(h/t Luqman Brown) UPDATE: A very cool article about Bowie’s final album.
Author: Todd Bishop
Simple one-handed Reed interpretation
UPDATE: Download link is working now… This is a simple exercise which arose while working on my Zigaboo Modeliste-like half time feel funk method. It will be easy to master— it’s fun to work on […]
Daily best music in the world: Howlin’ Wolf
We’ll be getting back into regular blogging soon enough— I’ve just finished the 2015 Book of the Blog (available for purchase soon!), and am chilling out with some Howlin’ Wolf right now…
Daily best music in the world: Milton
Listening to Milton Nascimento’s Clube Da Esquina 2 while working on the 2015 Book of the Blog, which should be finished today. We slowed up with the downloadable materials towards the end of the year, […]
Paul Bley 1932-2016
We’ve lost quite a few great people this week: the singer Natalie Cole, cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond and Haskell Wexler, Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon, and now pianist Paul Bley— word is, he passed away while listening […]
What to do in college
Wow, a whole month without any posts. Let’s eaaase back into blogging after having returned from Europe with a wicked case of the flu: here’s Advice To A College Music Student, by Michael D’Angelo. Here are […]
Travelling
Just a service update— I’ll be traveling for most of the month of December, and posts will be few. I’m doing a recording in Brussels with last year’s touring band— Jasnam Daya Singh (Weber Iago), […]
Very occasional quote of the day: Bohemian Rhapsody
“…sometimes it’s just a little voice that tells you that if Bohemian Rhapsody was big in my house, it was probably big in other people’s houses too.” —Mike Myers, fighting to get the song used […]
From the zone: Five in seven in six in four
A little Thanksgiving treat shared on Facebook by my friend Steve Pancerev: Let’s walk through this— it’s difficult, but not impossible. I see a jazz rhythm there, and a crazy independent part with a double-beamed […]
Inverted paradiddle exercises
A page of paradiddle exercises, using the fun and hip RLLR/LRRL inversion. These are written in cut time, and can be played blazingly fast. You’ll notice that the 8th notes are all alternating, except most […]