After spending a bit of time (almost three years) of accumulating the pieces to make custom backing tracks for my guitar playing of many genres, but mostly blues, we have now shared this on Blusic Radio. Once we completed the first phase of setup yesterday, Read More …
Category: Music
Looping To Procrastinate Songwriting
I’ve been pumping out some kind of loop just about every two or three days since about a week ago. Some much longer than others, such as the Jan. 17th song that was 31 bars, and the Jan. 24th song that was 46 bars. What Read More …
Loving My Maschine!!
I purchased a Maschine from Native Instruments the other day and must say it is an acquired taste for a Blusician. At first, I bought it because I wanted more than a drum machine. I actually wanted a strong creative drum pad that was portable. Read More …
Guitarist With A Drumming Habit
Just like guitar, I am now starting to learn drumming for the third time in my life. Three times is a charm they say… because I have stuck to guitar and love playing. One thing I have noticed over the past couple weeks during guitar Read More …
Goldtop Jamming
Not one of my best performances, but here goes… I picked up this 2015 Gold Top a couple days ago and love it. It has the small soap bar pickups typically found on the Thunderbird, and has split coils with the boost switch! Awesome tones. Read More …
Acoustic One Man Jam – G Major
Was learning how to play better with a looper today. Liking this because of all the practice you can get in while actually playing music and jamming. Really works on your timing too…
Diatonic Arpeggios
In order to improve my soloing, I purchased a book published by Musician’s Institute titled, “Introduction to Jazz Guitar Soloing: A Comprehensive Improvisation Method“. The approach sends you off into arpeggio memorization land, but not in a bad way. I like structure and it seems Read More …
Singing and Playing
I’ve noticed that some newer players sing and play right away, but don’t ever learn to play really well nor sing very well. After spending about two years really focusing on fretboard memorization, music theory, and finger dexterity, I was finally able to play and Read More …
Rambling Some A Blues
Been a while since I posted something here, so thought this morning before vocal workout and exercises would be a good time. My guitar playing has gone way down since I started the Voice 101 course at Berklee. I must say, there is nothing 101 Read More …
Take The A Train!
This one is hard because the guitar rhythm falls on the back-beat, which is always a good exercise. Know I flubbed a few chords and ended up on the downbeat as I jammed along, but all good fun. This journey of learning jazz standards between Read More …
