Today I figured out how to easily turn the rock band drum set for Wii into a MIDI drum controller:
I did this with Junxion, a program that allows you to transform USB and wireless game controller input into MIDI data. I’ve seen demos of other MIDI rock band instruments online, but with the Wii instruments [...]
Now that I’m realizing how easy it is to share music via embedded youtube videos, I’ll start discussing music:
Here is a great video of Chucho Valdes playing one of my all time favorite songs, Ponle La Clave. Here is the second half:
I skipped to that so you wouldn’t miss the awesome drumming. But here is [...]
I put all of the 2005 Explanation album online. It plays when you visit the site and you can also download all of the mp3s.
http://theexplanation.com.
I played drums in the Explanation from 2003-2005 and recorded the first five tracks of this album.
Now that The Explanation’s over I’m in a new band, Samantha with former Exp guitarist [...]
Call me a Raul Pineda fan.
I’ve been obsessed with Chucho Valdes’s track Ponle La Clave from Live at the Village Vanguard ever since I first heard an MP3 of it in college (mislabeled as ‘ponte la clave’). I later bought the album Live at the Village Vanguard, which is great, and so is Valdes’s similar [...]