Category: Creative Music Blog

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery - Stephen...

When leading jazz improvisation workshops, I like to teach simple riff blues...

I'm preparing a clinic for music educators at the WMEA conference in February...

Paint as you like and die happy – Henry Miller Achieving success and...

Internalizing the sound, character, and mood-states of modes helps us develop a...

Western music education often perpetuates a narrow and unbalanced view of...

Should professionals ever play for free or exposure? The intersection of art and...

Thematic improvisation is the process of embellishing, developing, changing,...

I recently put together a presentation about the inner experience of a musical...

Playing what your hear? The chord changes? The melody? Listening to the band?...