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Jake Provonsha
Aloha
USA
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 Posted - 09/10/2002 : 09:58:00 AM
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I've had the Peter Moon video, Magic of the Ukulele, for a couple of months now and find it wonderful but less than perfect. His tune selection is great because it is Hawaiian music and not campfire songs. The performance of the songs and the video coverage would rival any performance video. I'm still entranced just listening to this genius and his back-up guitarist play the songs. The basic instruction of the songs is complete but he is a master musician, performing some pretty advanced stuff. That is where the explanation of what he is doing seems lacking. The camera angles often show his right hand while your ear listens to some dazzling runs that the left hand is performing out of view. It is enough to make a guy pop for one of those high priced study recorders that slows down the lick to a fraction of the performance speed. That brings me to my question; does anyone have any feedback on one of those music study recorders?
By the way, I got the video from:
BVK Enterprises
94-413 Opeha Street
Waipahu, HI 96797
(808) 676-2772/Fax (808)676-2771
There service was excellent!
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kihoalukid
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 09/10/2002 : 1:51:31 PM
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yes thats a great video but it sure needs a tab booklet to go along with it.there are some good computer programs to slow down music. i recently downloaded a free trial version of a program called the amazing slow downer that seems work well. available for windows and mac, find it at...www.ronimusic.com/amsldowin.htm
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RJS
Ha`aha`a
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Posted - 09/26/2002 : 02:57:23 AM
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I use the Sabine -- works well and is cheap. The trade off is that you can only process about 20 seconds of seng at one time. Still, for under $50.00, a nice tool. (PS You have to take the sampling from a digitial source like a CD -- not from analogue tape,
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Jake Provonsha
Aloha
USA
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Posted - 09/28/2002 : 5:19:12 PM
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| Thanks to both of you for the response. I did download the trial version of the slowdown software and it looks like it might work well for study. I've got to check my TV to see if a jack can be plugged for audio output. I'm no audio techie, so getting the sound from the VCR to the computer has me stumped but there must be an easy answer. It seems that the computer software would be a natural for taking audio off a cd. Maybe a letter to Peter Moon asking for a follow up book of tabs for the back fills he demonstrates or something? Yeah, lets hang onto that dream. I'm encouraged by what there is on the video but frustrated at my inability to follow his rapid left hand work. By the way, I did get the Bob Brozman video and there is a lot to learn on it...but he is tuned to ADF#B and I prefer CGEA (with a low C). Not a big deal, however the National tin can uke he uses sounds like fingernails on the blackboard to me. Oh well, as why hard for me. |
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