Archive for June, 2009

Matt Monroe and Sinatra

A customer called Alan, a doctor from the UK who also enjoys music told me a great story as we got talking about backing tracks and famous singers…
Hi Kenny,
I will tell you a true story. Two young men were in the Army, both good singers and best of friends. They were in Hong Kong together [...]

Michael Jackson Backing Tracks

The music world lost one of its biggest stars yesterday, Michael Jackson.
Personally I wasn’t a big Michael Jackson fan. However I am a fan of high quality, well produced, creative music. 
I also admire live performers with great talent…and they don’t come much more talented than Michael Jackson. 
I have spoken to many fellow entertainers who attended Michael Jackson concerts [...]

Minidisc or mp3

Thanks to Pete for contacting me. He’s considering using backing tracks in his act and possibly using Minidisc…
Hello Ken
I am a complete novice at this, but I am a musician and have written my own songs and I need to put them on to disc. I am a dinosaur -I’ve been playing guitar and singing [...]

iTunes and DRM copyright protection

Kelly from the USA wants a custom backing track created. I told him to send me a copy of the original, I’ll have a listen to it, and give him a quote how much it’s going to be to create as a backing track.
He has the original song on his computer in his iTunes program [...]

Finding a cheap second hand drum machine

Tom from Leicester contacted me a while back asking for advice on ways he could set up some simple drum loops to play along with.

Now Tom has decided to buy a fully fledged dedicated drum machine and is looking for something that sounds good but is not over expensive…

Hey Kenny!

Can you help? I want a [...]