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Respect The Form of a Song

By oneoverphi

Where has the time gone? Between work, fam­ily, and  out­side projects I’m afraid I’ve neglected to post. Well it’s time to rem­edy this. The past two months have been quite busy for me. I’ve been writ­ing up a storm of songs, though few are com­plete. There are miss­ing lyrics here, unfin­ished arrange­ments there, and now... »

Get Music On The Brain

By oneoverphi

If you’re at all curi­ous about the hows and whys of music then you owe it to your­self to watch The Music Instinct: Sci­ence and Song. I just caught it on PBS tonight but I’m sure you’ll be able to get it from your local library, or you could buy it from the PBS shop. Be... »

And You Thought They Were Stuffy

By oneoverphi

Betcha’ didn’t know National Geo­graphic was so into music. Well they are, and it is great! Learn about all sorts of music, from every genre imag­in­able, from every region. Lis­ten to record­ings of artists from across the globe. Watch videos of amaz­ing per­for­mances. It’s all for you and it’s all free baby! »

Sawing at My Guitar

By oneoverphi

I’ve done some­thing that I’ve wanted to try for a long time. Tak­ing my Christ­mas gift cer­tifi­cate to Long and McQuade, I bought a vio­lin bow to use on my gui­tar. Let me tell you, it is not easy to just pick up a bow and start play­ing. First thing I noticed was that the notes I was hear­ing were... »

State Your Musical Influences

By oneoverphi

What kind of music do you play? A seem­ingly inno­cent ques­tion, but is really loaded with com­pli­ca­tions and pit­falls. I know I’m not alone when I have trou­ble answer­ing this one. Many musi­cians find them­selves torn between giv­ing the sim­ple answer or the com­plex one. It is rare that one would enjoy, and be influ­enced by, one... »

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