Category Archives: Music
Three Stages of Band Skill Development
Sometimes my daydreams reveal things about my own philosophy… I was just daydreaming a scenario where I was coaching/teaching a band a la BandWorks. I then began telling them about the stages of band skill development: 1 – each person … Continue reading
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I just created a calculator that reduces a birthdate to a single digit. This is something that Tarot readers do when finding someone’s “Soul Card.” See it here I, a month ago or so, created an online interactive guitar chart. … Continue reading
German Engineering
One of my good friends and favorite guitarists, Winter from the band Pandemonaeon, has a blog on learning guitar. I just found this out today. I like how it’s laid out and I think that anyone who’s interested in learning … Continue reading
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False Dilemmas?
Bass? Guitar? Bass? Guitar? For some reason, I have got it in my head that I have to choose one identity over the other, that I must choose between being Azi the guitarist and Azi the bassist. Is there a … Continue reading
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Music/Math Moment
On a piano, if you go up 12 perfect 5ths, you end up where you started. But that’s the piano, which has less than perfect fifths, so that you can pull this off. If you consider that a Perfect 5th … Continue reading
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The Calendar and The Keyboard
Last night, I got up in a mad fit of inspiration. “You have that crazy look,” my wife declared, “What’s going on?” I ran into the living room and grabbed my notebook. I drew a little keyboard, one octave worth, … Continue reading
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ZPD, Chaos/Order, melodies, song structure, narrative skills and Jazz
I was reading about Lev Semenovich Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory of cognitive development and learned something called the “Zone of Proximal Development” or “ZPD.” ZPD describes the sweet-spot between information or lessons that a student has already mastered (and is therefore … Continue reading
Why blog?
After I stopped doing Livejournal a while back, I thought I would never Blog again. It wasn’t until my Fiancee, Leila Jo, started doing Crafting the Sacred, that I realized that I could use an outlet. There are a few … Continue reading
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