Kabinopus, Thank so much for sharing your music and part of your life; I find both very interesting. You play with no music and no need to stare down at your fingers; beautiful, that is a good indication that the music is coming from within, from the heart.

I find your stories and opinions about your country and your life interesting. If you have the time please post more of your playing and your stories.

John C.

Kabin,

Thanks for that, I loved the very short time I spent in Russia, everyone should go and see for themselves, I went to a video market and every bit of software was there all copies for around 3 dollars everything appeared to be the same price, the Moscow underground was incredible. It's no use me telling you what it's like you need to go and see. Sorry to hear about your KBs problems, we are spoilt both USA and UK some of us moan and we don't know how lucky we are. Keep posting Kabin, love to hear more.


Just think if Russia made an arranger, cross between a Sherman tank and a mediastation

Tony

Hello, guys!

Today I met two musicians and I’m a little bit overloaded with impressions.

My first meeting was at 2:00 PM. I met a musician I never knew before. He plays a lot of instruments but mostly he plays an electric guitar. He doesn’t do it for a living although he made some money playing in restaurants in the past. He had a cup of tea in a café and then we went to his house.

He said that he used to play the saxophone when he was in the army but now he doesn’t get enough money to buy one. He’s doing something with tv-antennas for a living.

I think he plays the guitar very well but he’s more into rock-n-roll, deep purple etc and I always had more feelings for more romantic music.

So I came home about 3:30 PM and I remembered that today another guitarist was to play a small concert. His name is Evgeny Pavlenko. I had gone to his concert before and after that I contacted him via internet – I shoved him my videos on YouTube.

Today’s concert was a very small one. It was in a small apartment that looked like a flat. Besides me there were about 8 people mostly elderly persons.

Evgeniy Pavlenco plays the classical guitar. He’s a guitar teacher. He plays popular songs and songs of his own. After his performance I came to him and he greeted me and gave me a hug. He said that we and his wife had watched my videos and they liked them. It was a big pleasure that he acknowledged me as a musician. I said to him that I prefer a classical guitar to any other guitars. We agreed that we would stay in touch. Like me he wants to find a way to make music as a profession. He said that he got tired teaching music.

You can visit his site: http://guitarrra.narod.ru/

I'm a little bit tired so I'm too lazy to recheck what I wrote so if something doesn't make any sense just ignore that )

Evgeny Pavlenko

Kabin,

I'll send you $100 US. You keep $50 and you send me back a big supply of Vodka for my son, and a big supply of McDonalds for me OK.

Thank you for all the info.

Here in the USA we do not make anything either. Everything comes from China, Mexico, India, Japan, Korea and places I've never heard of.

We have lots of people making lots of money here in the USA that go around taking houses away from families and giving them to the Rothchilds, Rochefellars, JP Morgans and the other theives over in France and Italy who own the "Federal Reserve."

I can say what I want here in the USA, they won't arrest me for free speech. what they will do is just shoot me or get me on a plane crash like they did to Bill and Hillary's friends when they were the honchos in the big house. No ha ha on this one.

But you better watch what you say because in the movies about Russia the KGB watches everybody and puts them in Jail.

What a world eh?

God Bless America Brickboo and timber framed buildings.

Thank you for sharing your musical talent with us. It is so sad to know that good music is under-valued in today's world. You play well and I wish you much success and happiness. I hope our two countries can become better friends. Despite our differences, we have so much in common.

All the best,

Dave Rice

Kabinopus... thank you for sharing your music ...
one of the great things about S-Z is that we can communicate with people all over the world through the international language of music ...

Kabinopus - If I can make a small suggestion...

Take a listen to your recordings, and try to think of any pro recordings you have where the piano (or any lead instrument) is so loud, you can barely hear the accompaniment, especially the drums.

It is always tempting to make our OWN part loud enough to easily hear OVER the accompaniment, but when you listen to pro recorded music, while you can always hear the lead, it is still INSIDE the mix. This is one of the things that arranger playing makes you do differently to being in a band. In a band, you have YOUR monitor, and can easily hear yourself (hopefully!) over the band, but out front will be balanced (again, hopefully!) either by the band's general volume, or the soundman mixing it.

But an arranger, you ONLY get to hear the final mix, and must get used to hearing yourself somewhat quieter than you would in a band with a monitor.

I enjoy your playing, and hope you will take this as constructive criticism.

Record yourself using the MIDI recorder in your arranger, then mix it by turning down the lead until it 'sits' in the mix better. Then copy that lead volume to the Registration, and play it again, and listen to how you hear it now. If you can get used to not having what YOU play as the way loudest element, you can sound VERY polished. After all, you paid good money for a great arranger... allow it to shine too!

Keep it up! Great to hear youngsters posters here.