Check out one of my favorite music business blogs: New Formats for Music Lifestyles: I have been traveling quite a bit this past year speaking about the Future of Music at industry conferences, tradeshows and other music related events. The topic of … [Read more...]
Graham At His Keys
This is a picture of me as Elton John at my Halloween Party. :) … [Read more...]
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson. Johnson was blinded at an early age. The story goes that his stepmother threw lye in his face in a fit of rage. His home burned down in '45 and having nowhere else to go, he lived in … [Read more...]
Holiday Ear Training
If you're anything like me, then you're being pulled in a thousand different directions during the holiday season. Where does ear training fit into your list of priorities? For me, ear training is what I do first thing in the morning... well, that … [Read more...]
Dante’s Denouement
On October 22, 2004, twenty-three volunteers came together to create this film in a 24-hour extreme filmmaking competition. Watch the movie: Dante's Denouement What a blast this was! I had less than a week to compose the score based on a story … [Read more...]
Ernst Terhardt Writes About Absolute pitch
Dr. Terhardt was kind enough to allow me to reprint his research on absolute pitch. The term absolute pitch (AP) denotes a person's ability to form an internal auditory image of any musical tone labeled by an appropriate symbol (note, letter) such … [Read more...]
Obstacles To Peak Performance
It is important to be stress-free and relaxed to "make sense" of all the input we receive from the senses. The middle brain, which is also called the Mammalian Brain, controls the emotions, sexuality and the immune and hormonal systems. It is the … [Read more...]
MasterWriter Review
Here is my review of MasterWriter, a collection of writing tools for songwriters. First of all, I give MasterWriter two big thumbs up. It has been an invaluable songwriting tool for me since the day I bought just over a year ago. MasterWriter … [Read more...]
Rock and Roll is Here to Pay
The average consumer is not motivated by arguments about copyright infringement, nor should they be... Copyright has never been simply an exclusive contract to exploit the fruits of one's creativity, but rather a balancing act, weighing the legal … [Read more...]
The Golden Mean in Harmony Part 1
If you ride chaos all the way out to its edge, you find beauty and order... and the Blues Chaos: complete disorder and confusion; behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions; the … [Read more...]