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STEVE YEAGER
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Teaching Music
I'm so proud of this.
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May 25, 20231 min read


Chasing Windmills Part 1 Ending
This is the end of part 1. Tempo is 140 bpm now throughout. I move through combinations of 6/8, 2/4, 9/8 3/4, and 4/4. Spanish Guitar...
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May 25, 20231 min read


Chasing Windmills
This is the opening to my piece Chasing Windmills for solo Vibraphone. I started playing Vibes in 1976. There was very little published...
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Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet. Some of her work anticipated modern feminist verse and the...
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Mixing Strings
For this album, we recorded a string quintet in the current traditional fashion. Vln 1,2,3 Vla, Vcl Audience perspective. We had close...
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Percussion
I needed a D below middle C chime tube for a track today. Larry Barnhart has been a longtime friend. Percussion Services throughout the...
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Vibes Tracking
I'm closing in on final mixes on my Jazz record project All the parts are coming together Vibes, Piano, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Strings,...
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Guitar tracking sessions
I needed a variety of guitar sounds and styles on this record and am fortunate to have David Singley cover those parts beautifully....
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String Cues
Wonderful day at Creation Audio May 4th. We recorded some orchestral action underscore cues, and a couple really beautiful lyric type...
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Alternate Takes
This is a Bobby Peterson F Blues Alternate Piano Solo take from my Suite MJQ session Wild Sound Studios, Matthew Zimmerman Engineer -...
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Young and Foolish
Wait For Me Written and Produced by Reid Kennedy and Cameron Kinghorn I recorded and Mixed this song for them at Minneapolis Media...
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Stacking Sounds
Still relevant I talk about layering sounds together using virtual instruments in LOGIC X
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JFK Documentary Score
I worked with Filmmaker James K Lambert on the score for his documentary Conspiracy Theorists Lie. Here's a nice review of the work with...
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Early Improvisations
The poem "Clear Night" by Charles Wright set to music. I sampled this reading of his (by him) - composed and layered up some ideas...
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Marimba
A short fugue for Marimba and Strings. Jenny Klukken - Marimba https://www.jennyklukken.com/ Pre-production We used a spaced pair of AKG...
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Colors
I record a lot of different instruments and ensembles Great musicians over the years Lots of different compositions in various genres...
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May 25, 20231 min read


White Noise
The color white is produced when all colors of the visible spectrum are combined. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue,...
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May 25, 20231 min read


Suite MJQ
Milt Jackson passed away October 9th, 1999. I love his style and work with the Modern Jazz Quartet This is a 4 song suite I composed in...
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May 25, 20231 min read


MacPhail Music School
I started taking the MTC Bus from Anoka to Downtown Minneapolis on Saturdays to study music theory 1975-76. Classes in theory and harmony...
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May 25, 20231 min read


Since I Left You
Some of the best sampling, editing, production and arranging using the transformative clause in copyright. The Avalanches endured a...
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May 25, 20231 min read
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