One of my all time favorite quotes that I keep on the wall near my desk is the one from Marriane Williamson that starts “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” The quote ends with: ” As we
Read MoreI 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
Read More“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
Read MoreI love stories like “Through the Looking Glass” where you live through the characters as they suddenly pop into other worlds, strange dimensions of time and space. One of the reasons i enjoy learning music is that this process is the audio version of walking through the looking glass. When
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I’ve been re-reading Stephen Pressfields book “Going Pro”, and he tells this story about how Rosanne Cash had this disturbing dream about trying to join a conversation with Bonnie Raitt and some guy named Art, and Art dismissed her as a dilettante… This dream kept haunting Rosanne, and caused her
Read MoreDo you want to be a genius harmonica player? You’re in luck… read on: A while ago, there was a lively debate on Harp L about who were the real geniuses. The general direction that this thread was going in was that some people were geniuses, and others were not,
Read MoreI had harmonica tab for Auld Lang Syne ready to post here, but for some reason I am unable to upload the PDF…. The gremlins of technology are messing with me again… So here is my challenge to you: You know the melody – start on blow 6 on your
Read MoreI recently posted an email about how I fell off the path of practice. I ended up getting some replies out of the clear blue that just floored me. One of those resonses came from a man named Dave Moran, a fiddler and harmonica player from Colorado. Here’s Dave’s bio
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