books
Ignore Everybody
I already wrote a post about gapingvoid. I just love the cartoons and I also love the “How to be creative” book that Hugh McLeod wrote made freely available to download here in pdf format. Now he has released a “dead tree” and kindle format book named Ignore Everybody and 39 other keys to creativity. [...]
Sight reading for guitar
Lately, I’ve been using William Leavitt’s Reading Studies for guitar. I’m on a mission to improve my guitar reading skills and I can already feel the improvements.
I studied several years of classical guitar training and although I always managed to read the pieces I needed I was never satisfied with my reading speed. Too slow, [...]
How to be creative
I was thinking about how to write lyrics, how to be creative and bumped into this post from gapingvoid, which I love. Highly inspirational. BTW, I also happen to love the cartoons.
“…it’s the lyrics I can’t stand writing”
Just as Noel Gallagher told Guitar in May 1996 “The music side of it is easy – it’s the lyrics I can’t stand writing”. I have to agree to that and generally in my own experience I’ve never felt comfortable doing it. So I recently decided to put an end to that. I had two [...]
20 things to know about music online
I just finished reading this book, titled “The 20 things you must know about music online”, on an excellent blog about online music called New Music Strategies written by Andrew Dubber. The book is a must read for anyone making music nowadays as although some of the things he writes about are commonsense for people [...]
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