A tune snapped into place this weekend. Well, at least some of it did.  It’s a simple progression that came out of my “spread-voiced” triads practice, and resides in sort of a big “4″ groove with atypical rhythmic hits. Now comes the hard part: development. I don’t have a melody yet and I don’t have [...]

Ray Bradbury writes in the Afterword of his novel Fahrenheit 451: “I didn’t know it, but I was literally writing a dime novel. In the spring of 1950 it cost me nine dollars and eighty cents in dimes to write and finish the first draft of The Fire Man which later became Fahrenheit 451. In [...]

My Fall/Winter project this year is to produce a Web Based Album. I’m calling it a “Walbum” for now (let me know if you have a better idea for a name). By the Dec. 31st, my goal is to write, record and publish 10 tunes for an online platform. Each song will have an accompanying [...]