The following article was originally written in 2011, and I still can’t bring myself to get rid of the stupid puns… sorry! It Hertz to Have No Cents I am in the process of reading through about 60 pages of feedback, ideas, and questions on harmonica technology and music- notes
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Why Music Theory is so Confusing If you want to make any progress with music theory, you have to have a rock solid mental model of the major scale and what it sounds like to move around in it. This seems obvious to me now, but it took decades for
March 1, 2021 The Power of Focused Practice + Sleep I was listening to an interview with a woman who does research on sleep who also happens to have a newborn baby. One of the things she described was how she would show the baby something to try out –
February 22, 2021 How are you doing right now? When you start to answer that question, your answer depends on how you use one of your biggest assets: your attention. What you focus on creates everything you experience. This is no small issue for me. I work online every day,
February 15, 2021 What do breath and thought have in common? I find this question fascinating because it focuses on the mysterious ways we can find and use our greatest powers. Breath and thought both run in the background all the time, and some magnificent intelligence controls them so you
Written January 13th, 2021 “The key word for our time is practice. We have all the light we need; we just need to put it into practice.” – Peace Pilgrim I hope you have been able to find time to devote to music. I know it has been critical to
I have decided to simplify my line of harmonicas to focus on what I believe to be the ideal harmonica: The simplest design with the absolute minimum number of parts – 2 reed plates, 3 reed plate screws, 2 cover plates, 2 sets of cover plate screws, one comb. The
Last week I sent you a letter about taking a look at what you have control over and what you don’t have control over (among other things). I got so many wonderful letters back were uplifting and positive, and I asked for permission to include a couple of them.
Dear Music Lover, I hope you are doing well in spite of the pandemic and the general state of the world. My goal with these letters is to give you something worth reading and ideas worth trying out. My response to the global lock down has been to drop out
I hope this message finds you safe and in contact with your friends, and I hope you have been finding time to play some music. I write these letters because I have a persistent feeling that we are here for a reason and that we have things to do that
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