Computer & guitar: MIDI guitar, get a cheap guitar with a hardtail bridge and decent intonation and set it up for midi sequencing, make this a part of my practice/composition setup; playing direct into an audio interface; Native Instruments/Guitar Rig/d...

Now that I’m on the subject of music - and, more importantly, given that I am looking forward to possibly teaching at Berklee - I may as well do a writing loop on the blues. Let me focus specifically on the broader stuff I need to organize in order to teach...

Some thoughts on guitar practice:

I’m nursing a couple of blisters on my fingers, so I figured better to write just now. I watched Rig Rundown for quite a bit on YouTube. Vernon Reid and Uli Jon Roth were among my favorites. I’ve also seen great rundowns with Doyle Bramhall, Santana’s tech,...

I finished my last post and still had some energy for writing. Let me also brainstorm on some other aspects of musical practice:

I played the guitar for a few hours today. I played some stuff from memory, and I learned a couple of Lightnin’ Hopkins rhythms from a Stefan Grossman video. Let me list off some of the stuff I played from memory:

I’m back from Maryland. I drove down on Friday and back on Sunday - today. Driving down was cool. We left at 3:30 in the morning and pulled up at my brother’s house by 10:30, stopping only once for food and gas, Zanaya was on her headphones/phone or sleepin...

I’m in Maryland visiting my brother and his family. Zanaya just went off to camp this morning, and I didn’t have the energy to drive back to Massachusetts today. I had thought for a bit about driving back this morning so I could go to Don’s barbecue, but I ...

messing with icons icons Let me print out a few icons from Atom's octicons list briefcase beaker beer circuit board comment-discussion video camera flame git merge git branch graph keyb...

I got up at 3:00 am and drove from Massachusetts to Maryland, arriving just before 10:30. I stopped once for a bathroom break and gas. Zanaya slept most of the way, and she is sleeping still after we have arrived. Tomorrow Zanaya is off to camp, and I may d...

The wifi is out so I won’t be able to upload this post when I am done writing. I can’t read the news or work on one of the coding tutorials, and I can’t check my email. In general, I have become very dependent on the internet for my daily work and pleasure....

I’m tired and I don’t really feel like writing just now. Let me give it a go anyway; a good sense of work discipline is an important thing to work on as well.

I couldn’t sleep well last night because of the humidity. I kept waking up wet, turning my pillow over and over to try to find a dry spot to put my head. I’m a big, sweaty guy as it is, so even a little bit of heat and humidity will make me crazy. Sometimes...

I’m sitting at my desk waiting for a Skype interview to possibly teach at Berklee.

Let me try out the footnotes functionality in Markdown. I think I just figured it out, which will be very handy.

I haven’t re-read any of my blog posts as I go along, but I’m aware that as I go along I have been repeating myself across posts. No big deal, but I think the repetition is probably a good thing; it means there may be some thematic consistency across posts ...

I finished a couple of online tutorials regarding Python, and now I am working on a tutorial that walks me through how to create a weather forecast mailer. Python is a much simpler language than JavaScript, though I’m still struggling with the algorithmic l...

I don’t know why guitar gear fascinates me the way it does. I am generally a minimalist where effects and instruments are concerned, sticking mostly with a tuning pedal and a compressor. I’ve added an overdrive (Danelectro Daddy-O) and a volume pedal to my ...

Actually, I don’t hate Sundays, I just couldn’t think of a better title for this post. I think it’s kind of funny that I choose a title and some categories for a post before I begin to write, as if I know what I am going to write when I clearly don’t. That’...

This is my third post of the day. Apparently I have some energy to spare today since I have already written two posts over 600 words each, and now I’m coming back for more. If I’ve got the energy, why not.