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.
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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
Harmonica Hygiene Scroll down for a video on the easiest way I have come up with for cleaning your blues harps, but first, I have a new challenge for you as a harmonica player. Are you willing to go pro with your hand washing routine / skills? You have a
2020-02-20 – Greetings from cold, grey Central Pennsylvania. The Link Between Meditating and Music Practice One of my goals for the new year was to pick a very small list of things that I will do every day. It took most of January to settle on a list. It
One of the projects that I’m working on this year is to learn to play the chromatic harmonica in all 12 keys . I am doing this as my focus for learning music theory, specifically jazz music theory. I came to this commitment by a long winding road with
I’ve been writing about habit creation lately, focusing mostly on a book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear. Habits are the part of your life that is on autopilot. Good habits mean automatic progress, or at least the absence of some problems. Bad habits mean guaranteed misery and frustration. Habits become
Here are a couple of videos on ways to make”Jingle Bells” a fun blues harp solo machine… This tune just popped into my head after listening to a lot of Django Reinhart and Stephan Grappelli recordings. Jeez, I wish they had recorded a version of this tune so I could
06/19/2014 #159——–07/03/2014 And it Stoned Me, Part 2 (Originally published July 7th, 2014 In my last email “And it Stoned Me” I talked about how playing the harmonica can trigger our own internal supply of “happy drugs” If you missed that post you can read it here:
And it Stoned Me… (Originally published June 6th, 2014) “If you don’t live it, it ain’t going to come out of your horn.” – Louis Armstrong I love this quote because it reminds me that playing the harmonica gets all tangled up with the rest of my life,
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