Tuesday, August 13, 2013

What Did You Miss This Week? (Week 324 #368)

Practice Tempo!!!

Highway RickEy, ever the student of the power of proper practice techniques, has a hot new idea about practicing at your ideal "internal tempo" and he introduced the topic last night. He'll be modifying his super-amazing tempo calculator and we'll announce it here in a couple weeks.


Tickets On Sale Now - Chicago Blues Harp Bash #6!!!

Almost as much fun as the Bash itself is unveiling the exciting new poster design from our amazing designer friend, Marianna, "Mrs. Corporate" Delinck Manley every year!



We now have the Facebook Event page live, so if you have a Facebook account, please go here immediately and click "Join" so all your friends will catch wind of this cool show: Facebook Event. For extra credit, you can also click the "Invite Friends" button at the Event Page and do just that, invite all your blues loving friends to join you for the show!

If you don't have your own Bash tickets yet, hurry here to get yours!

September 22, 2013, 6pm, in Szold Hall at the Old Town School of Folk Music

Featuring:

Johnny Sansone, Zoe Savage, Tall Paul Sabel, Scott Dirks and Grant Kessler.

The bandleader this year is Shoji Naito and he's lined up Mike Scharf on bass and Mark Fornek on drums.

Mark your calendars - it's going to be a hot show!

Also, Joe has copies of three of Sansone's discs available in class - $15 for one, $25 for two and $30 for all three.

Class Notes
  • Old Town is on break and the session resumes September 9. Register now!
  • Reminder from Joe that he's working up prizes for the recording contest, so don't forget to be working on getting your best material down on disc before the end of the year!
  • Bash poster distribution - We're having the Bash poster printed now and we need volunteers to help get them hanging in all the right places ASAP. If you're willing to get some to places like Reckless Records, Jazz Record Mart, Old Town School and any place else that is relevant, please connect with Grant.

Zoom H4n For Sale!!!


Highway RickEy has a digital recorder for sale:

"I ordered the new Zoom H6 audio recorder.  Looking to sell my H4N for $100.  It is used and the case is worn but it records perfectly.

Includes manual, Cubase LE4, power cord, and windscreen."

It looks like this.

Contact RickEy directly if you're interested.

- Grant Kessler, B1 Blues Crew