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[29 Jun 2009 | No Comment | ]
How to Notate for Classical Guitar

I’ve started working on a new How-To Page for reading and writing classical guitar music. There’s a lot of things that are generally misunderstood and this in hopes of clearing it up.
Currently it’s still in the works. But once it is finish there will be examples and hopefully even audio.
Here’s a link: How To Play and Write Classical Guitar Music.

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[8 Apr 2009 | No Comment | ]
Let the Music Move You

Music is unique among the arts. It captures emotions and feelings and connects people to a deeper level. People can connect with a photo or a movie faster, but rarely to the degree that music does. It connects deep in a person’s roots, identifying with them with an emotion unlike any other form of communication or expression.
Music is life.

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[16 Feb 2009 | One Comment | ]

Here is an article written by Roger Bourland of UCLA about a student who appllied and did not get in.  When I first read this thread I was not angry, I was amazed.  I was impressed.  It’s obvious that the student was not accpected because his musical skills were deemed unfit, which is perfectly reasonable.  But at what point do you go to school for music? At what point do you learn to write, reherse and perform your own compositions?