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September was my first month as a self-employed music teacher, promoter, and performer. During this past month I've spent a lot of time learning hard lessons, enjoying windfall, learning more hard …
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Recently I announced that I’m revising and reorganizing my entire archive of blog posts, which has reached the volume of a small book. This is the first in a new series of posts called Archive …
photo by kabacchi Over at his excellent homemade distribution channel (aka blog), Matt Blick just posted an amazing article that you’ll want to take a moment to read. It highlights that …
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photo by Juliana Coutinho A few weeks ago now, Matt Blick and I agreed to hold one another accountable for writing every day. The arrangement has been really helpful to me, so I thought I’d share the …
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photo by fhashemi You Might not have an Idea Every Day. There will be times during your songwriting career when you don’t seem to have anything visionary to share. Such times can be unnerving. Many …
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I couldn't sleep last night, so I dug around and found some old video footage of master harmonist Ted Greene improvising two- and three-voice counterpoint in the style of Bach on a Telecaster. It's a …
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