(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.

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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.

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…

[UPDATE] Here’s a first cut at the requested MIDI file for this tune. I’ve not made one of these before (sheepish grin), so please comment. Is this what you’re looking for? Changes?

Hey, hey, hey! (spoken in my best “Fat Albert” voice)

I’m so excited about the new funk piano videos I’m working on! I’m to the point where music is written and most of the arrangements are in good shape, so I’m just about to start shooting. It’s been a while and I’ve forgotten how much work goes into getting the full tutorial series together. Writing, arranging, putting together sheet music and MIDI files (yes, the new series’ will have MIDI files so that you can download for practicing), not to mention shooting and editing.

At any rate, I needed a quick break from all that, just to play a little music, so I put together this cover of one of the very first funk piano tunes I learned: “Tune 88″ by Jeff Lorber.

Keep an eye on the site, because there will be a ton of new stuff and some big announcements coming soon. As they say on the hold lines: “your patience is appreciated.”