the very top of the piano often gets selected for that reason, not for it’s pitch. it hates that because it’s all about keeping its pitch. certain people pick up […]

Had no patience for as a kid, had no interest in the lyrics, just like most of my current students. Now the lyrics impress me as much as trying to […]

Standing in the fluorescent, reeking-of-bleach-cafeteria, four women (two middle aged and two seniors) occupying all the positions behind the grill and cash register. The math on minimum wage and a […]

Student asked me for help because they have nothing to say in a song. Guess my job is explaining that this situation also is a song and they just said […]

Kale chips, salt, nutritional yeast. Left hand, G, perpetual peace Replay, loop, symmetrical tricks Apples, juiced, this blood sugar fix Driver, screams, pedestrian runs Protest, cops, tasers on stun Naming, […]

Part of driving a car in a big city is adjusting to endless hostility and selfishness. Surprising to catch a break at Bartlett and Davenport near rush hour the other […]

Each of the songwriting classes I’m teaching begin with a student playing us a song that changed their life or significantly inspired them. Recently we listened to Imagine by John […]

I played the students Aretha Franklin’s I Never Loved A Man ( the way that I love you) because I thought, like me, many would have assumed the song was […]

started teaching the new student chopin by ear. imitate me kid, just do this and then she just did that. next i said ok, just do that and so she […]

bacterium are single cells covered by a membrane which keeps the outside world out and the inside world in. sounds very familiar.bacteria are the oldest life forms on the earth. […]