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Zebulon Turrentine
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The World According to Guitar
- Added on: Sep 18th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Zebulon Turrentine
- Listed in: Music Classical
- Tags: classical music classical guitar guitar teaching guitar making cookeville guitar history
Recent Posts
Conservation of the Arts
After being in Cookeville and working for a conservation non-profit for a about three months I am starting to realize that i am not practicing my conservation mantra with my music. That is: if you want to preserve something (ie: your guitar skills) t...
The First Time Performing in Two Years
So Kat the Great, the violinist from Cookeville toted me over to an open mike night tonight, and I was thinking, yeah, one of those lazy cafe deals where noone listens because they are to busy talking to each other kind of thing. Actually it was a fi...
A Sobering Test
My mother forwarded me an email this week and it was the only forward that I think that I have ever paid much attention to. I think it was the Washington Post that hired the great violinist Joshua Bell to play in a DC Metro Station. http://www.washin...
Time Managment
Improvement will always be proportional to how well you are managing your time. Make sure that when you sit down to practice you have clear goals and objectives, and furthermore, remember to set a time each day and week in which you measure your succ...
Why I Listen to Classical Music
Taste is a very subjective thing and often those of us who are aficionados of classical music can be pretty dag dum serious when it comes to what we are listening to. This makes being a player of classical music frustrating when we are giving t...
Jazzing It Up
So I have been working on Jazz a little lately. Nothing really helps you understand the limits of the guitar ore than Jazz and playing a lot of extended chords back to back that can only be abbreviated on the guitar. I have been practicing classical ...
