Several people have requested a MIDI file of my recent cover of Tune 88. I put something together, and updated that post with a link to the MIDI file. However, I’m not exactly sure how you’re all planning to use it, so please try it out and give me some feedback. Is this the kind of thing you want (with bass/drums included)? I opened it in Synthesia (my MIDI file practice tool of choice) and it offered options for which tracks to play, etc. Seemed pretty good.

If you’re a MIDI file user, post some comments as to whether this format will work, or suggestions for changes. I want to provide MIDI files for all of the new groove tutorials — and I’d like to do them in the way which will be most helpful! Some questions to get the discussion started:

• Include the bass/drum backing parts, or would rather just have the piano parts?
• For the piano, does it help for me to split right/left hand into two channels (synthesia can show them in different colors if I do this)

Thanks!

(chicka chicka mow mow) imagine your favorite 1970’s wah-wah funk guitar sound there…

The ball’s starting to roll downhill now. I’ve moved my old aqua-web.com site to its new domain and everything seems to have gone smoothly. Please let me know if you’re having any login problems, etc.

If you’re into social networks, and that’s a more convenient way to keep up, feel free to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. The latest updates are over in the sidebar.

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.

Greetings! Over the years, this site has morphed into mainly a music and piano related posts, so I’ve decided to move things to a more appropriate name:

www.groovewindow.com

I currently only have a placeholder there, but will be moving this site to that domain this coming weekend. If you have bookmarks to the site, be ready to update them, although I’ll be adding redirects such that you should be automatically redirected to the corresponding page on the new site when you try to visit here. If I do things correctly, nobody should need to create new accounts. Everything should simply move. Here’s hopin’ (crosses fingers).

I just didn’t want you to be surprised by the change :)

I hope to get the switch done this weekend (July 3/4) when I’m not grilling or watching fireworks…