It’s always a song. It’s always when I hear something that connects somehow to another song we share. Or a memory. Or a moment. It’s always a song that makes me weep. When I rush to tell him. To make him hear. To extend just a little the borders of our shared...
YouTuber Alex Graf has some advice for musicians in this all-digital age. And it’s good stuff. And while you’re there (make sure you like and subscribe to his...
Had a great in-person lesson on Tuesday and so yesterday, head full of ideas, had to break my instrument out to see what I could do. My big questions at my lesson were about fitting triplets and sixteenth notes into regular alternate picking. We came up with for or...
Martin guitars have always had a mythical status in my family because of a long-sold Martin that one of my dad’s older brothers owned when they were young. I remember how jealously I looked at the magazine ads when the Martin Backpacker Mandolin came out, and how sad...
