Quora: What do you think of McCartney’s bass playing in Harrison’s “Something”? It seems to get mixed reviews.
31 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via (Quora) Answered by Jake Gerber, Musical Session Player
Put more succinctly : his playing is friggin BRILLIANT !!! I wish I was getting paid for this answer. In any event … I’ll commence with this. Anyone that doesn’t believe Paul put everything he had into Georges songs is mistaken. Paul took great pride in respect to everything he played. He upped the ante on three of George’s songs I can think of, two of which are on Abbey Road, the third on Revolver…
Paul’s playing on “ Something “ could be studied in a music theory class in university level. The first time you hear the song played through a proper playback system ( vinyl ) where you can actually hear the bass, you might think Paul was overplaying, there’s a lot of movement going on, and the songs a ballad which in popular music are rather restrained in respect to the bass lines, if indeed it even actually has a dedicated bass line per se…
Reduce Your Stress With the Ten Most Relaxing Songs On Earth
29 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via fast company) By Melanie Curtin
Everyone knows they need to manage their stress. When things get difficult at work, school, or in your personal life, you can use as many tips, tricks, and techniques as you can get to calm your nerves.
So, here’s a science-backed one: make a playlist of the 10 songs found to be the most relaxing on earth…
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/90274251/song-reduces-anxiety-neuroscience
Video of the Week: If Willie Wonka Was a Musician–Wintergatan’s Amazing Marble Machine
29 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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A brief history of why artists are no longer making a living making music
29 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via Roots Music Canada) by Ian Tamblyn
Today’s column from veteran Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tamblyn is adapted from a speech he gave at a symposium at Trent University. It’s a long read, but we decided to post it here all at once it its entirety because, well, it’s just that good.
I would like to begin this talk on the future of “popular” music with a few cautionary notes about our ability to see into the future clearly. The fact is, it would appear we are not very good at it. Somewhere back in our Savannah DNA, we got very good at reacting to danger when it presented itself — say a lion or tiger. However, it seems we are less capable of looking ahead to avoid danger. In other words, we are a reactive rather than proactive animal. The contemporary analogy in relation to climate change is that we are similar to the frog in a pot of hot water who does not have the sensors to recognize the increasing temperature and the fact that he should get out of the boiling pot.
Yes, there have been a handful of futurists – H.G Wells, Aldous Huxley, and given the state of many current governments I would grudgingly include Ayn Rand. Probably the most successful futurists in our lifetime may have been Marshall McLuhan and Stanley Kubrick, but even so, all of these writers and film makers have been only partially successful gazing into the crystal ball. Given that the past is no more fixed than the future I begin this conversation with you.
What I hope to discuss in this time with you is the relationship between technology, the gift of music and the commodification of that gift and how that gift and the commodification of the gift has been eroded in the digital age, and as I see it, could continue to be eroded well into the 21st century…
Video of the Week: Louis Armstrong and Frank Sinatra Sing Death Metal
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via the verge) By
It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians
Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect. It wasn’t that they had missed out on payments for a single song — it was that they had missed out on payments for 70 songs, going back at least six years.
The problem, they said, was metadata. In the music world, metadata most commonly refers to the song credits you see on services like Spotify or Apple Music, but it also includes all the underlying information tied to a released song or album, including titles, songwriter and producer names, the publisher(s), the record label, and more. That information needs to be synchronized across all kinds of industry databases to make sure that when you play a song, the right people are identified and paid. And often, they aren’t…
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/29/18531476/music-industry-song-royalties-metadata-credit-problems
Video of the Week: The Story Behind The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun”
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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Vinyl records are on track to outsell compact discs for the first time in 33 years
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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(via cnbc) by Daniel Bukszpan
This past week, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) released its mid-year report. It showed that 80% of the of music industry’s revenue comes from streaming, but it also showed that revenue from sales of vinyl records is on track to overtake that of compact discs by the year’s end, should current trends continue.
When the compact disc was introduced in 1982, it was billed as a technology that would render vinyl records obsolete. But while the general public may not have anticipated a resurgence in LP sales, those who have been paying attention for the past few years likely aren’t surprised…
Baseball and Organ Music: How’d That Happen?
28 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
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When did organ music and baseball become an item? Every Little Thing talks to some pro organ players to find out how organs and ballparks got together.
Every Moment Has A Song 