Category: Music
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Dreary gray winter day, I’m looking out my window at the melting remains of last week’s snow. Need to turn around the energy for the afternoon’s projects, time to pull in the heavyweights: Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben. https://album.link/i/1600510419 Also on:
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Guitar Resources page
I’m building out a page with resources I use for learning/practicing guitar but as I’m building it I’m thinking it would be much better with a database on the backend to store this information rather than just writing a bunch of text. I feel like there’s got to be a way to do this (sql…
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Nextcloud for bands
Playing in a band generates all sorts of files that you want to share with your band mates, from live show recordings, videos, promo materials, charts, etc. Some of us were getting tired of shelling out the money to Dropbox to accommodate this sharing. So, this past weekend I spun up a self hosted Nextcloud…
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2023 Musical Developments and Review
This past year felt like a big year for me as far as improved or developing musicianship compared with recent prior years. Most likely this is because this is the first year in 35+ years of playing guitar that I kept a rehearsal/practice journal and made even the slightest effort to structure my practice around…
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Fender TSA Flight Case Parts
Updated! See below The latches on my Fender TSA flight case are all shot. Rather than toss the case, I want to try to fix it. It took me a while to find a number for Fender. (At the time of this post the number for consumer relations at Fender is 1-800-856-9801). After a while…
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ChatGPT- Home Recording Studio Assistant
Configuring a recording setup with an iMac, Audient iD22, Behringer ADA8200, and an outboard stereo compressor. Connection types among the devices include USB, ADAT optical, and 1/4″ TRS cables.
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Crazy Fingers
I’ve been ruminating over how the chord changes to Crazy Fingers ever came about. The changes don’t feel like something you’d come at organically outside of some melody. Last night my son turned me on to Distorto from the ‘75 studio rehearsals and I now think that Jerry had this really interesting melody in mind…
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Re-listening
The shift to hosting a personal Navidrome server has shifted my listening habits, fostering more repeated listening contrasted with Apple Music’s constant novelty aspect.
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Apple (country) Music Genres
I’m not really sure that I use genre information too much in organizing my library, but that’s not to say that I don’t want it to be correct when it’s applied. My years working in the classical music world taught me how painfully insufficient existing music metadata tagging is for classical music — e.g. movements…
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Original Music Links
Experimenting with Linode, S3 storage and Nextcloud to see if I can find an easy way to link to music I want to share. While bluegrass, country and Dead are my primary musical outlets, I like to switch gears (ha, that’s funny in a way that will be clear in a minute) and play with…