Video Responses & Dirk Bertels’ Piano Groove Tutor
Ok, lots of happenings in the FunkGroovoSphere these days. Two separate people (that I know of) have managed to pull off decent videos of themselves playing the first funk groove:
- aerospacepat pulls off a pretty good attempt, and holds the honor of being first to post a response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aujX6X7Hoto - alexserbia89 grooves it with the drums on his keyboard. He even got some of the parts that weren’t transcribed… Nice chops, Alex!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89sufZ_EMpU
Excellent stuff! If you’re working on any of the stuff in my videos, shoot some video and post them as video responses! First, I love to see other people get these down. Second, I’ll be happy to offer tips/suggestions — if you want ‘em :)
In addition, friend and reader, Dirk Bertels has honored me with putting some snippets from the first funk groove in as one of the built-in demos for his cool Piano Groove Tutor.
Find the ‘Launch’ button on his page to bring this cool beast up. It provides a musical view of Midi Files which shows some notation, and highlights the playing of that notation on an onscreen keyboard. You can freely change the tempo to anything you’d like, enable/disable the right or left hand, backing rythm and metronome. This could really develop into a great practice tool!
Here’s a quick clip of my simplistic MIDI sound card rendering up this funky little section:
http://www.groovewindow.com/assets/PianoGrooveTutor-Funk1.mp3
Dirk’s other default demos include some very tasty traditional latin piano parts, so be sure to check that out as well.
It’s so very cool to see these things find their way out onto the net!
Until next time,
- Jonathon
