THE origins of traditional Japanese music reach back more than a thousand years. Included are classical or refined music, chamber music, theater, folk and festival music, as well as a host of vocal forms. This treasury of music was passed on from generation to generation without the help of musical scores. Between the third and [...]
There is no feeling like the feeling of creating art with a musical instrument. Jamming is an art form like no other. The art of jamming is the delicate balance of improvisational music between two or more instruments. One style of jamming is the two guitar, one bass, one percussionist set. Typically used by the [...]
Rhythm is everything that has to do with organization of musical elements in time. Rhythm includes pace, tempo, meter and an almost infinite number of ways in which long or short durations of sound and silence make up patterns in time. These manipulations of meter to form patterns are important factors because they are the [...]
From an early age I recognized that music had a deeply emotional and spiritual effect on me. Growing up in a musical house hold, where both my parents performed and recorded in semi-professional church groups sessions at which I would fall asleep inside my Dad’s bass guitar or guitar case it was inevitable that I [...]
