Music theory websites, books, DVD’s and software

This post’s dedicated to all the musicians of the world. I am a musician, though I don’t read music. I have good pitch, but play by ear; I started with guitar by learning how to play based on basic guitar chord charts and transferred my skills to piano by seeing what notes made up the [...]

Garden photos slideshow: Minolta DiMAGE A1

I ran across this group of garden photos taken with my Minolta DiMAGE A1. That camera had quite the story behind it, a testimony to good customer service. Sometimes I miss that camera. My Sony Alpha A300 is wonderful, but I don’t have the lenses yet which would allow me to get some of the [...]

My fake album: St. John’s Episcopal Church, a Trifling Investment of Fact

Here is your task: Find your fake band and album. Attention musicians, designers and underemployed friends with basic Photoshop or quasi-Photoshop skills. 1 – Click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 The last four or five words of the very last quote of [...]

New page: Teshy Goodness John Tesh page

We’re huge fans of John Tesh and are going to see his Alive! Music & Dance concert in Cleveland on October 23. We’re so excited! We’ve been fans since before he was cool. He is cool, right? Oh well, we’re in our 40′s, so coolness is not so much a criteria for us. Actually, it [...]