Bob Wiseman

student: here’s my cd.    instructor: thanks but maybe you should give it to someone else.   student: won’t you take it?   instructor: you can leave it but no […]

piano student: how do you make a B part? me: you just do something else but vary it from the A part. piano student: how do you do that? me: […]

Dylan's 77th Birthday

I was asked to play 3 songs Wednesday May 24th at Hugh’s room – a show of artists each picking 3 Bob Dylan songs to play. Thought I would do […]

there was a guy who didn’t now how to play an instrument, didn’t know how to make people feel respected and didn’t know how to share. he ran a record […]

In The Usual Suspects Benicio Del Torro apparently tried to have an accent that couldn’t be easily placed. That’s the same goal many musicians have in their playing to sound […]

Practice Technique

When I was a teenager I played hours on the piano and my father would come home from work and watch tv lying on the couch nearby and turn up […]

A man who was very thin skinned had a job where he gave feedback to other people about their creative projects and if they didn’t like his opinions he became […]

the mother of the 3 year old who was bashing the low end of the piano, called out to him to stop playing like that because it wasn’t very nice. […]

The sound of one’s own mind speaking to oneself over and over sometimes seems like a given. Turn it off, listen instead to whatever else is existing around you sans […]