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Just on the train coming back from a week in Newcastle where I’ve been doing the International Guitar Foundations ‘Rock the North’ youth rock camp at the wonderful Sage in Gateshead. Just under 100 enthusiastic kids between 10 and 18 turned up for a week of lessons and group workshops which ended with a full on concert in Hall 2 at the Sage.
When Chris Coyier of CSS Tricks wrote me an e-mail and asked if he could use the example I’d posted on the CSS Tricks forum using jQuery background animations for a tutorial I almost shat myself!!!
Chris’ blog CSS Tricks is one of my favorite blogs. He writes really useful tutorials and I’ve learned a great deal of cool stuff from him. Being a bit of a beginner at the Web Design thing having only been doing HTML stuff for a little over a year I was quite pleased (and a bit gobsmacked!) that what was a bit of an experiment learning jQuery turned into a full on CSS Tricks tutorial bonanza!!! Continue reading article »
Here’s a quick fun thing you can try in Logic using the Transformer object. Basically we’re going to turn a normal sustain pedal into a kick drum pedal.
The Transformer object is tucked away inside the Enviroments ‘New’ file menu. Chances are you might never have actually used this as it looks a bit daunting if you don’t know what is is. It simply allows you to change or ‘Transform’ an incoming MIDI message into something else in real time. Continue reading article »
Here’s a useful link if your programming any sort of Urban or R’n'B drums. At logic-cafe awaits a full set of Akai MPC groove templates. These are a really great resource for any programmer. The Akai MPC has become synonymous with the urban pop sound. Continue reading article »
I’ve just completed the two most mind-numbingly boring days of reinstalling a new studio computer. And I’m not even finished yet!
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m super excited about my lovely shiny(matte) Mac Pro. With it’s lovely 8 core processor and more RAM than I need. But my god it’s been a trial. Lost serial numbers, mislaid installer CD’s, intaller patches, plugin wrappers, Logic validation issues and tranferring and testing 700 gigs of sample library has left me feeling a bit brain dead! I must of put my administrator password in about 200 times too! Continue reading article »
Here’s a quick Brent Mason style country lick for you. It starts out with a rather nifty open string run. I’ve played around with these for a while and you can get some pretty cool ideas going with this technique.
The basic premise is that every time you go to fret a note that is the same pitch as an open string you use the open string instead. This creates some really nice cascading runs. It’s also cool as you get some weird dissonance’s too. The idea is leave the open string ringing into the next note. Continue reading article »
Finally got the new site up. Not quite finished but pretty much there. Be posting some free guitar tutorials and general stuff about what I’m up to. BIMM students can still grab downloads from the usual place! Expect the site to develope over time.
I’m pretty busy at work and have to revamp the the studio but will try hard to make this a good resource for guitar tutorials and resources aswell as web stuff too!
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