Blog posts in Performance

Please don’t cry, we’ll have the 5.30.23 Live Streams for sure. I’ll go ahead and answer this one question though: How do you know when a drummer is ...

That’s for all instruments and voice; beginners and intermediates are welcome. You are invited. All the scales and positions and charts are provided ...

Come and learn to play better tonight at the Improv Workshop at 7:45 pm. All instruments and vocalists are welcome; beginners and intermediates too – ...

Come and adlib with me at my Improv Workshop and ‘To Play and Sing’ Q&A at 7:45 pm. All instruments and voice are welcome and beginners and ...

if you play or sing and don’t come to the Improv Workshops, and especially tonight at 7:45 pm. And you’re a doofus if you’re in a band and you don’t ...

Seriously here, I'm not talking about the amount of time you spend, though that is important. I'm talking about how you spend your practice time and ...

What is music? The OED says "Music is vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and ...

So the idea is to work on songs that are somewhat beyond you until they are within your grasp. But oddly enough, boredom and creativity are brothers. ...

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 ...