About the “Amen Break” from Wikipedia: ‘The “Amen break” was a brief drum solo performed in 1969 by Gregory Sylvester “G. C.” Coleman in The Winstons’s song “Amen, Brother”. ‘The “Amen Break”, “Amen”, or imitations thereof, are frequently used as sampled drum loops in hip hop, jungle, breakcore and drum and bass music. [...] ["Amen, [...]
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Turn Your KORG MS2000 into a Drum Machine with Bass Line and Lead
I recently got a chance to jam with a Korg MS2000B. Released in 2003, the Korg MS2000B is “a new version of the original Korg MS-2000 synthesizer with an updated sound set, black metallic color scheme and dedicated vocoder mic.”1. The original Korg MS-2000 uses virtual analog subtractive synthesis, has 2 ADSR attenuators, 1 resonant [...]
Favorite (Goa Trance Track): “Mai Mai” by Jaia (Jaïa)
“Mai Mai” by Jaia (Jaïa) from their album Blue Energy (1998; Cross Records) is another one of my favorite goa trance tracks. It’s hard to get your hands on — as far as I’m aware there’s no place where one can purchase a legal high-quality down-loadable copy of the track. Blue Energy was re-released in [...]
Favorite: “Something Good” by Utah Saints
Today, I’ve been listening to the original release of “Something Good” by Utah Saints (Jez Willis Tim Garbutt) – a personal favorite of mine from the early 1990s. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about the track: ‘”Something Good” is a house music song released by Utah Saints in 1992. It was first included as [...]
EarPractice.com Lesson 3: Intervals – Tritone and Major 3rd (Musical Ear Training)
EarPractice.com was created by Geoff Peters and myself with the goal of helping “you become a better music listener and musician by presenting a series of informative and fun ear training videos.”1 In our third offering, Geoff talks about intervals, in particular, how to play a tritone (aka Diminished 5th or Augmented 4th) and the [...]
