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Songwriting Workshop This Saturday

Published: Tue, 08/24/21

I'll be teaching a two-hour songwriting workshop this Saturday, August 28th at 10:30am Central. This one-time class is separate from The Fingerstyle…

Call And Response

Published: Thu, 08/19/21

I look forward to hearing from you, and if you can't be there live, the stream will be available to watch later on Youtube as well. Here's the link,…

The Wrong End Of A Megaphone

Published: Thu, 08/12/21

I have any number of reasons for my decades-long affinity for the Benny Goodman/Charlie Christian se tet recordings, but at the moment, it's the fact…

All Frosting, No Cupcake

Published: Thu, 08/05/21

Advertisements for Myself: Introductions and Acknowledgments. Aside from being, to my ears, a kind of distant mashup of two Bill Evans phrases (song…

Superette

Published: Thu, 07/29/21

After the sheer preponderance of ice cream vendors, my ne t favorite thing about New England is the word "superette," a term that that is all prefi…

Roomful Of Pedagogy

Published: Fri, 07/16/21

hard to make a four look like a one, and besides, the effort was going to be worth it: Roomful of Blues was playing, and a girl who considered seeing…

Chord Substitutions Workshop Revisited

Published: Wed, 07/07/21

At the time, I'd heard from a number of people that while they were interested in what I was teaching in The Fingerstyle Five, they weren't down for…

"Me, Me....Me Again!"

Published: Thu, 07/01/21

But in other news, I'm not feeling bitter at all, just a little sheepish. My membership, the Fingerstyle Five, includes a community forum where people…

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