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Beatles Bootleg Oasis at Our Fingertips

Years and years ago, I loved venturing off to places and searching the less visited spaces and dusty shops.  Some of the older shops in some of the bigger older cities were just amazing places to find just about anything a collecting heart might want.  Back in those days I was a hunter of things [...]

Does This Still Happen? – Did Coldplay copy Joe Satriani?

You probably heard the news, Joe Satriani is suing Cold Play over the song “Viva La Vida” sounding like his “If I Could Fly.” When I first heard about it, thoughts of George Harrison and “My Sweet Lord” came to mind.  Uggga… I thought… Does this still happen? So I had not only heard clips [...]

Rachmaninov had big Hands – Fun While I Weeze

I’m hacking and coughing, so I thought to take the night off, but I wanted to leave you with a bit of fun. This is a really cute video. – DV more about "Rachmaninov had big Hands – Fun While…", posted with vodpod

Dharma’s First Violin Tab: Using Other Instruments to Learn the Violin – A Basic Vocabulary of Music

  As I mentioned in my post “Learning About Music Using a New Instrument and the Internet” I was having trouble finding tabs for the violin.  There a few out there but some that I found require me to download and view them through a special tab viewer.  I was a little surprised and a [...]

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 [...]

Rickrolling MTvM – A Small Tribute to the Adam Curry’s of the World

  So, MTV finally figured out that watching VJ’ed music videos no longer could beat out places on the Internet that allows us all to just watch what we want when we want.  We, who have been watching videos on the Internet figured out this long ago.  Heck, YouTube has been around since 2005.  But [...]

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 [...]

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