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• social/reddit

  9 Oct 2016 [https://reddit.com/r/gypsyjazz/comments/56nn7w/any_tips_on_soloing_over_fast_chord_changes/d8lfgd8/]

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  If the chord progression implies a very strong, specific, and complex harmonic movement, sometimes there’s nothing to do but just play the changes.

  If there is a strong and stable implied key, something like Rhythm Changes for example, then just focusing on the implied key can work well.

  Sometimes even if there’s not one single implied key for an entire section, you might still be able to simplify and group chords together into subsections with similar tonality. You might end up with 2 or 3 different tonal chunks with a number of changes inside each.

  Another thing you might try is re-harmonizing, or super-imposing your own chord changes that are similar to the ones you’re playing over, but maybe that you’re more familiar with. If there’s a section of one chord.. going into some other chord… resolving to a tonic.. then it’ll probably sound find to play it as if it were a ii V I (or whatever) even if it’s not actually a ii V I.

• social/facebook

  3 Jul 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/videos/10104107135709013]

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  The Workshy killing it at the cherry art festival

• social/reddit

  5 May 2016 [https://reddit.com/r/gypsyjazz/comments/4hx79g/whistled_melody_original_gypsy_jazz/d2u8isd/]

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  Just wanted to say I really enjoy your articulation - very tasteful. The melody definitely has parts that remind me of other melodies, that you are almost quoting, but I don’t know enough to quite place them. Very good stuff, hope to see more.

• social/reddit

  2 Apr 2016 [https://reddit.com/r/WeAreTheMusicMakers/comments/4d2otk/why_is_music_production_so_difficult/d1ncxoj/]

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  Keep in mind that if you’re making music from scratch, as opposed to producing/mixing someone else’s music, then you not only have to learn how to produce, but you also need to learn how to.. well.. be a musician.

  If you’re trying to produce and write your own music, and you don’t already have a musical background (play an instrument, or something) then take the amount of time you expect you’d need to learn the technical “trade” aspects of production (like plumbing/programming, as Batwaffel said) and then double it for the time needed to also become a competent musician.

  Ask yourself - is the stuff you’re making “crap” because the sound quality is bad (lack of production skills) or because it’s musically uninteresting (lack of musicianship)? If it’s the latter and you want to continue trying to make your own music from scratch, you should maybe consider focusing more time on learning an instrument if you haven’t already.

• social/facebook

  14 Feb 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/posts/10103764388457253]

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  microsoft made a thing that uses machine learning to guess a dog’s breed from a picture. it does that pretty well. way more fun to have it guess a person’s breed.

• social/facebook

  24 Jan 2016 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/posts/10103720257815413]

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  this so much.

• social/facebook

  6 Dec 2015 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/posts/10103619024752283]

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  like you some minimal grooves and the sweet sexy soundscapes?

  dig our friend, Matthew James Simonson, the sorcerer of samples.

  featuring myself sounding like a flock of birds on the track “Praise”

• social/facebook

  12 Nov 2015 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/posts/10103570433759023]

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  bari sax, trumpet, drums - my kind of dance party. these guys are cooler than I will ever be

• social/facebook

  10 Nov 2015 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/posts/10103566163167323]

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  doggie!!!!!! :D also cel shaded ooooooooohhhh cel shaded

• social/facebook

  7 Nov 2015 [https://www.facebook.com/10111169199177213/posts/10103561059070973]

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  Ooh pretty. languages :)

  Apparently “being born into highly connected language is a better predictor of whether that person is going to be important or not, than being born into language that is very populous, or that is spoken by people that are very wealthy”.

  Russian coming out of nowhere with mad connections.