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 …
Tag: Blues
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 …
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 …
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 …
Voiceovers-English
Talent agencies asked me to submit a sample of voiceovers, so just going to post these here…
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 …

New Home Studio
Moved into a new house right in the heart of the Shibuya district of Tokyo last February and have been trying to figure out the best studio arrangement since. This past week, I finally resolved that the guitars would have to go on the wall Read More …
Blue Bossa
The volume is a bit low on this one… also, flubbed up a little bit. It was 6 AM!! Which explains why the volume is so low. Trying to refresh memory on a bunch of Jazz standards that are listed on Matt Warnock’s site. Great Read More …
Couch Vamping
Here is the first post! These are a few short clips of some acoustic guitar vamps that were taken while I was running scales one night about a year ago. I’ve lost a bit of weight since then!!