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Find Your Voic(ings)! Sep 27, 2019

So here are three questions I hear all the time in my lofty capacity as a pedagogical micro-star in the teeming Youtube firmament:

1. How do...

The Dominant Dozen Sep 26, 2019

From time to time I find myself trying to explain great lines from certain movies to my kids, usually just after I've used one out of context and...

Gray Ladies, Cheese Weasels and The Horizontal 3-Step Sep 25, 2019

About four years ago, there was a story in the New York Times Magazine about "the new digital creatives." The gist was that despite the erosion of...

Egregious Bloviation Sep 12, 2019

I got an email this week from Cliff, who I've known since I was teaching at the National Guitar Workshop back in the twentieth century. He took...

Hellooo, Zeeba Neighba Sep 05, 2019

It's a dubious honor, but I've managed to live in several of the more hipster-approved neighborhoods during my nineteen years in Austin. At one of...

Workshop Last Call, With Incidental Canine Details Sep 03, 2019

I have told a lot of shaggy dog stories in my life, so it's undoubtedly karma that I am now 25% responsible for one of the shaggier dogs I've ever...

Elucidation At 3 O'Clock Sep 03, 2019

Registration for my Blues Chord Substitutions workshop closes at midnight EST tonight. I've got just a few spaces left, which I'm filling on a...

It's Just Three Chords Sep 01, 2019

On the surface, the blues seems simple – hey, it's just three chords! – as do other blues-based songs that may not be literally 12 bars...

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