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Month: October 2010
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Independent Musicians and Day-Jobs
I don’t want to use this place to mutter and moan about the tedium of doing a day-job that is, well, tedious. Or witter on about how much more I could achieve as a musician were I not apparently shackled to some desk or other. Chiefly because I’m well aware that it’s in my capacity,…
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Real Fingernails or Falsies (again)
To regurgitate this oft, well, regurgitated topic amongst fingerstyle guitar players: I prefer natural nails because I use them all the time. Why? Because I don’t use them all the time! Consider: Player one plays (or merely noodles) an hour or two every evening on his couch with his natural nails and listens to the…
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Anxiety! Stage-Fright!
Forget about it. I mean if you’re that shit scared, don’t bother! Be kind to yourself and the people who are sitting in rows or at tables in front of you. Inevitably your fear will spread over the room and everybody will be fidgeting and have sweaty palms. Only kidding (partly). But there is a…
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Norman Lebrecht
All of my listening time is spent with classical music and one of my favourite bloggers in that arena is Norman Lebrecht. Lebrecht is a passionate, opinionated and often controversial writer and speaker. He describes it as he sees it and he ruffles feathers. I don’t have the depth of knowledge or experience to make…
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Songwriting – Where Are Your Songs?
Sometimes I’m asked at gigs and it catches me off guard. It’s always a difficult question to answer succinctly to a stranger, and causes me to stutter and stammer incoherently. “I’ve always done it”, is as lame a reason as it is true. Songwriting, that is to say. But to me it’s all rather obvious…
