Apple’s Customizable Drum Loops for GarageBand

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Scott K Fish

January 15, 2015

Apple Patent Reveals Customizable Drum Loops for GarageBand

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On January 15, 2015, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that discusses how GarageBand, Logic Pro or combination of these apps can create unique and customized drumming loops for various music genres.

Apple notes in their patent filing that drum machines and sequencers have long been used to generate rhythmic accompaniments for musicians lacking access to a full band, drumming proficiency, or a convenient means of recording drumming performances. Although drum sequences using canned loops can be easy to create, they are extremely limited in their application.

Apple’s invention remedies these problems in great detail.

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Kreutzmann, Hart Join Grateful Dead 50th Anniversary Shows

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Scott K Fish

Jan 16, 2015
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Grateful Dead Reuniting for 50th Anniversary Shows With Phish’s Trey Anastasio
By MIKE AYERS

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The Grateful Dead are going truckin’ one more time.

The remaining four members of the classic-rock band have booked a three-night run at Chicago’s Soldier Field, to take place of July 4th weekend, and with that they’re bringing Phish‘s Trey Anastasio and Bruce Hornsby to help out.

Tickets for the “Fare Thee Well” shows will be made available via Grateful Dead ticketing starting January 20, an online pre-sale starting February 12 at 10 a.m. CST and a general on-sale for the public starting February 14 at 10 a.m. CST. Ticket prices range from $59.50 to $199.50.

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Mike Mitchell: I’m Still Searching

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Scott K Fish

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Dallas’ Mike Mitchell is a Jazz Drumming Prodigy
By Jeremy Hallock – Tue., Jan. 13 2015 at 9:15 AM

Worldly and wise with chops and a first class music education at the age of 20, Dallas drummer Mike Mitchell is a globetrotting prodigy. In the last four years he has won more awards from DownBeat Magazine than he can remember, as well as being cited as an up-and-coming artist in countless other worldwide publications. He has worked with [bassist] Christian McBride, [alto saxophonist] Antonio Hart…. But this only scratches the surface of what Mitchell has already accomplished.

Mitchell has been playing drums since he was two years old, when he watched an older cousin play drums and learned quickly.

“I’m still searching,” he says. “I want to have my own independent style and voice. Most drum nerds are able to listen to an album and immediately tell you who the drummer is and that’s the goal for me.”

It is clear that he has been influenced by jazz fusion drummers like Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, and Lenny White. But he also takes queues from rock drummers like Mitch Mitchell, Keith Moon and John Bonham.

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Gary Chester as Teacher: No Mistakes Were Allowed

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Scott K Fish
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Just Folks: Veteran Lebanon drummer still a student of music
By Les Stewart
UPDATED:   01/11/2015 06:47:06 PM EST

Lebanon musician Dave Lazorcik never wants to stop learning about music.

“I’m going to keep learning until I’m six feet under,” the 63-year-old Lazorcik said. He has been a student of drums and percussion all of his life, studying with a number of memorable teachers.

He went to the Navy School of Music in January 1971, an experience that allowed him to study under several teachers.

He was assigned to the 26th U.S. Army Band in New York, which exposed him to the New York music scene and culture….

After three years in the Army band in New York City, he returned home and studied percussion….

Lazorcik served as executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz for 13 years until January 2007.

Among the many teachers he has studied under was Gary Chester, who played drums on Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle,” John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” and Petula Clark’s “Downtown.”

Lazorcik said Chester was another demanding teacher, describing him as a drill sergeant.

“No mistakes were allowed. Everything had to be perfect,” he said. “You had to sing each part.”

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Mississippi Welcomes Home Legendary Drummer Jaimoe

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Scott K Fish

SKF NOTE: Jaimoe is wonderful guy and a unique, all-around drummer. For those who don’t know Jaimoe’s straight-ahead jazz playing, I’ve included the clip below. Jaimoe stretches out with a fun solo starting at 11:59 in the video.

Mississippi welcomes home legendary drummer Jaimoe
Jacob Threadgill, The Clarion-Ledger 10:18 p.m. CST January 9, 2015

When Jai Johanson left Mississippi in 1965, he told his mother he wouldn’t return until he could afford his own bus ticket home. He returns 50 years later better known as the musical legend Jaimoe.

[H]e joined forces with the Duane and Gregg Allman to forever change Southern rock with the founding of the Allman Brothers Band in 1968.

“I had originally decided to go to New York and play jazz..,” Jaimoe said by phone from his home near Hartford, Connecticut.

“I used to wonder how anyone could play in Count Basie’s band or Duke Ellington’s band for so long, and it’s all about chemistry,” Jaimoe said.

Saturday, the Iron Horse Grill in Jackson is unveiling the grand opening of the 2,500-square-foot Mississippi Music Experience that will include the commemoration of a life-sized wax figure of Jaimoe that will join other Mississippi greats B.B. King, Elvis, Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson.

“I hope they have some cameras there because they’ll see a grown man cry tears of joy,” Jaimoe said.

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