This is an amazing collection of photographs put into a slide show with audio explaining the meaning of music to New Orleans natives and how musicians are still trying to keep the city's cultural heart beating. It's such a shame what happened to our … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2006
Music Industry Now Targets Tablature Sites
First it was services that provided music, then it was sites that offered lyrics. Now the music industry has trained its legal guns upon guitar tablature, and several of them have already been shuttered. I forsee all of this ending in a pretty ugly … [Read more...]
A Sick Display Of The RIAA
You need to read this BoingBoing article because it's important as a musician to understand the values of the RIAA. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you share these values... or not. … [Read more...]
Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 08-14-06
Topics covered: Distinctions exercise, certainty and uncertainty. Download: Absolute Pitch Ear Training Podcast 08-14-06 … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Secret To Hypnotic Influence
So you might have an idea of what Hypnotic Influence could look like. You might realize that effective influence is a very attainable skill. But are you willing to do what it takes? Begin by asking yourself the most motivation question of all: … [Read more...]
Five Common Musicianship Problems – Which Ones Do You Want To Overcome?
Most of the music coaching and teaching I do involves information gathering. It's important for me to clearly identify what musical challenges my students are having so that I don't fix something that ain't broke and so I impact the problem in a way … [Read more...]
Deceptive Cadences
The progression from V to I has the name "authentic cadence" and from IV to I, "plagal cadence." A "deceptive cadence" is understood to mean the substitution for the expected progression, V-I, of the progressions V-VI or V-IV. The effect is strong … [Read more...]
How To Secretly Seduce Your Prospects
Recently, a friend asked me if I ever go into that state between being in a dream and being awake. He mentioned how in that state you begin to visualize amazing things, and how you can really feel the intense excitement of your dreams. He said that … [Read more...]
How wonderful…
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -- Anne Frank … [Read more...]
Duke Jordan, 84, Jazz Pianist Who Helped to Build Bebop, Dies
Duke Jordan, a pianist whose work with the saxophonist Charlie Parker endures in the jazz canon, died on Tuesday in Valby, Denmark, a suburb of Copenhagen. He was 84, and he had lived in self-imposed exile from the United States since 1978, … [Read more...]
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