Bet you weren't expecting this! This is from Howl's Moving Castle, a world-wide anime hit movie from Japan. Give it a listen. Haunting. It's a well-known fact among musicians that modern classical composition was dying in 1920 and has been stone-cold dead for at least 50 ...
Multiple cool things in this song. Please stick with this until 2:00. Opening is great. NOTICE ALL MUSICIANS AND WANNABES - the artist has gone BIG. ...
Moving Fuchsia to Green | What should I be working on, part 3
You are practicing to try and pull yourself up ability-wise, so you should be choosing songs to work on that are 5 to 10% above your present abilities ...
One of my forever-favorite bands, Steely Dan. So tight and well-crafted. Listen to that horn section - would that there were bands today with horns ...
Practicing in the red zone - what should I be working on, part 2
Look at the red square of my blurry diagram below - Licks/Study. (Notice on the diagram all the levels are in relation to what's hard or easy TO YOU) ...
It always amazes me how many awesome songs there are. This one is so cool and yet, not that well known, Electric Guest's 'This Head I Hold'. As usual, ...
How hard should the songs I work on be? One way to answer this is what are you trying to accomplish with this song, what is this song supposed to do ...
When you learn a new technique or a different way to play or sing something, it's like your brain has planted a little seed; the idea has birthed a ...