This Week on Twitter
- I just shaved (for real, with a razor) for the first time in probably a two years. Usu. I just trim. the things I do for photographs. #
- CG tip: want to get really good at damping with the RH thumb? Do the Giuliani 120 RH studies and pay attention to the bass note values. #
- 21 Tips for Better Guitar Playing http://bit.ly/3WA5xg Some general, easy technical and musical tips to think about. #
- Just got back from the photo shoot. In a week I will have press photos. #
- Off to my weekly deadlifting session. 335 for 5+ tonight. Should be exciting/noisy. #
- Ridiculous. RT @davidjhahn: Musicians locked out of New York musical – replaced with pre-recorded tape http://bit.ly/4rzO7h #
- Is Music Music Inc, the makers of Finale on twitter? If so: please make your product better. and more guitar friendly. #
- My biggest problem with finale is that it moves things that I specifically placed. (sigh) fuck finale. I should ask them for my money back. #
- Listening to @imogenheap 's new album, "Ellipse" http://bit.ly/4BSkLB #
- Just started reading "Everything is Miscellaneous" by David Weinberger http://bit.ly/QDjlw (I think that's an affiliate link?) #
- Yep it was an affiliate link. I tried out amazon's new "Share on twitter" affiliate button thingy. Convenient I suppose. #
- Rallentando vs. Ritardando http://bit.ly/2CbchR some thoughts on why a composer would use both (hint: they have to mean something different) #
- http://bit.ly/3SNvcT Fatal Guitar Lesson (guitar teachers will find this funny) #
- It's very unfortunate that the person who watches over the wikipedia classical guitar page has such a narrow view of what should be on it. #
- Learning a dowland Song to perform with a singer. Scary stuff. Never accompanied a vocalist before. #
- Amen. RT @GuitPatrick: So much easier to choose happiness and let the rest of it go. #
- Not sure when I learned to sight read better, but apparently that happened this year. #
- Uh oh, a search for "no good guitar blogs" brings up me as the first result. http://bit.ly/40ynyu #
- http://bit.ly/24RRdR The Giuliani piece I've been working on (Op. 45) First time recording it. Let me know what you think. #
- Trying to get used to this recording thing in general. I have record Audition CDs later this month. Scary stuff. #
- A new post about changing up the very easy p i m arpeggio to make it more challenging. http://bit.ly/WfxIK #
- Wonder if Mr. Thames sent my guitar yesterday. I was supposed to hear from him, but I didn't. Hope he did! #
- Prepping my resume to submit for school applications. #
- I don't understand applications. Why do I need to upload works experience, activities/awards, education and upload a resume? #
- No school tomorrow. Thank you veterans day! #
- Guitar was sent today! Should get it friday! (very excited) #
- It feels like a reading morning. Not a practicing morning. #
- The idea that scarcity creates professional classes is really amazing to me. #
- 00000 #
- Technique practice round 2: alternation bursts, string crossing, slurs on all strings. #
- http://bit.ly/4A8OWS Xuefei Yang Concert Review #
- Off to teach. Four hours straight tonight. Scary. #
- I would say that about 90% of learning music is just figuring out the notation and doing what's on the page expression-marking-wise. #
- Guitar is in Memphis! (can you tell I'm excited about this?) #
- The guitar gets here tomorrow, but so does @michelle_reinke I wonder who I'll spend more time with… #
- RT @Babblenaggs: RT @badbanana Marching bands are actually homeless orchestras. Tragic, really. #
- I'm spending my afternoon cleaning. Exhausting work really. #
- tryig to figure out the zoom H4. Not going well. All I want to do is play a file back, but apparently I can't! #
- I'm going to want to kill myself recording this audition CD. I really hate this crap. I never play anything well while recording. #
- Going to have wait on the new guitar to do more recording. Even with a nice recorder, I never get enough bass string/separation of voices. #
- If people keep subscribing to my mailing list, I'm going to end up having to pay Mail Chimp. 100+ subscribers already. http://bit.ly/3CbXUh #
- New Lovezors image is up! http://www.lovezors.com/ (this is a site I do for fun with @michelle_reinke ) RT if you like it! #
- New guitar today! Should get here soon. It's "out for delivery," UPS usu. gets here around 10. #
- Guitar's here! See you guys in a week when I'm done breaking it in. #
- I actually have dynamics with the new guitar. Can be crazy loud if I want to! #
- Break from playing so I can do some teaching. #
- Alexandre Tansman's "Variations on a Theme by Scriabin" is an oustanding piece. #
- I guess I'll stop playing my guitar and hang out with @michelle_reinke for a while. #
