Category Archives: Challenge 13 – Experience Music
Learning About Music Using a New Instrument and The Internet
A long time ago, in a world far far away, I learned to play the piano. Although they purchased lessons for me, my family would describe themselves as non-musical. I think this is incorrect and would limit the musicality in my family in general. I would describe my family members not as non-musical, but more [...]
A Day of Goofin with Music
Well, this weekend I decided to fight our the rest of my cold and recover from my jury duty at home. The weather was beautiful and while watching it from inside, I sat down in front of my laptop, with my trusty guitar and microphone and decided to work with this idea I had been [...]
Does this guitar playing make you hot?
Tommy Emmanuel is an guitarist out of Australia, and an amazing one at that. Not only is he an amazing guitarist, he is having such a fun time doing it. Sometimes when I watch a master at an instrument I’m struck by the “no way I’m ever going to play like that” blues. When I [...]
Cool Music Tools – Power Tab (Free) & Guitar Pro
The Fall is coming in, and I have been home slowly getting over the flu. In Oregon, when the skies start going gray and the trees outside my window start turning shades of yellow them red, it is the perfect time to stay home and appreciate the time that a good flu can give you. [...]
Try Dharma’s Guitar Tab Feed
I have a couple of my friends out there that want to learn guitar. I definitely recommend using guitar tabs as a method of learning. It is a cheap effective way to learn to play guitar without needing to read music. I have recently tested a number of ways to quickly publish some guitar tabs [...]
Beck: Modern Guilt on the Ride to Work
Yeah… so… it has been a stressful week, but the pay off is probably worth while. Smiles… The work thing. My other half and I don’t work very far from each other, so we have this great perk of carpooling to work together. You may think I’m just saying that, but it is probably [...]
Three Little Birds: My Semi-Personal Bob Marley Story
I was listening to an old CD mix of mine while riding down the road in the last few weeks. I had heard some songs that reminded me of kind of a Buddhist bent. One of them is a Bob Marley tune that I have just always loved: Three little birds. OK, I realize this [...]
In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream – State Songs
I don’t remember why, but I started thinking about “state” songs. It started as the road rolled under me, and the cool wind blew through my window, as we we drove the 3400 miles on our road trip to Yellowstone. It couldn’t have been hearing Alabama or Kansas, because we had not been listening to [...]
