Regina Spektor - Samson

Lena Horne - Stormy Weather

Banjo Blues

Our band opened for Little Jimmy Dickens at the Grand Ole Opry last weekend. Here's some video - I'm the one in the front row far right.

Yodeling the Classics

You've simply not lived until you've heard Mary Schneider yodel Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Scroll down this page to hear this stunning rendition. You'll never feel the same way again. Prepare yourself.

A "nauseoso" tempo

Play the canola horn condescendingly and with plagiarismo. Explanation here.

Silence in Reykjavik

Emiliana Torrini covers Simon and Garfunkel.

Heardrum

My daughter is asking for a drum set and I'm imagining something like this. What would you do?

Press play to energize

Press play to relax

Electone magic

Carry on that practice . . .

Jake Shimabukuro plays "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"

Big Steps and Brainwaves

I've noted this quote before . . .
Music is the pleasure that the human soul encounters from counting without knowing that it is counting. -- Leibniz
. . . but it came back to me again when I watched this video"

The music of birds

Many musical works have paid homage to bird songs, including The Goldfinch by Vivaldi, The Hen by Rameau , The Cuckoo and the Nightingale by Handel, and Cirrus Minor by Pink Floyd. It was, of course, Father Kircher who pioneered the musical transcription of bird vocalizations in his Musurgia Universalis. But nobody, to our knowledge, went to greater lengths to notate avian music than the early 20th-century naturalist F. Schuyler Mathews. More.

One of the greatest songs. Ever.

I would love to be able to play like this. Chuck Berry just tears into his guitar playing Johnny B. Goode. Zowza! (audio only, no video)

Vivaldi Jam

Vivaldi’s “Summer” on acoustic guitar and violin.

Anacrusis

Footfalls call and shoes respond
catcalls break the stage beyond
Rhythms cue a tapping wand

Elemental syncopation
tapping out a conversation
Backbeat echoes concentration

Ziiinnnggg!

Etude Op. 25 No. 6

Notice the unusual hand placement and crossovers. We're still trying to figure it out. Philip Glass meets ABBA.

Name that tune

Hint: It's not rap.

Andy McKee, Drifting

Music is the pleasure that the human soul encounters from counting without knowing that it is counting. -- Leibniz

Perfect pitch?

Or tone deaf? Find out here.