Notes_Norton

I tried sheet music to MIDI when it first arrived, and immediately saw the shortcomings. We don't quantize our music when we play it. Scanning sheet music is like step entering, no groove, no dynamics, no ornaments, no phrasing. IMO the best way to enter MIDI is get a good controller, and play it into the sequencer or DAW in real time. There are plenty of continuous controllers that can shape the notes while playing (see http://www.nortonmusic.com/midi_cc.html for a list) that if used properly, and especially if done with your MIDI controller while playing the parts in, that give life to the otherwise expressionless notes. The music isn't all in the notes, it's mostly in the nuances of how you play those notes. Insights and incites by Notes

"You Talk Too Much" - Joe Jones

The past, the present and the future all walk into a bar. It was tense.

Back On The Chain Gang - The Pretenders

Prostitutes are buy sexual. (groans appreciated)

Love Rollercoaster - Ohio Players

Please ignore this. I didn't screw up Really You believe me, dontcha? OK Maybe I did. But let's keep it our little secret.

My all-time favorite tenor sax player and a nice mostly mellow LP The Dolphin - Stan Getz Quartet

Not a fan, but do appreciate his work. Haven't heard too much of his playing since Zappa. I guess I need to go exploring. Not a fan of the 5 that I mentioned above either. I just like their work and in my current writing of BiaB styles, I'm learning from their recorded work. It's difficult to pick favorites when there are so many to choose from. Notes

Can you type that a little louder? I'm hard of herring. ?

Cue Limbo music here

"Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal

Overfishing makes us hard of herring. I won't eat farmed fish either: I don't believe in roughy housing, or carp pooling. I've haddock up to here!

Another of my favorite rock drummers, John Bonham (in no particular order, and each one for different reasons: Bernard 'Pretty' Purdy, Hal Blaine, Ginger Baker, John Bonham, & Neil Peart) I learn a lot by listening and analyzing what they do. When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

Barf ? Life is too short to eat mediocre food ?

As Time Goes By - Dooley Wilson

Here's a jazz album I haven't listened to in a long time. IMO Some nice cuts on it too. The Blues And The Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson

Jet Airliner - Paul Penna The original version, before the Steve Miller cover. I'd guess Paul was happy about that, as songwriter's royalties are usually more than the artist's royalties.

Back in the late 1960s Eric Burdon and the drummer from The Animals (sorry, I for got his name) came into the club we were playing at and asked to sit in. We had a lot of fun. After the gig we went to an Afro-American bar because they were open until 4 AM and jammed with them. At 4 we asked if anyone else was open and they sent us to a club without a sign. Come to find out it was a 'gay' bottle club called Gussy-Wussies and a couple from our band, Eric, and a couple from the black band jammed with that band until 6. It was a night to remember. Eric could make up some decent blues song lyrics on the spot. I guess it was his first trip to the USA and he was as thrilled about it as we were. See See Rider - The Animals

Good choice Bill. Diana is the real deal. Another great jazz gal on piano and vocals is Eliane Elias Call Me - Eliane Elias She's a Brazilian so it's only right to include this Chega De Saudade - Eliane Elias

Another of my favorite drummers is Ginger Baker White Room - Cream

Grass-fed burger, from Florida beef, with becan and cheese. All this is an excuse to eat the becan ;)

I changed mine to "Incorrect" That way I enter anything, and my browser reminds me "Your password is incorrect".