Sometimes I take a break from whatever I’m doing at the Tranzac and walk down the street to the Future Bakery, drink tea and watch people then head back to […]

The Blind Boys Of Alabama cameo the radio singing House of The Rising Sun. My daughter demanded I change the channel to the hits station I said no you’ve never […]

For her final project the international student wrote that songwriting presumes there is something wrong to repair and that that premise was more interesting than the variety of styles or […]

The old teacher said the end goal is to stay involved with improvising and get more deeply into it or to put it another way the ending of an improvisation […]

Last year there was a young man in the songwriting class that didn’t know what to do with the journal request. They were asked to keep daily journals to help […]

On a roll last few nights with fantastic dreams. In the latest I was positioned to meet Bach but Bach was in the form of some type of underwater creature […]

maybe they follow maybe they react with non sequiturs. more and more, taking the musical experience of improvising and re-contextualizing it in non musical life. no difference. the art of […]

Am trying to plan out my songwriting course, specifically how to attempt teaching it online. In one exercise, I asked the students last year to take 20 minutes and eavesdrop […]

Idea for a documentary. Interviewing musicians like Great Bob Scott, who’s drumming virtuosity I find staggering, and inquiring about their conscious mind. What it is doing when they play because […]

An older artist told me she has never understood music and spends a lot of time trying to make sense out of it. She watches videos on great musicians and […]