Blog posts in April, 2011

One's general musicianship, physical skill, artistic depth, rhythmic mastery, ear-skills are like a cushion upon which specific songs and performances ...

Exercises and theory are the floor, the foundation of your technique. It's frequently hard to be energized by this repetitive work that requires long ...

The long-term goal for all player/singer applications that don't REQUIRE reading is develop your ear to the point that "playing by ear" is incredibly ...

Your ear is like a genius musician and music theoretician from Russia, who knows absolutely everything about music, can play every instrument and ...

In performance (which you need to practice everyday) learning to let notes that you've missed go and keep on going (performance button, keeping the ...

Rhythm and pitch are the primary axes of music and are mostly identified by the beginning musician with "correctness". Only as these are mastered can ...

Performance demand: Mark Black's term for the overarching imperative to play something, anything, no matter how flawed, when an audience is listening, ...

OK, here's a change of pace. If you're practicing scales, chords, progressions - anything - through all twelve keys, you have to decide how much time ...

For every 20 minutes of practice time on a song, you should be working on the amount of material (in that song) that you can physically play through ...