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140 Character Conference! I’m a character :)
Wednesday, 27 May, 2009 – 12:29 | View Comments
140 Character Conference! I’m a character :)

Jeff Pulver announced on Twitter about the 140 Character Conference.
So here’s what I had to say within 140 characters:
I write ♫ and would ♥ to attend because we’re all Rock★’s. Social media is awesome-not …

Teachers Guide to Music, Media, and Copyright review
Tuesday, 26 May, 2009 – 12:05 | View Comments
Teachers Guide to Music, Media, and Copyright review

James Frankel recently wrote a book released on Hal Leonard titled “Teachers Guide to Music, Media, and Copyright”. It sparked my interest, as I am a big fan of Larry Lessig and Creative Commons, and …

Get offline
Sunday, 24 May, 2009 – 6:59 | View Comments
Get offline

The most important part to being online is being offline. Break away from your computer. Meet people, go on tour.
The bottom line in all of this is that hugs and handshakes make the difference.

So get …

Tension Chords
Friday, 22 May, 2009 – 15:35 | View Comments
Tension Chords

Using tension in your chords is very effective. Music (and life) is all a series of tension and release. So to play a chord that is outside of a key signature, it creates tension, which …

Flavor Chords
Friday, 22 May, 2009 – 15:30 | View Comments
Flavor Chords

Using basic chords might be all that is called for – but what if you wanted to add color? What about piano? Well, look no further! Here is a quick overview (pun intended) of the …

AOL Music still biggest Music Site in the world ahead of Myspace
Saturday, 16 May, 2009 – 15:06 | View Comments
AOL Music still biggest Music Site in the world ahead of Myspace

As of May 14, 2009 AOL Music is still the biggest Music website. in the world with over 27 million listeners. Meanwhile MySpace is in a close second.
This raises an interesting point – is Myspace …

Twitter brings back @Replies after Uproar
Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 – 16:03 | View Comments
Twitter brings back @Replies after Uproar

Today, Twitter did the dumbest thing ever, and took away @Replies from people. Then finally, after the community uproar decided to retract their steps and bring it back.

As a marketing and social media guy specializing …

Revision 3 NYC May 2009 Meetup at Lunasa’s
Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 – 13:30 | View Comments
Revision 3 NYC May 2009 Meetup at Lunasa’s

To learn more about NYC Revision 3 events go here

In this picture David Chaitt (@Chaitters), Jon Accarrino (@Accarrino), Jim Louderback (@JLouderb), me, Anthony Perry (ajperry74), and Daniel Delaney.

Last night I hosted my first Revision3 meetup. …

Behind the Tech21 Music Factory!
Saturday, 9 May, 2009 – 20:37 | View Comments
Behind the Tech21 Music Factory!

In my show you’ll notice I use the Trademark 30 amplifier and their assortment of pedals.
The other day I visited Tech 21 and was met by Dale Krevens and Andrew Barta, long time sponsors of …

What you see in NYC Subways
Friday, 8 May, 2009 – 9:28 | View Comments
What you see in NYC Subways

Epic. Enjoy

Building Scales by Skipping Strings
Thursday, 7 May, 2009 – 8:00 | View Comments
Building Scales by Skipping Strings

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When you’re trying to ‘break the cycle’ and learn new scales (or memorize ones) then its easy to learn them by skipping strings. This is because you use …

Solos are like Talking
Thursday, 7 May, 2009 – 7:54 | View Comments
Solos are like Talking

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So let’s speak to each other!

Accidentals in Key Sigatures
Wednesday, 6 May, 2009 – 16:29 | View Comments
Accidentals in Key Sigatures

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This is similar to the Circle of Fifths. Watch above and learn!

Week #21: Crab Drill
Monday, 4 May, 2009 – 8:46 | View Comments
Week #21: Crab Drill

The Crab Drill is the idea of making your hands walk up and down the guitar similar to how a crab would do it. This purpose is to fool your brain into doing patterns that …