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Get Your Music Heard: Can I Play A MIDI Keyboard Without A Computer?

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Images By Upsplash  I recently received a question in my inbox asking me if you as a musician can play a MIDI keyboard without a computer? This sparked my curiosity as to the question's orgins and who would this answer benefit? The lessons I provide with this blog is for music production mostly and artist working in this field of music. This sometimes takes into account many different kinds of musicians and instrumentalists as well as bedroom composers and producers of music. The focus of this answer was more precise with what the reader was asking, i.e., the MIDI keyboard usage in music today. The advances in technology has caused quite an impact on performers of all walks of life. I can even go further to say that these technologies have even disruptive how the entertainment industry conducts business on a day-to-day bases. This new frontier of producers and performers may know much in the way of how music should be distributed and how to get the optimum advantages of the equipme

A Call to Music Content Creators:Ever Wanted To Produce Music For Social Media?🎢🎻🎺🎹🎼🎀

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What tools are you using to get your music heard? Would you like to learn the secrets to singing on stage? Learn how to listen with your heart and head to move a crowd with your performances. Be different and live like a Rocksta! Find the gear to get started and get the sound you want . Use different products to promote your music organically. Use laptops, tablets, and your smart phone to their desired effect to catalog your tunes. Learn how to start a Dj business on a budget. All Photos provided by Upsplash Let's get started making music the way you want to in your own original way. Would you like to start producing some awesome music? Then stay tune to this newsletter and get a free music lessons and info. on how you can be the creative force of musical change.

THE MUSICIAN THEY CALL" BAT"

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Photos provided by Upsplash Photos provided by Upsplash   Most of us in the jazz world know the name,Batiste.We listen to the cool sounds of the entertainer Jon Batiste who is associated with the young music lions coming out of New Orleans today.You know  the ones,Trombone Shorty,Kermit Ruffin,Ivan Neville,Kent Jordan,the Dirty Dozen Brass Band,Christian Scott,and the famed Marsalis Brothers. What do these family of players have in common you ask? Well,other than their approximation to a close knit and very closed unit of musicians from Nawlins' as we say down South ,the proverbial answer is one man they call "Bat". Alvin Batiste,jazz clarinet player virtuoso and the inventor of the "Cosmic Hipness".  Alvin "Bat" Batiste was an educator, bandleader, composer and a mentor to hundreds of maybe thousands young musicians around the world. “Bat" won the Downbeat Jazz Poll Clarinetist of the Year so many times. And rightfully so I might add that most w