Book Roundup - 2019
Note: This blog post originally was published on the now defunct Beemo blog in 2019. So I read a lot. I'm usually about 50-50 fiction...
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Matt Juliano
- Feb 4, 2022
- 5 min
Dissection of an Ass Kicking
"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed" Dan Montano,...
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 31, 2022
- 4 min
100 Days of Quartet
Jan 31, 2020 - I'm working on a new piece for the LMP. It's a quartet by French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer who, in contrast to other...
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Matt Juliano
- Jul 18, 2021
- 4 min
Cogs Turning All Around
07/18/2021 So I'm at a creative crossroads. Or rather at an intersection where multiple crossings of roads are happening. (Like that...
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Recording 01/28 - The Final Push
01/28/2021 The session I had been dreading had arrived. The Trio section of the Fodor quartet has 4 really difficult passages in it, and...
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 22, 2021
- 2 min
Recording 01/22 - Righting My Wrongs
Today I just wanted to touch up some sixteenth notes sections of the Fodor Allegro where the Violin 2 and Viola are doubling /...
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 15, 2021
- 5 min
Recording 01/15 - Scaling an Abrupt Difficulty Spike
Yikes. The second hardest section in this quartet is in the viola part of the Trio section [1]. It's only 8 measures long, but it's fast...
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 8, 2021
- 1 min
Recording 01/8 - Last Thread of the Allegro
I had another off day. Not a lot off, just a little. Fortunately the part I was playing, the violin 1 of the Fodor Quartet first movement...
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 17, 2020
- 4 min
Recording 12/17 - Vengeance is Mine
This was the recording performance I was trying for last time. I was rather irritated with myself after I laid an egg on the Fodor...
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 11, 2020
- 7 min
LMP - Practice and Preparation
The key to any successful recording is being prepared. Recording is draining and a touch stressful so any holes in your prep work will...
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 11, 2020
- 3 min
LMP Recording 12/11 - Know When You're Beaten
If my first rule of an efficient recording session is "Be Prepared," the second is "Know When You're Beaten." I played the mandolin 2...
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 4, 2020
- 3 min
LMP Recording 12/4 - Time is the Enemy
Today went pretty well though, again, I overestimated how quickly I could record a piece. It was a shorter session today, and I think...
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Matt Juliano
- Nov 25, 2020
- 7 min
LMP - Concerns and Considerations
I'm finding this task (the Lazarus Music Project / LMP) to be daunting, for several reasons. There are a lot of practical and technical...
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Matt Juliano
- Nov 22, 2020
- 5 min
Launching the Lazarus Music Project
November 22, 2020 Resurrecting lost musical compositions Historical Communication One of the definitive marks of humanity is the ability...
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Matt Juliano
- Nov 20, 2020
- 6 min
LMP - Recording 11/20 - No Slammed Doors
I had an overly ambitious plan for my first cut at recording. My agenda going in was to do the A and B section of Maple Leaf Rag on all...
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Matt Juliano
- Jul 17, 2018
- 3 min
Hello World
July 17, 2018 I was looking for a challenge. Beemo was in a holding pattern waiting for the final files for our full length album and we...
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Matt Juliano
- Jul 6, 2018
- 6 min
Assembling an Album in Geologic Time - Part I
NOTE: This post was originally published on mynameisbeemo.com on July 7, 2018 There's been a debate about whether Neanderthals had...
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Matt Juliano
- Jul 6, 2018
- 4 min
Assembling an Album in Geologic Time - Part II
NOTE: This post was originally published on mynameisbeemo.com on July 7, 2018 Neanderthals assembling an album, continued. Part I: I.,...
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Matt Juliano
- May 5, 2017
- 6 min
"It's a mandolin, Sir"
Note: This post was originally published on mynameisbeemo.com on May 6, 2017 I often get asked at shows what instrument I’m playing. My...
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