I don’t know about you, but I have had a rocky relationship over the years with the idea of commitments. Im my musical life, there have been times when I was so excited about learning and playing music that it was not a conscious decision to commit myself, I was
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I found a great phrase this morning in a book by Steve Chandler: “the voice of your spirit”. I like this Phrase. It zeros in on what I was trying to describe a while ago when I wrote to you about discovering your own voice by recording yourself and then
“If you don’t live it, it ain’t going to come out of your horn.” – Louis Armstrong I love this quote because it reminds me that playing the harmonica gets all tangled up with the rest of my life, and that’s the way it should be. It also means that
Why do you play music? Why do you play the harmonica? I like to ask myself these questions from time to time, and the answers keep changing. What is it about music that is so compelling? I have had one insight lately that keeps asking me to get it down,
Lay Down My Burden – Grant Dermody and Friends Grant Dermody is a Seattle based harmonica player, music instructor, vocalist and song writer who has honed his skills over the years playing with acoustic bluesmen John Jackson, Guy Davis, Honeyboy Edwards, John Cephas and Phil Wiggins, Louisiana Red, bluegrass
This is one of those songs that has been kicking around in my head for years. I heard a version of this by the Modern Jazz Quartet many years ago and they used a repeating riff to set the mood. I have played with this on long car rides, on
I tried using a metronome many years ago. I did it out of a vague sense of duty. That somehow it was good for me I bought a mechanical metronome called a Mini-Taktell. I never liked it . It seemed cold and heartless. Then I found out the metronome was
On The Road Again. My Friend Jamie Rounds is a songwriter living in Nashville. He recently invited me to add harp to a cover of the old Canned Heat classic “On The Road Again”. We did this through file exchange online – he sent me his recording, I sent him
I created this PDF with working links as a way of answering some frequently asked questions about screws and nuts, tool sources, and other basic questions. Enjoy! www.rsleigh.com/RSHarpResources.pdf
I wanted to give you a heads up on a concert that I will be part of. On Sunday, May 15, 8:15 p.m. the Wooster Symphony Orchestra will be doing Nelson Riddle’s “Cross Country Suite,” which is an 11-movement work for solo clarinet, orchestra, and jazz band. Paquito D’Rivera is