Despite considering myself a serious musician for most of my adult life, I’ve had a difficult relationship with practice. Most musicians are less than thrilled with practice, so this is not unique to me. I don’t know what motivates (or should I say de-motivates) most people not to practice, but for me it’s been a […]
Clarinet Practice, Despair, Vade Mecum, and You Read Post »
A little over a year ago, Nathan decided to start playing guitar. I’d played guitar a little several years ago, so I decided to buy an inexpensive Yamaha guitar and work on playing guitar with him. I’ve continued to practice and work with a friend of mine on guitar (Nathan’s taking lessons as well). Somewhere
And have I mentioned my guitar habit? Read Post »
Fine, thank you. I’ve been steadily popping one in provided I’m awake, my computer is awake, and I’m where I can feed the thing. I’ve got a stack at home and at work. As of this writing, the collection in iTunes stands at 2092 items. It would take over 6 days to listen to it
So how’s it going adding every CD you own? Read Post »
because I just bought a iPod Classic 160 GB. In black. I’m adding all my CDs. Every single one I own. Well, maybe not the homebrewed ones that are made from live recordings, all too often of me playing. And I’m drawing the line at my wife’s Olivia Newton John collection from the ’80s, because
Wherein I add all my CDs to my iTunes library Read Post »
Troy University Clarinet Day is once again coming soon, and they have a great lineup of guest artists. I attended this last year with my colleague Curtis Hollinger of the MSO and a student. Timothy Phillips and the rest of the faculty and staff do a fantastic job. Don’t miss it! Tell any of your
2011 clarinet day info Read Post »
Until recently, I had a minidisc recorder which I had used to record live music – mainly my own practices and performances – and which I had occasionally used to make digital recordings of public speaking. The latter were mainly sermons at church which I recorded off the sound board so that I, as the
Music recording, past and present Read Post »
An Evening of Magic: Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Chuck Mangione) My brother worked at a radio station and got a copy of this on LP. I wore the grooves off of it. Perhaps one of the good things about the LP format was it encouraged you to listen to the whole thing instead of
Chuck Mangione Live at the Hollywood Bowl Read Post »
The Auburn Knights will have their annual reunion this weekend. Montgomery Advertiser story. I like to think that in some parallel universe I got to play with the Auburn Knights as a regular band member, but truthfully I went to AUM and anyway I was probably never that good. However, I was asked to play
AU Knights reunion this weekend Read Post »
Perhaps this would have been a good place for Birmingham’s Mayor to look for inspiration/advice: www.logolounge.com
logolounge.com, swooshy logos, and you Read Post »
(hat tip – John Tracy, one of my twitter friends) This is so true – my own application of this has to do with adults who try to begin on musical instruments (or even musicians who try to begin on different instruments). The hard part is – you know how bad you are. It’s a
This is why it’s so hard for adult music beginners Read Post »