Last week when Taylor Swift was in town, one of my students wrote about how amazing she is. How original and unique and how she has created something no one […]

Last week a student asked me if it was true in the past they arrested ordinary people for downloading. I said yes and they even fined them thousands of dollars […]

I posted the last video for the music business course. Shared three stories which became three riddles. The story of the fictitious band The Obvious which pop music journalist Laura […]

It is almost the end of this semester and now I mark the journals. Always very engaging, the journals of lyric writing students from last two months. My hope is […]

Rarely am I in the subway at 8am. I followed the siphoning off of people at Yonge station and found myself on the platform with the other sardines. Then next […]

A student was trying to get me to raise her mark because she missed the assignment and received zero, as do all the people who don’t submit it in time. […]

I wrote an angry letter to a new student. I never planned to send it just wanted to let out my pissed off feelings. Then I asked CHAT GPT to […]

One of the survey questions I received from the online class of 80 students was how do I get my music to big shots? A great question that makes me […]

In the class survey, one of the queries presented to me from the 80 students in this online course was they wanted songwriting tricks. I didn’t expect that. I love […]