Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

Here's an idea. I want to rid my musical life of unnecessary weaknesses, like being intimidated by certain keys, or by my slowness at re...

At the airport bar in LAX, a middle-aged guy talking on cellular at the opposite end from me, but loud enough so I could hear, kept saying t...

Yume means dream, but in this dream it meant rain . A little Japanese girl named Yume (or Yube?, evening ) rang the doorbell. This was a sy...

I knew last year around this time that it would be the last time my sister Debbie recognized me. She seems now to know that I am part of the...

What I mean by this is that we need to achieve competence. For example, I would like to play jazz piano that sounds like generic playing tha...

I mean music theory, here. It is funny that what goes by the name music theory would be, in literature, the equivalent of prosody and plot c...

I don't base a melody on scale. What I do sometimes is choose one note and play it against chord progression.  It will have a different ...