Category Archives: Jazz, Ukulele and other music

How to stop iPhone Spotify music from shuffling

Shuffle mode in Spotify

Sometimes, I hate shuffling songs. It happend to me when I was using iTunes on iPhone couple of years back, and drove me crazy. And it is happening to me again. This time, Spotify on iPhone. It is driving me absolutely nuts. There is something about knowing what the next song is going to be. [...]

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Turning old laptop into music machine (Spotify)

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Three things that I have. I have a set of awesome speakers that I just HAD TO buy when I was young (made by company called mission). You could say I was a music snob in my youth. I don’t know when I bought it, but it must have been 10 years ago? Not sure. [...]

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My top five bass-lines of all-time (R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron)

Gil Scott-Heron in Harlem in 2010. (Photo by Anthony Barboza/Getty Images via NPR)

Oh, no. Gil Scott-Heron passed away. I loved his song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” The song is amazing in so many ways, but especially the bass line, it had to be in my favorite bass lines of all-time. My co-worker, Patrick and I started to talk about that: “‘The Revolution Will Not Be [...]

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Awesome bass instruction video from Andrew Anderson

Awesome video. I need to play and practice my bass more often… (I actually don’t bow, so this is really intersting for me. I need to find my bow!) “Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andrew Anderson teaches concepts, ideas, and techniques for this double bass in this multi-part series. Andy teaches [...]

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Back from Japan

Sushi Dinner! — Photo by Daigo. I just came back from two week vacation from Japan. It was nice to see all my family and relatives again. We ate very well. I have documented the food I ate in a flickr album. It makes a pretty awesome slide show. *** We were in Sapporo one [...]

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Come see Damian Israel Shiner show this Saturday

…at Lizard Lounge. As some of you may know, I used to play Rock’n Roll music in my younger days (mind you, I am still young). This is my first public appearance as a bass player in a LONG time… Like 4 years. It’s an early show, start at 8 and goes till about 8:45 [...]

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Awesome Ukulele concert

Saw Jake Shimabukuro at The Center for Arts in Natick last night (event page, link may break). It was as good as I’d expected and more. He played his standard like While my Guitar Gently Weeps and Creazy G, to bunch from his new CD (which I bought at the concert). He did a version [...]

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Come hear this guy sing

This Thursday 17th, JoJo David has a concert at Robsham Theater at Boston College at 8:15 p.m. and he is one heck of a singer. His new CD is very good, and he has went through some challenging past. Let’s support our asian brother musician! I will be there (We’ve got baby sitter that night.. [...]

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Good mic?

Thinking about doing multi-tracking of my music… I was recommended Audio-Technica ATR25 – Stereo microphone. May be get this and Apple’s “GrageBand” working?

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Ukulele

In my trip to Hawai’i, the best thing happened. I discovered ukulele and I am not kidding. It is awesome. I got a uke from Island Music (which is located inside Hyatt Regency Hotel) in Waikiki. It is rather easy to play and I am addicted. I also bought couple ukulele book by Jumpin’ Jim [...]

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