Category Archives: Studying Music

She Walks This Earth – Dionne Warwick and Lins

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Take Five

Very cool sitar, guitar and tabla exchanges in this wicked version of the late great Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.” Recorded in 2011 at Sachal Studios, Lahore, Pakistan.

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Why We Buy Music

New study shows what happens in the brain to make music rewarding A new study reveals what happens in our brain when we decide to purchase a piece of music when we hear it for the first time. The study, … Continue reading

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Frisell Runs Lennon’s Universal Voodoo Down

Notice how lossey-goosey the tempi flow, the musicians spiraling their thoughts-in-the-moment together about how this-now-that particular phrase goes. And all running with the groove to take this beautiful songs to new places and, lovingly, lovely maximal affect.

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Serenade to a Cuckoo per Jethro Tull

Still love this.

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Song of Math by Karen Cheng

This is a pretty cool example of a common chord progression in rock songs. Someone did this for the sensitive female singer-songwriter progression (vi-IV-I-V), too. What we need is a jazz version exemplifying the ii-V-I pattern

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Whiskey Before Breakfast – The Eric Skye And Tim Connell Bluegrass Experiment

Awesome tune, giving us the bluegrass side of Skye. Great trade of solos drawing on a lot of musical beams of light.

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Wise Magraw Play Delphonic

Tabla and acoustic guitar combine in this duo’s lovely “Delphonic.”

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Stolen Moments

We’ve been working on Oliver Nelson’s great tune, “Stolen Moments.” I especially like this version, Lee Ritenour being one of (the many of) my favorite guitarists.

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Steve Tibbetts

A gathering of videos featuring one of my all time favorite guitarists, Steve Tibbetts. I think it’s fair to say that he takes the guitar — and composition — places few have ever gone. Safe journey! “Test” “Walking” “Vision” And a cover … Continue reading

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