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Sixteen Stanzas About Candy And Pedagogy

Published: Fri, 11/01/24

Updated: Fri, 11/08/24

So yesterdaywas HalloweenIf you had been hereYou'd have seen My preference forthe M&MsAnd how I justkept eating them We gave awayThe Skittles andThe…

Blues Sensibility and Jazz Articulation

Published: Fri, 11/01/24

In Just Si Scales... When I say "Blue Note Blues," I'm basically talking about music made from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, in a style that's typically…

"Can you really learn from transcriptions?"

Published: Thu, 10/31/24

More Workshop FAQs I thought I would answer a couple more questions I've received about Saturday's Blue Note Blues workshop. As a jazz dropout, I…

Blue Note Blues FAQs #1

Published: Wed, 10/30/24

Answers to Questions About This Saturday's Workshop And now, answers to a couple of questions I've received about this Saturday's upcoming Blue Note…

Doing It The Blues Way

Published: Tue, 10/29/24

I will cheerfully admit to anyone who will listen that I dropped out of the graduate jazz studies program at Manhattan School of Music after one…

New Reliable Source Workshop!

Published: Fri, 10/25/24

Updated: Fri, 10/25/24

BLUE NOTE BLUES • Saturday, Nov. 2 A lot of blues guitarists e periment with jazz guitar lessons, hoping to find a way to play more than just…

Today Youtube Video – NOW it's live...

Published: Fri, 10/18/24

and here's the link again:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZciJsb bcM–Daviddavid@davidhamburger.comP.O. Bo 302151Austin TX 78703USATo unsubscribe or…

The Rag Trade

Published: Fri, 10/18/24

Updated: Mon, 10/21/24

"Ragtime" and "ragtime guitar" are really two different things. Prewar alternating-thumb pickers with vivid chord vocabularies and a sprightly right…

On Not Hot Tubbing With Teddy Wilson

Published: Fri, 10/11/24

As I write this, the Dauphin is away on a school trip, Ms. Fretboard is at a friend's where hot tubbing may or may not be involved, and our daughter…

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