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Get Your Own Mic

LAMA — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:04:36 +0000

Good thing you can’t smell the microphone in these videos.

Kudos to Audio-Technica, who in 30 seconds or so, reminds us of what it’s like to use a venue’s microphone:

Thanks to success of the first vid, they produced a follow up:

If you can, get your own mic!

-LAMA Staff

Top 5 Guitar Pedal Demo Videos

LAMA — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:35:12 +0000

If you don’t remember trying to buy guitar pedals in the 80s and 90s (or weren’t even born yet), let’s refresh your memory: First you would grab your favorite guitar magazine and then read about how amazing each new pedal sounded. Next you’d go down to your local music store and hope that they just so happened to carry the particular one you wanted so you could try it out for a few minutes. Golly, such hard times for musicians! Enter YouTube…where anyone can check out virtually any instrument by watching the video demo about it. Guitarists! We’ve gathered a few great guitar pedal demos here…what do you think — make you want to buy one? Have you seen any others we should definitely watch? Let us know in the comments below.

1) Way Huge “Swollen Pickle Fuzz”

2) Analog Man “Chorus”

3) MXR Carbon Copy Delay pedal demo M-169

4) Real McCoy Custom RMC6 Wheels of Fire Wah

5) Electro Harmonix Micro Synth

-LAMA Staff

Bill Murray Song

LAMA — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:23:01 +0000

Do you “keep it Bill Murray?” Sweatshop Union certainly does!

Happy Friday!

-LAMA Staff

The 5 Best Bass Guitar Solos On The Planet?

LAMA — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:32:30 +0000

Save your guitar solos, your drum solos, and your vocal solos for another day. This is about that real low end…the bass! These are our 5 favorite bass solo videos on the planet. Let us know what you think! Turn that subwoofer up (or down):

1) John Entwistle from The Who Bass Solo at Royal Albert Hall

2) Billy Sheehan Bass Solo

3) Jason Newsted Bass Solo w/ Metallica

4) Victor Wooten Bass Solo

5) Bootsy Collins Bass Solo

Was that enough bass for you? Look for The 5 Best Bass Solos Part 2: Return Of The Thump soon!

You can also check out the instructors and tips/info for the LA Music Academy bass department here: http://bit.ly/Hk4kD9.

-LAMA Staff

The Dark Side of Oz [Video]

LAMA — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:56:04 +0000

screenshot from Dark Side of Oz

If you are not familiar with the developments over the years, Pink Floyd’s famous album and The Wizard of Oz, arguably, are in sync. For years, musicians, college kids and music lovers of all ages have tried syncing the album and movie, but not with 100% success. Enter Brooklyn audio engineer Bryan Pugh, who geeks out about all things music/audio and made what appears to be this perfectly synced version, called “Dark Side of Oz.”

Sit back, relax and enjoy!

-LAMA Staff

World Premiere – New Mozart

LAMA — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:24:40 +0000

Mozart’s new “single” is here, lol. Seriously, this is pretty darn cool…from the LA Times:

Experts in Austria say they have identified a piano composition that they believe was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when the composer was as young as 10 years old…wrote the piece around 1767.

The newly discovered piece can be viewed at the link below; Allegro Molto in C Major as performed by pianist Florian Birsak. Drop it like it’s hot, Mozart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoTfvakQZXA&feature=youtu.be

-LAMA Staff

Do You Have Better Pitch Than These #Dogs?

LAMA — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:53:55 +0000

This video making the rounds on social networks stars dogs (and one fearless bird) playing the piano by ear:

Wow. How many hours of training did this take?

-LAMA Staff