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The bad song assignment went pretty well. the next one was take a popular song and vary it so as not to be recognizable and see if anyone catches on. […]

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There is a student whose songs I don’t tend to like, and she played another one the other day. Once again, I wasn’t sure what to say. I don’t want […]

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There was an old weird guy that played the open stage, his name was Citron and his English was very difficult to understand though I think it was his first […]

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My friend asked about the Art Tatum stuff I was studying. I told him it’s surprising that some of those fast passages are based on very simple feats of the […]

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I’m working on four note chords in my right hand which I first heard explained in Youtube videos analyzing Errol Garner techniques. They didn’t get under my skin at first, […]

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Reading about Florence Ballard. She formed and named the Supremes originally the Primettes. Diana Ross didn’t like the name. The way Berry Gordy divided money was not so different than […]

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A student name Gertie, did an album presentation on an artist from California named Tequila, who was also a Yoga practitioner. This led the classroom into discussions about meditation and […]

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Don’t know what to do for the chorus of the new song but the student i spoke with this morning, the one who got there before the others, said he […]

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Andras once told me a Sufi story about a mystic who warned the people the river would soon stop flowing and not to drink the water when it returned or […]