Music

Charlie + Guitar: Birds Without Wings

So…it’s time. You’ve seen the guitars in the background for a long time. Many of you have requested that I record myself playing and I’ve been too terrified to do it. I’ve told many of you that we don’t get over fear, but instead learn to work with and through it. This is what that [...]

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What Happened to the “Learning to Play a Song” Series?

A while back I started a series on “Learning to Play a Song.” Those who were following that may have noticed that I haven’t done anything with it for a long, long time. What happened? After doing some brainstorming about what to write about, it quickly became apparent that I had way more content than [...]

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Flight of the Conchords: Think about it.

I won’t make it a habit of hoisting what I find funny on you all too much, but if you’ve never seen or heard of Flight of the Conchords, you have to watch this clip. There are four segments that make me crack up everytime: “Junkies with monkey disease who’s touching this monkeys, please.” “What…what [...]

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Three Reasons Why I Like Pandora

I was stumbling recently and came across Pandora, a website that streams free music and analyzes, groups, and sorts the music based upon the song’s attributes. I absolutely love it. Here’s why: Find new music by focusing on artists you know and love. Most of us have a few staple artists that we listen to [...]

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Picking the Song You Want to Learn to Play

[Abstract: This post continues the "Learning to Play a Song Series." It discusses three different things to consider when picking your first song to play.] So, you’ve picked what instrument you want to play. You may not realize it but you’ve made a major step towards learning to play your first song, since, by choosing [...]

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Buying and Choosing an Instrument

In his latest post on Ground Hog Day Resolutions, Dave wrote: “Personally, there are some personal creative goals I’d like to pursue: Play an instrument / Play one song well Compose a song with an interesting arrangement” I recently had an experience with this arena and would like to share it. Background: I love playing [...]

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