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This music education project has taken a long time to get rolling. There were a lot of life hurdles — not the least of which was a big move that upended everything.
Finally though, I'm in the studio doing what I love: Making music. It has been a long time.
I'm a soloist, right? so you'd think that being self-isolated for a month wouldn't be a big deal.
I want to be a TERRIBLE MAGICIAN. And you can help.
My goal here is to do something that amazes you, and then show you exactly how you can do it, too. Yeah, so it's not magic. It's music.
For everyone who has been supporting behind the scenes, thank you. For everyone else, here's your chance strengthen your brain and the brains of our kids. If you can offer support even at the Applause or Ovation levels, you'll be making a BIG difference.
Thank you.
(And check out that end card music... my patrons got a behind-the-scenes preview of it earlier this week before the post went public!)
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A lot of YouTubers have a particular bit of bed music and an end card theme that they run on each video. You've heard this at the end of Shadows of Bronze videos and probably noticed it with some of my favorite channels, like 8-Bit Keys, Minute Physics, and Perifractic's Retro Recipies.
The music on each channel is part of its identity. And each of these channels happens to be hosted by a musician. David Murray, the 8-Bit Guy himself, is pretty talented in creating multitrack recordings from his array of vintage keyboards, although he features the excellent chip music of Anders Enger Jensen on both of his channels as well as in his Planet X game soundtracks (which are excellent). Minute Physics, created and hosted by fiddler Henry Reich, picked music from bassist Nathaniel Schroeder as the bed music for his highly addictive lessons about... the nature of everything.
How to B ready to make a handbell video? Polishing the bells, of course. Especially this B5.
So, what's going on here? Over the last long while I've been working with forzandoArts assemble a recording studio suitable for handbell videos. I'll be showing some of the behind-the-scenes of that to patrons as we go, but what's important is that the studio is finally ready.