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On this page you’ll find my posts or ramblings about music. Some of it educational, some rants about the current environment in music and other topics that may be of interest. These are my personal thoughts after spending 40+ yrs of performing and teaching. You may agree with it of not. It really doesn’t matter to me. Hopefully, these posts will help someone out on their way to becoming a musician.
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Sonatas and Partitas..
I saw a post recently about not understanding what these have to with learning to play jazz. Years…
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Gone, just like that…
I recently released a song, “Gone, just like that…” It’s something I recorded a few years back…
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Big Clunky Chords….
There seems to be some kind of thing happening in regards to teaching chord voicings for the…
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The obsession with transcribing….
I’ve been lucky. While a student I was lucky to have been able to study privately…
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Modes, scales, arpeggios….
This seems to be the big question in the online forums these days. Do you need…
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What is hip…
Good music is hip, it’s that simple. Perhaps the biggest request from students is how to play outside…