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Building Better Bass Skills
Who doesn’t love a song with a good beat that you can dance to? Regardless of the genre people get up and dance when a tight rhythm section drives the groove. Recently I decided I wanted to write a few original tunes from the ground up and wanted some help creating funky, memorable bass lines. Like just about everyone else on the planet, whenever I want to learn something new or get better at a…
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Is Eric Clapton’s Used Guitar Worth A Million Dollars?
I’m always impressed with musicians whose gear is so old and worn it’s a miracle they get any tone out of it at all, Willie Nelson’s guitar, Trigger, comes to mind. How many hours of practicing repetitive scales does it take to wear out a guitar’s maple or rosewood fretboard — or dig a new sound hole into Canadian spruce or Hawaiian Koa from strumming it with a plastic pick? In April 2019, I visited…
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Does Country Music Need Another Whiskey Song?
Lyrics are usually the most difficult part of the process for me so it's no surprise that they came last.
Music and Nature
Every morning is another opportunity to declare your independence from the limiting beliefs that keep you from being creative.
