These days it’s easy to find someone trying to give away an old upright piano. 100 years ago in the US just about every middle…
For learning piano, a piano is generally best! But if you need to go the keyboard route, a keyboard with 88 weighted keys (not “semi-weighted”)…
Main features to look for in keyboards 1) Full size keys, not “mini” keys. This is crucial. 2) “Touch sensitive” keys. So dynamics can be…
Marsyas was the greatest aulos virtuoso the world has ever known, and possibly the greatest musician of ancient times. He was a satyr, a man with the legs, tail, horns, and pointed ears of a goat…
The three primary creative art forms are visual arts, literary arts, and music. Like the three primary colors they can be mixed, producing ballet, song, theater, film, and so on. Creativity is fundamental to all art, but technique is required to actualize a creative idea…
Video conferencing apps are tuned for speech. They tend to compress (or eradicate) dynamics making it difficult to hear if a student is playing loud…
There are nearly endless ways to record a piano, but most techniques fall into one of two general approaches: classical, and everything else (pop/jazz). Jazz/pop…
The new album is complete and available here. The “simple” commissioned pieces evolved into not-so-simple pieces. These were a great challenge to write, learn, and…
Last night I dreamed I was in some desert of New Mexico with red sand and rocks and massive cliff walls looming all around me.…
I am happy to say the DVD version of my recent CD While Good Folk Sleep is being pressed as I write this, and should be ready to ship by the end of this week.…