Lennon Bus Brings Prize Package for Young Bands in NE, DC
04/15/10 21:37, by wakitu, Categories: Music News , Tags: amplifier, band, boss, edirol, high school, john lennon educational tour bus, middle school, percussion pad, roland, roland us
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus brings Rockin’ Roland Battle of the Bands to Washington DC and New England.
If your rockin’ band has a maximum of five members, and ALL are currently enrolled in middle school or high school, you can enter your… more »
A Little Monday Morning Blues - with Grigor, Lapple and OBrien
04/12/10 01:49, by dang, Categories: Monday Morning Blues, Guitar Players , Tags: barefootmusicnews_com, dan grigor, edward lapple, jam, monday morning blues, republic guitar, shane o_brien
I found another take from a JAM with Ed and Shane. We were all done with a video shoot and just hanging around drinking bud from a can and playing some blues. I love that little Republic guitar of his. I covet it. Not one like it. It. Sweet little… more »
Not Locomotion, Its Self Promotion
04/10/10 02:03, by ed.lapple, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Take It From Me, Bands , Tags: band, barefootmusicnews, cd, ep, grigor, lapple, showcase gig, youtube
Take It From Me by Edward Lapple Well time to pull up the rocking chair, break out the pipe and sit next to the cracker barrel… What the heck is a cracker barrel anyway? I can’t find one at Costco and it doesn’t sound as though it would be good for you… more »
Cisco Robles Live from NAMM2010 at gig-fx
04/08/10 04:34, by dang, Categories: NAMM 2010, NAMM 2010 Music, BFMN Exclusive, Frank Butler, Dan Grigor , Tags: barefootmusicnews, catfish butler, chopper, cisco robles, dan grigor, gig-fx, kilo-wah, kinman pickups, mega-wah, pro-chopper, renato giordano, vod
by Dan Grigor
While at the gig-fx booth at NAMM2010 with HeXx Henderson we heard that Cisco Robles was going to be there as well. Catfish and I couldn’t resist hanging around and talking and listening to his set. We have a lot in common, Cisco… more »
A Road to Hip Hop
04/05/10 00:30, by paul.bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bfmn, black, blues, branford marsalis, digable planets, duke ellington, guru, hip-hop, jazz, last poets, new york, paul bourgeois, red hot _ cool, stolen moments, waok, watts prophets
Musical Musings
by Paul Bourgeois
I just had this discussion with one of my students, a girl from Detroit. She told me I couldn’t know much about hip-hop because I am a white Canadian, and she’s right.
As GURU (Gifted Unlimited Rhymes… more »
Silent Sideman and the Lucky Break
04/04/10 02:01, by ed.lapple, Categories: Ed Lapple, Take It From Me , Tags: background makes foreground, barefootmusicnews_com, edward lapple, robert evans, shane o_brien, sideman
Take It From Me
by Edward Lapple
I hope that you have had the time to view the Shane O’Brien interview. Shane’s a great guy and he is the epitome of a working, local musician.
One of the concepts that Shane touched on was what he referred to as a… more »
The Pentatonic Scale – A Pent Up Tonic for your Soul - Part 1
04/01/10 01:17, by dang, Categories: Don't Suck at The Blues, Beginner , Tags: 7th, b7, blues, bobby mcferrin, chord, dan grigor, flat, major, minor, patterns, pentatonic scale, scale, scales, snake
I wanted to explain how the pentatonic scale is an innate aspect of our beings. I wrote and rewrote 500 words. OK, who are we kidding? It was more like 800 words or so about this scale and how it has become a part of us. Then I found this… more »
