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IS MUSIC THEORY ESSENTIAL IF YOU WANT TO BE A GOOD PLAYER?
This is a question I’ve been pondering my entire life. I even went to the trouble to get two degrees in the subject in an effort to answer this question, and I still go back and forth on the answer. There are times when it seems that I just couldn’t get along without theory, and…
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INFORMAL BIO FROM CRADLE TO BASS, OR “INSTRUMENTAL ROULETTE”
What’s this? An informal bio in the first person? Isn’t that sacrilege? I hope not. There’s nothing really wrong with formal third person bios in principle, but in practice they reduce a person’s professional life to a self-serving blurb for the purpose of establishing professional credibility in a paragraph or less. Again, that’s fine, and…
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WHY I PLAY MUSIC
Why do I play music? The simple answer is that for me, the act of playing music provides me with an environment in which I no longer have to wonder “why am I here?” , or “what is the meaning of life on this planet?”. When I’m playing (or perhaps this should be amended to…
