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Tonight I'm teaching guitar (and guitar pedagogy) to the NYU music ed students. I'm planning to devote the entire time to the right hand, to rhythm. In the internet age,
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Okay! Clearly, you people want to read about Schenker! Here, I will add some context to this NY Times article so you can understand who this Schenker person is, what
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Public-facing note to self: tell the story of my learning jazz guitar Okay, so the story of my learning jazz guitar is this. When I was in college, I was
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Okay, so now I have all these dudes in my mentions defending the idea of "innate" talent and genius. Let me offer to you the counterexample of my late stepfather.
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Narratives of Mozart as a magical genius grind my gears. I firmly believe that "talent" is not innate. It's the product of means, motive and opportunity. Even in Mozart's case.https://twitter.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1335
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Over on the Adam Neely video comment thread on the Music Teachers FB group, have once again re-entered the debate about whether the blues and its many descendants should be
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Reading @mdthib and @ethan_iverson on chord-scale theory in jazz education, how it's pedagogically useful, but only to a point. You have to start somewhere with improvisation, and scales are a
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