A critical component of developing your musical vocabulary and identity is line writing. I prefer to refer to it as micro composition, as...

In the quest for ever expanding our harmonic toolkit we often deep dive triads, 4 note chords, inversions, and other ideas to better comp...

Music is a language, a worthy analogy used often. Like many languages, music uses sound to convey ideas or emotions. Also, like language,...

A degree of facility is required to express ourselves on our instruments. Improving our facility increases our ability affords us the...

This is a follow up article from last week’s first part that covered how I use Excel for deep harmonic analysis and chord on chord ideas...

We all love our tuners and metronomes. They are great musical tools that serve any musician well. But what if I told you that you are...

Writer’s block is a pervasive problem in many mediums. It can be debilitating, cutting off an artist from their productivity. The main...

The performance plateau is an inevitable part of learning anything physical. A musician will experience them many times throughout their...

Socrates famously declared “An unexamined life is not worth living”. A tad melodramatic? Perhaps. Yet, his admonition to “Know thyself”...