August 2017

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People wanting piano lessons.   See how the black notes are grouped into threes and twos.   Reach/ press those groupings up and down octaves, whatever speed you can.   […]

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My daughter turned on her miniature radio during dinner and landed on a station playing Latin music. She started translating the lyrics suggesting it was about a girl who should […]

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Ronnie Hawkins place is for sale and some stars hung out there once, so goes the Toronto Star article like that’s a reason to buy it, as if the creative […]

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I would like to write a response sone to Ween’s Buenos Tardes Amigo. In my version the accused man defends himself and insists the original singer has it all wrong. […]

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Didn’t expect auto tune to become an instrument but that’s part of our now and maybe an attempt at technology being humanized. Whoever developed auto tune was busy trying to […]

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Canada Council has a new system in place now for grant applications. You input info about yourself on their website then magically it deduces what you’re eligible for.   A […]

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Many students had similar questions in the songwriting course when assigned the  following problem – write a bad song. “What’s that? “You tell me” “Is it suppose to be out of […]

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I know someone who started playing an instrument later in life who told me when they started they’d be practising in the kitchen and their partner, who played the same […]

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Jonas Blue: Mama (over 140 million views)   structure: verse chorus verse chorus.   Instruments: sound like loops from $150 software, like music made on computers.   lyrics:   Where […]