I made friends with some heavy characters in high school, I think I sought them out partly because I had spent 9 years in Jewish Schools – couldn’t take it […]

I saw a certain producer abuse engineers. It was disturbing.  Hissy fits and anger management. All entitlement, all the time. The minimum wage engineers would lose jobs if they responded […]

The new piece is coming along. The trick is whatever the right hand does the left must also do. It’s a challenge of one’s thinking, of one’s habits but the […]

Anthony from Sault St. Marie traveled to Burlington to sit at the feet of the great accordionist Snips Walker. Snips taught many people who achieved greatness like vibes player Ben […]

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drummers

sometimes the lock doesn’t work and you have to futz with the key to make it turn right. sometimes people say the fingering has to be this way for some […]

I saw a comedian choke on stage at the Edinburgh festival fifteen years ago while playing near there with Jane SIberry. The guy was making jokes that people didn’t laugh […]

There was a song I once heard that was impossible to figure out. It sounded like three hands playing simultaneously on the piano. And then, as they say lo and […]

There’s a trick to doing trills. Or maybe the word trills is incorrect. It’s a technique thing I saw Casey Sokal do when I was at York in the 80s. […]