Lessons

Practicing a scale or a musical gesture is really no different than practicing yoga or carpentry or internally trying to change the way you react to something that’s otherwise regrettable. […]

Mary Jo lives a few houses over. She has done a lot of work in her life improving the world of refugees to Canada. She’s in her late 70s or […]

I watched a guy on Instagram play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue by touching various triggers of the opening clarinet line. His skill touching each trigger was accurate and it correctly […]

I opted for an internet telephone some years ago. What was good was all the calls came as gmail attachments and to this day I have messages in the early […]

I transposed a couple more songs onto piano that originally were written on guitar. Glad I play more than one instrument. Maybe this is why I’m enjoying the effort learning […]

Taking care of my friend’s dog, a greyhound. 14 years old which apparently means in one’s 90s in human years. When we walk outside, (sung in Meghan Trainor’s voice)it is […]

There was another psychological experiment I read about that stayed with me. In London, by Liverpool Station they had an actor lie on the ground and moan as if in […]

There is a pattern I’m practicing, I like the way it sounds, I like the math of what it does to my thinking. My wishes that it becomes a move […]

Most of the materials I located about creativity in music and business, tend to position these times as though there are no rules. As though only now, in recent years, […]

a student writes in their journal that they are trying to quit smoking and that they keep failing then realized they also keep practicing new scales on piano and do […]