Here’s a set of free video lessons from JamPlay that cover the basics of music theory, specifically for the guitar. This series assumes you know a few basic chords. //

I’ve been taking the time to get familiar with Squidoo. It’s a great way to set up quick reference pages on various topics, and I think that it will let me better communicate resources that our related to music learning, songwriting, and production. I intend to set up a variety of lenses on the site [...]

I have a really bad tendency to start playing with lyrics, then rarely look at the project again. When I do revisit it, I’m not all that happy with what I put down, even though it sounded like a good idea at the time I was writing it. Well I decided to take a different [...]

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. The title of this post is absolutely true. You can learn the fundamentals of music for free. I’ve spent several weeks developing Presto, a music learning web portal that you can download to your desktop. It includes over 35 interactive presentations that start with the fundamentals of note [...]

I’ve been working working around the clock the last few weeks putting together a pretty cool music learning tool. I’ll release more details on that soon, but I’m working a few bugs out before an official release is made. In the meantime, I haven’t been playing music as much as I’d like to, but I’ve [...]

Nashville is my second home, as I spent 9 years living there. It pains me to see the damage that was done by the flood over the weekend. The pictures are unbelievable. Right now there are missing people, and the shelters are getting rather crowded. The Red Cross is doing everything they can to help. [...]

I haven’t been drafting song ideas or lyrics over the past week. I’ll get back to that soon enough. I’m actually assembling a music learning tool, that will be available  for free on this site once I finish it. It’s going to be a complete crash course in music theory and ear training. A lot [...]

Sometimes I come up with great lyric lines and concepts. Most of the time I feel like I come up with cheesy and cliché lines, so when I feel I have a good one, I like to hold on to it for dear life. I also have a tendency to start on a concept, flesh [...]

Alright, so it was my birthday weekend, and I haven’t done anything really music related for the last 4 days. Plenty of time spent with family and friends, so I’m totally ok with it. I suppose this is a good lesson in understanding that road blocks of life do get in the way of our [...]

For anyone who’s just starting out learning music, or getting themselves back in the habit, I can tell you how amazed I am at what a little daily practice will do for your musicianship. I think it helps to look at practice and improvement as a climb, but not a straight incline. There will be [...]