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From the Woodshed

http://fromthewoodshed.com/

I left my job to practice guitar for a year. This is my daily journal about it.

• Added on: Nov 1st, 2007
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Joe
• Listed in: Music Jazz
• Tags: music guitar Workout jazz practice woodshed

Recent Posts

• Real Book Rankings Index

  Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 19:40 in resources

  I've raved about JazzStandards.com before. They did an extensive study of prominent recordings of jazz standards and ranked the top 1000. Discarding the obvious doubts of such a study (What makes a standard? Who's prominent?), their ranked list is us...

• Mobile Ear Training

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 10:08 in resources

  I had a cool idea. I spend a small chunk of every day commuting in my car or walking to the trolley station, when I enjoy listening to music but can't read a book or get any work done. What if I could use that time for ear training? Most of the focus...

• Kneebody: The Future of Jazz

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 12:27 in school

  I was assigned to speak about the future of jazz in my jazz history seminar. Each student gets 10 minutes to highlight a band or artist who's been active in the last 10 years. Here's what I have to say. The future of an art form is difficult to predi...

• I\'m Learning the Mandolin

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 in skills

  I've been recruited by my bandmates to learn the mandolin parts on Going to California. We know our John Paul Jones is supposed to play them, but our Plant already has the guitar parts down, and we thought I might pick up the mando parts quicker. Our...

• My First Fugal Exposition

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 00:16 in school

  I wrote a three-part fugal exposition for my theory class a few weeks ago. Here it is. And here's the audio, again in cheesy MIDI. (See My First Motet for my previous assignment.) The assignment was to demonstrate an understanding of 18th century cou...

• Theme and Variation

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 08:59 in skills

  I had a breakthrough on soloing this month. I'm starting to get past thinking about chord changes on a lot of the tunes I've been playing. I've learned them well enough that I can concentrate on melodic development and solo structure instead of playi...

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Tony Hogan

This guys interesting. If you are a guitar player, check him out, there's useful stuff

Posted: November 20th, 2007 | More Reviews From acousticguitarist | Report This Comment

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