L. A. Strings
I’m getting L. A. Strings. This is amazing. Look out world.
2014
Business 101
First I submitted my work for a job. Then they said yes. Then they told me how much money they could pay. Then they said sorry that’s all there is. […]
Home Insurance
One day many years ago a piano teacher showed me something which he said was trick used by Keith Jarrett. Basically the left hand would play any key – let’s say […]
A Mike Nichols Film
My favourite memory of those two weeks in Hollywood and the earlier audition in Toronto was when we went to the dailies of the scene we had been working on. […]
Binary Pleasure Practices
Rich Rhymes
Rich Marsella came to my class last week and talked about his music business life. It was great but only when I gave him a ride downtown later did I […]
New Version of Magical Mystery Tour
Logic Pro X is amazing (so is most music software) but Logic is the one I use since it was Notator in the 90s which became Notator/Logic which became Logic/Audio […]
QTV
One thing that always bugged me about QTV was that there already was a QTV. Here is a video of them being busted. Robert Priest, Ben Cleveland, Joe Bennaroch even […]
Wink Wink
There was a Sufi story the gist of which was about imitating a master when studying under them even if you didn’t understand why they did what they did. There […]
Drake, Bach and The French Lieutenant’s Woman
A heated discussion broke out in the songwriting class when we listened to some songs students identified as least likeable. The big upset was about the Drake song started from the […]