How do you want your band remembered? Have you ever noticed how some concerts are just that, a “concert,” and some are an all-out PARTY, where you feel you are as much a part as the guys on stage? You may have walked away from some concerts wishing you would have just listened to their [...]

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Why is it that some people seem to be so oblivious to the truth?  Do they really just not get it? How is it that thousands of horribly untalented people will wait hours upon hours in line to audition for shows like American Idol, when they really have no chance of making it past the [...]

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Spiritually enlightened and developed individuals suggest that we get rid of obstacles.  By overcoming the obstacles in your life, you achieve your potential, or attain the Way. Here is what they suggest: The first obstacle is the troubled feeling that comes from needing to make a living.  This doesn’t mean you abandon making a living; [...]

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by J.B. I thought a while ago about a great ear training exercise,useful for absolutely any musician, even those playing transposing instruments. The aim of it is to create easily a bass line from a melody, and a melody from a bass line.  It also really opens one’s mind to new harmonic perspectives. It is [...]

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The wealth of options we have to choose from today has extended personal freedom to an extent that would have been inconceiveable even a hundred years ago. Life-styles and religions are choices that are easily interchangeable.  In the past a hunter was a hunter untile he died, a blacksmith spent his whole life working on [...]

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