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(chicka chicka mow mow) imagine your favorite 1970′s wah-wah funk guitar sound there…
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Funk Groove #4 is written, notated, MIDI-fied and the backing tracks are sounding pretty good. I’m shooting and editing now, and hope to have the full series posted before I leave at the end of July. As a teaser, here’s a little audio snippet of the ending.
Funk Groove #4 in Bb (Ending Snippet) by groovewindow
Finally, I’ve been toying with doing a weekly live broadcast on ustream. I’m not exactly sure what the format or content would be yet, but I believe I could pull it off.
What do you think? If you have thoughts, ideas, suggestions for what you’d like to see — post them in the comments. I think it might be a quicker way to get questions and issues you’re dealing with up and out into the airwaves.
7. July 2010 at 19:19
Another great teaser… Damn, my tongue is wearing the floor ^^
Just hop that the drums are not the same all along the song, I can’t get on it to catch the beats =)
Will you release some tuts like you did with youtube ? That could be enough, I did learn Funk groove 1 with =) Did you see my video response ? =)
8. July 2010 at 00:33
Wow — I hadn’t seen that! Nice playing!
Don’t worry — the new groove will make more sense when you hear the whole thing, — and there are big long sections which are ‘straight ahead’ funk. I will definitely be doing a full set of tutorial videos for this (as well as at least another three full tunes). That’s my whole goal these days — new complete series like the original ones.
9. July 2010 at 05:56
Wohoo! According to the audio snippet, funk #4 has got to be the coolest one yet. Personally, I like how the groove kind of “lurch” in that not so “straight ahead” way. I “print screened” the score pic you published on Twitter, it’s fun to play as well. Feel free to upload the full score at any time :) Well well, end of July you said…
Live broadcasts potentially could develop into a neat feature. I’m not sure how that would work though, would it be possible to somehow communicate (e.g. ask question) live or is it a “one-way” broadcast?
9. July 2010 at 07:40
Heh — I’ll definitely publish the music (and MIDI file) with the series, but I’ve got a few more mistakes to fix, still!
The whole point to doing something live would be to make it more interactive. I get great questions through email, twitter and facebook, and while text responses are ok, sometimes it’s clearer to demonstrate certain things on a piano.
UStream does have a live chat for each live channel, so there’s definitely a way to communicate during the broadcast. I’d probably try to get a consistent place to post questions ahead of time, so that I could cover them in the next live show. We’ll see — it’s just an idea at this point, but it has possibilities.