N.E.D.i Great iPhone App

Great new iPhone app for learning new software on your mac. Watch on the iPhone. I have used N.E.D for two years to learn Pro Tools 7&8, Logic 7&8, and Reason 4.


The above pics are screen shots taken from the iPhone using the actual N.E.D.i app on the iPhone. So far the program is working great. Great Job. If you use NED teaching tutorials get this it really is a great idea.

Thats My King

Hannabach Flamrnco 827 HT Strings

I put a set of Hannabach Flamrnco 827 HT Strings on the DeVoe, I normally play with DAddario EJ 45c’s and Titanium Trebeles. I wanted to try something new so I’m trying these out. Will write more later. The treble strings are a light red color.

Sunsets With U Nature

Time

Bens Muse

Ben was over yesterday and we played around in the studio and hear’s what we came up with

Record Vocoder vid

The Posied Guitarist

This was a fantastic course that was tought by Jerald Harscher find out about it at The Poised Guitarist The course took about 6 hours and was very informative about how the body moves and what is truly necicary to understand about how were all movers espically guitar players.

The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive twelve-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
This book links creativity to spirituality by showing how to connect with the creative energies of the universe, and has, in the four years since its publication, spawned a remarkable number of support groups for artists dedicated to practicing the exercises it contains. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
This program consists of segments from the author’s book of the same name (Tarcher, 1992). She recommends two ongoing activities that will conquer blocks and self-destructive tendencies: morning pages and artist’s dates. Morning pages are three pages of writing, performed daily, about anything at all. This exercise overcomes the writer’s internal censor and makes writing habitual, she claims. The artist’s date is a weekly block of two hours spent observing, experiencing, and sensing. The balance of the recording describes how the artist can overcome human tendencies such as jealousy, fear, and addiction. This abridgment leaves much to be desired. In her introduction, Cameron states that the audio is an interactive abridgment of her 12-week program. There is nothing interactive about it, however. The sound quality is poor, and the content is similar to the many available 12-step programs. In that sense, it is redundant and will appeal to a very small audience. Not recommended.?Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Ed. Lib.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information,

How to Learn the Alexander Technique: A Manual for Students &What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body: The Practical Application of Body Mapping & the Alexander Technique to Making Music

A primer for students of the Alexander Technique, a well-known method for improving freedom and ease of movement and physical coordination. This book provides the first authoritative account of William Conable’s concept, Body Mapping, the study of how our ideas about our bodies affect our experience and movement. This concept is integrated with a lucid explanation of the Alexander Technique that clarifies and simplifies the task of teaching and learning the Techique.
The practical application of Body Mapping and the Alexander Technique to making music. Body Mapping is the study of how our concepts of our bodies affect our experience and movement. The Alexander Technique is a method for improving freedom and ease of movement and physical coordination. This book is a graphic presentation of ideas drawn from these two disciplines that is of great benefit to music students and teachers and others. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Barbara Conable is an Alexander teacher of 23 years experience and a teaching member of the North American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique and Alexander Technique International. She has taught at the Ohio State University and the Cincinnati Conservatory and is now President of Andover Educators. She is an active poet and the author and editor of several books about the Alexander Technique.

Fight For It

Fight For It
09/21/2009
Be kind, for everyone you know is facing a great battle.

A true community is something you will have to fight for. You’ll have to fight to get one, and you’ll have to fight to keep it afloat. But you fight for it like you bail out a life raft during a storm at sea. You want this thing to work. You need this thing to work. You can’t ditch it and jump back on the cruise ship. This is the church; this is all you have. Without it, you’ll go down. Or back to prison.

Suddenly all those “one another’s” in Scripture make sense. Love one another. Bear one another’s burdens. Forgive one another. Acts of kindness become deeply meaningful because we know we are at war. Knowing full well that we are all facing battles of our own, we give one another the benefit of the doubt. Leigh isn’t intentionally being distant from me – she’s probably under an assault. That’s why you must know each other’s stories, know how to “read” one another. A word of encouragement can heal a wound; a choice to forgive can destroy a stronghold. You never knew your simple acts were so weighty. Its what we’ve come to call “lifestyle warfare.”

We check in regularly with one another, not out of paranoia (“Do you still like me?”), but in order to watch over each other’s hearts. “How are you doing?” But be careful about what you are looking for from community. For if you bring your every need to it, it will collapse. Community is no substitute for God. I left our annual camping trip absolutely exhausted and disappointed. As we drove home, I realized it was because I was looking to them to validate me, appreciate me, fill this aching void in my heart. Only once in ten days did I take time to be away with God, alone. I was too busy trying to get my needs met through them. Which is why community cannot live without solitude.

(Waking The Dead , 199, 200 )

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God & Dog

Sunsets With U Single

Sonoma Pic

She fell asleep in my arms.

Record from Propellerhead

Tried out Record from Propellerhead v1.1. I think they did a great job. If your a Reason user it’s only 149.00 to get a full copy. What I really liked at this point was how good the audio sounded. I used a Shure KSM 141 Mic with the Apogee Duet and just the Record application and it sounded great. It looks like it will take some time to get used to the layout and mixing consle/window. I like that it links so well with Reason 4.

“TThe 45 Lessons Life Taught Me”.

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old
THE PLAIN DEALER Cleveland, Ohio

“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote “The 45 Lessons Life Taught Me”.
It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.” My ‘odometer’ rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.

8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.

12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye, but don’t worry. God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you, no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words,”In five years, will this matter?”

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is not because of anything you did or didn’t do.

35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved and were loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still ‘a gift’.

Washington DC

New Wine now on iTunes

Just go to iTunes and type in Victor Tarassov and look for New Wine or clink this link.

Its Icky Back East

Half Moon Bay

Point Lobos CA Pics

Possible CD Cover

Monterey Friday Am

Beautiful day in Monterey

Some Pics from Monterey Yesterday 9.3.09

DeVoe Nut Job

The DeVoe revived a small nut job at Gryphon in Palo Alto thanks Dave.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard Review and Updates

Looks like it was a fairly easy install. I did however have to do it two times. The first time I think it timed out because I was not near the computer. It did install w/o any trouble the second time. It did free up some space and seems to work well. Will post more later. Some pics of the update that Apple sent and screen shots below.

Update:  There are definitely some comparability issues with some of the music programs in Logic Pro 9 as well as Pro Tools 8.0.1  Spectrsonics Programs and a few of Digidesigns programs were not stable and Logic froze up a bit.  May switch back to Leopard.  WAS able to get Spectronics things working well again.  There was a problem though when I would shut down Trilogy.  Reason 4 needed to have the disk installed again and all the passwords stuff entered.  It seems thought to work.  Looks like I will be doing some reformatting on my flight.

Pro Tools Updated to 8.0.1

Updated Pro Tools 8.0 to 8.0.1 hope with the new updates it will work with Snow Leopard.