Break On Through To The Other Side

Our project has been trying to reach out to up and coming musicians, giving them the opportunity to work with other musicians in pairs in order to collaborate and create.  The idea is to get musicians and producers in the same space and create something new, unique, and what’s next.

Any suggestions as how to reach out, or to improve how we do things…please visit us at:

www.streetdreamerz.com

I want to give a shout out to all of the small producers and dreamers who believed in themselves and others and are doing it on their own.

The first group of shout outs goes to those cats doing it in the VA/DC area

Shout Out to Frozen Flame Records in Fredericksburg, VA

Shout Out to Blue Room studios in Washington, DC

Shout Out to Sound of Music in Richmond, VA

You don’t have to be Arista Records to know what’s hot, and you don’t have to be an American Idol winner to be a star.  We’re all stars.  Just keep doing what you love and you’ll shine.

I was checking out Cyberfret the other day and thought I would give a little review.  First, it is ad loaded.  In fact, it is so full of ads that it burns the eyes.  However, if you are a n00b at playing bass, it does have a lot of good, simple basic articles that would be adequate at providing information a young bassist can utilize.  Such as this article on tuning:

Getting into Drop D from standard tuning

Since the only note that is different from standard tuning is the 4th string, here is an easy way to get into Drop D tuning. Play your 2nd string open, which is a D. Then play the 12 fret harmonic on the 4th string (touch the string lightly right above the 12th fret bar). Tune that harmonic note down a whole step so that it sounds like the open 2nd string. When both notes are ringing at the same time, you will then hear them “crash” against each other when they are out of tune. The further those crashes are from each other, the closer you are to being in tune.

Atlantic Street is a cool looking site that claims to have the ability to listen to the up and coming hip hop artists.  I just can’t figure out how.  Like I’m completely sure that this is a great site because it looks hot, and I feel hipper for having messed around with it…I just can’t figure out how to find what I’m looking for.