Guitar Lessons & …

A little Halloween riff for you. It’s a repeating groove in C# minor.
Think: Scary 80’s music

It dawned on me this week that I’m running behind schedule. My goal is not to just write 10 tunes by the end of the year, but also record them. I forgot to budget in time for the woes of recording. uggh.
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I booked the date for the performance debut of this music: […]

Wow, seven weeks into this project….
At the beginning of this week I noticed that the whole thrill of the Walbum project had waned. All of a sudden it was no longer fun. It was now a deadline and a responsibility…
Too bad for me. I’m booking at date for the concert debut of […]

Saturdays start early for me and I usually stay up too late the night before, so after my morning and afternoon lessons, I’m ready for a nap.
Last night, I took that nap during the World Series around 8:30pm. I set my timer for 10 minutes and let the words of Joe Buck lull me […]

Again, not the most productive week ever. My fall teaching schedule has me a little busier than I expected.
To take things up a notch, I purchased a copy of Sibelius to help with organizing my fledgling compositions. We’ll see how that works out this week, it’s due to arrive on Monday.
My playing is […]

I was cleaning out some files this weekend and found an old page from my website back in the day (2001). It’s a bunch of quotes from Phillip Tosido’s book: Zen Guitar, Mick Goodrick’s: The Advancing Guitarist & other miscellaneous sources:

“Combat discouragement with your desire to learn.”
Poetic imperfection
A bird does not ask, “Is my […]

As I mentioned in my last post on this subject, I think my arm injury is on it’s way out. My Occupational Therapist recommended a wrist brace for me when using the computer mouse and it’s been a phenomenal help. My fingers haven’t gone numb all week, and my hand doesn’t feel fatigued […]

I was kind of running in place this week.  I was doing stuff, but not really accomplishing anything.  I’m still stuck with my first tune, so I’ve decided to move on and come back to it later.
I took a couple of old tunes out and dusted them off a bit.  I have a lot of […]

I was cleaning out some files from the old site today, and I stumbled upon an old Halloween Greeting that Valeire & I did in 2002.
I think it was a glorified experiment of multi-tracking on the computer, and building a flash movie with audio streaming. I must have just learned flash when I put […]

I’ve been listening to Queen, On Fire Live at the Bowl. What an amazing album! Freddie Mercury is such a phenomenal musician. His studio recordings are incredible, but it’s truly something to hear him pull of all that great stuff live. Both he & Brian May spend some time playing with an Echoplex […]