Posts Tagged ‘Music

I just came across a post on the Umphrey’s blog about some new events they are planning called “Stew Art Series”.

Here is the description of the events from the website:
An (S2) event is an experiment in crowd-sourced improvisation. One hundred percent of the music performed at a (S2) event will be improvised, and you are [...]

Thinking About a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance? – Dr. John Pisano writes a fairly informative article aimed at younger musicians who are thinking about obtaining a performance degree in college.  I don’t fully agree with some of the points Dr. Pisano makes, but all are worth considering.
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Via MusicianWages.com
MusicianWages.com, Music Careers at About.com and KnowtheMusicBiz.com are organizing a group blogging event for all music and musician bloggers. MW recently received a comment from a reader concerned about her teenage son’s file-sharing. We believe that this is a topic with as many answers as there are musicians and invite you to join us [...]

Grant Green (via last.fm)

Here is Grant’s Transcribed Solo
Grant Green is one of my biggest influences.  I first heard about him from my guitar teacher in college, who didn’t care for him too much.  I then was a casual listener until I became friends with Corey Christiansen.  Corey is the closest to a GG scholar that [...]

How I Learn Tunes

In: Guitar

2 Mar 2009

Image by Stephen Poff via Flickr

While I was in graduate school, I had to develop a method of learning all the tunes that were thrown at me at a daily basis.  In an earlier post, I outlined a method I learned from Jody Fisher on learning the chords to a tune.  In this post, I [...]


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