the loneliness of a long distance runner
There are some artists Ruth heard that stunned her, ruined her, transformed her. She returned to them again and again, knew every note, every kick, every surprise. When you are […]
and the bryan adams registered retirement savings fund
Sometimes I get hate mail. They are upset I have an opinion that is different than theirs and I must to pay by reading hysterical curses and bad spelling. A […]
backwards
Sometimes I take a break from whatever I’m doing at the Tranzac and walk down the street to the Future Bakery, drink tea and watch people then head back to […]
Just Tourists.
The Blind Boys Of Alabama cameo the radio singing House of The Rising Sun. My daughter demanded I change the channel to the hits station I said no you’ve never […]
The international
For her final project the international student wrote that songwriting presumes there is something wrong to repair and that that premise was more interesting than the variety of styles or […]
end game
The old teacher said the end goal is to stay involved with improvising and get more deeply into it or to put it another way the ending of an improvisation […]
Trevor
Last year there was a young man in the songwriting class that didn’t know what to do with the journal request. They were asked to keep daily journals to help […]
Next Time Mr. Bach
On a roll last few nights with fantastic dreams. In the latest I was positioned to meet Bach but Bach was in the form of some type of underwater creature […]
chit chat
maybe they follow maybe they react with non sequiturs. more and more, taking the musical experience of improvising and re-contextualizing it in non musical life. no difference. the art of […]
007
Am trying to plan out my songwriting course, specifically how to attempt teaching it online. In one exercise, I asked the students last year to take 20 minutes and eavesdrop […]