Ones and Zeros
I work a lot with digital samples. Wonder when there will be a Margaret Atwood or Salmon Rushdie Filter for writing? A Scorsese filter or Lina Wertmuller plug-in for film […]
Bob Wiseman
Piano Lessons: Slowing down
Sometimes when learning something new one reaches a saturation point. People just have to slow down, “do it at the speed you actually can do it without mistakes”, said the […]
Cissy Houston
In the 70s I had a favourite record Surprises by Herbie Mann featuring Cissy Houston and ever since Whitney Houston emerged and she was Cissy’s daughter I compared her to […]
End of The Year Music Lessons Sale
Sign up this month 2 lessons free! (save over $100) I’ll tell you about some of the people I’m currently teaching. There’s 2 classical musicians who want to improvise, there’s […]
What Probably Happened
“Ok guys there’s this skinny white boy named Rider and he leads 6 little talking puppies who have backpacks strapped to them containing amazing gizmos from pop-up x-ray machines to miniature […]
About Those Piano Lessons
Some people have a talent for driving fast cars some for cooking – me I can show people how to write music, not necessarily brilliant music but good enough to remedy certain […]
Jah Would Never Give The Power To A Copyright Infringement
This singer, Jacob (killer) Miller is an amazing singer. His style incorporates a delay in his singing and I bet it came about from enjoying how delays were an instrumental […]
Preference for Teaching Aliens
I’ve taught kids a little but they don’t show up wanting to study as much as fulfilling an idea their parents have so it’s uncertain whether they do the work […]
Keith Jarrett playing Holiday Inn lounge
Watched a B movie on Netflix the other night. It starred Denzel Washington. I think it was called Man On Fire. Wow what a stinker but the cast included Giancarlo […]
Keeping Secrets
Don’t play your work to people if it isn’t finished because if they react negatively it might feel like you got sneezed on. Just because you are growing a new […]