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George Benson’s “El Barrio”
For a bit of fun, I transcribed this fun guitar solo.
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Telemann 4th thing
Partly to find the perfect recording environment to make the instrument sound its best (according to me) and partly as an arbitrary event in the constant practice regime, every so often I pop to a local church and record myself playing some Telemann.
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Telemann in St Lukes
Before I start my full-time job, I have to get this out of my system: Can I “just” record a short piece, nicely and accurately? What I learned from making this recording (well, most of it I already knew) Playing the trombone (and some other instruments, but I think particularly the trombone) is a bit
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Jazz trombonist attempts Classical music
The other day, a good trombone playing friend* referred to me down the pub as “a jazz player”. Well, it so happened that a few days later I was doing some playing around with microphones (see this blog post) and with this in mind I attempted to play some very classical music: Telemann’s second Fantasie
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Microphone positioning
I have some free time. Sometimes I make recordings of trombone quartet concerts or of myself playing, and I’m aware that I don’t know much about positioning microphones, except that it makes a huge difference to the sound. I went to a local church for an hour and played around a bit. What I learned:
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Jonny Briggs on a bike (The Acrobat)
Seven years since this fun and games in Jesus Green https://www.facebook.com/779225698/videos/10155151406520699/
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Very old multitrack recordings
Here are some recordings that I made when living in The Old Chapel, Mursley Quator de forme Liturgique My favourite original piece for trombone quartet, by Jacques Charpentier. I recorded it because at the time I wasn’t able to find any other recordings. The two middle movements I think are just beautiful. Crucifixus by Antonio
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On multitrack recording
First tip: Don’t. (see this blog post) What is multitrack recording? What’s so difficult about that? My method FWIW Bearing in mind the thoughts in this blog post, the most likely reason for doing yet another one would be: to see what a new arrangement sounds like with real instruments. So, if I’m going to