fact we have never been to McDonalds with him and he does not know what it is. When we went out for his 4th birthday last Thursday he asked to go out to our local Thai restaurant. He even likes the spicy asparagas. Hooray for Jake!
Anyway you still can’t escape it advertising is everywhere and Jake has an Achilles heel. He loves trains.
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