Guitar Lessons & …

To celebrate our favorite six-stringed instrument, the Brookline Music School has decided to honor the guitar with it’s own month of fun & free activities. They will be showcasing Student Concerts, Faculty Clinics (with Guest Artists), a Garageband for the Guitarist Class, a Tour of the MFA’s Guitar Collection, & a Faculty Concert. The entire [...]

Thank you to everyone who participated in this year of guitar lessons. Members of the 2007-2008 Brendan Burns GUITARMY:

TuneFoolery received a nice article in the Cambridge Tab last week: Cambridge – Tunefoolery Concert Ensembles from Cambridge, a group of 50 musicians living with mental illness, has a simple yet powerful message: Emphasize people’s strengths and focus on abilities, not disabilities. In May, Tunefoolery members will share their music with the release of a [...]

I’m a little behind on my updates, but better late than never: I had a wonderful time at my Faculty Recital last month. Vessela Stoyanva, Valerie Thompson & Will Dick all provided themselves as great musicians and amazing associates for the evening. Thank you to all my students who attended. I’m so happy I could [...]

It’s that time of year again. Time for recitals! Excitement and nerves meet, and then we play. To honor my students dedication and hard work I will be having a recital of my own. Last year I showcased music for the WAlbum, this year I will be featuring music that I’ve been studying, writing and [...]

The saga of online tablature continues with Musicnotes.com new site: MXTabs.net. The New York Times had an article in yesterday’s paper mentioning that Musicnotes has reached an agreement with the Harry Fox agency to publish music in tab format on MXTabs in exchange for a portion of ad revenue. The MXTabs website describes their new [...]

Valerie & I had some fun this week. We put together a semi-elaborate April Fools prank and launched her new website. I’m really excited about her new design and proud that I could help make it happen. After learning so much about WordPress for her site, I think I’m going to do my own redesign [...]

A week has past since I finished the WAlbum project. With what little distance I have from the experience, here are some thoughts: OBSERVATIONS: This was a lot of work. I’m proud of some things and embarrassed of others. I learned a lot about myself and how I work. It was great fun and very [...]

Some Highlights: The Gamelan: Learning a new piece from Alit changed the way I think about music. Playing the Museum of Science with Robots, Kresge Hall with Alit, & an outdoor concert at Copley Square were all memories I will cherish. Tim Miller: I had a great year studying with Tim. He helped out a [...]

Guitar Player Magazine has a new feature they call: Guitar Player TV. I’ve only looked at a couple videos, but it looks pretty good. The design is a little clunky, but it’s a start. Check it out. —- Consider this my official push for Powertabs.net: This is a site with midi encoded tablature. They have [...]