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From the Woodshed
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I left my job to practice guitar for a year. This is my daily journal about it.
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Real Book Rankings Index
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
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
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
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
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
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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