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The songwriting and music business course I previously taught is not available next year. I just found out they replaced it instead with a course about preparing musicians for entering […]

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Rewatching Lina Wertmüller’s films as well as some I never knew about. I find her so good. All the subscriptions that come with the academic setting surprised me when I […]

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Attended Lynn Miles concert at Hugh’s Room, a very nice performance space. The former site was more selling food and drinks but the new one is better concert focussed. Lynn […]

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New song in B. It requires a left hand arpeggiating pattern. A new technique. If not for the YouTube universe I never would have thought this up. Would have assumed […]

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The second assignment in my class is for students to address what they could say in a song that might get them in trouble, maybe in jail or cite a […]

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One of the side effects when you start to play less sweet, is you lose people, people who don’t understand why you intentionally did that. You might even encounter people […]

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I am very happy with my new shirt featuring Peter Sellers wearing Sherlock Holmes hat and holding in one hand magnifying glass while remarking “Not Now Kato!” On the subway […]

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Carolyn McInroy died last week. She was part of the Fat Albert’s open stage community. She played Ukulele and when she performed referred to herself as Madame X. She sung […]

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There is an interview online with Keith Jarrett where he tells a story about playing as a youth and complaining he wasn’t good enough to finish the piece and he […]

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I saw some crazy desert freezing cut up strawberries with yogurt and peanut butter and melted chocolate. I could do that very easily I thought but the proof turns out […]