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Emir Kusturica and Goran Bregović are the enfants térribles of Balkan pop. Like, all of Balkan pop is mental, but these guys are like double mental on top of that.… More…
As a little kid I played piano every day. I was never ambitious, but I took it for granted that every day I would sit down and make music. For years.… More…
Probably the most successful ad jingle ever. Written in 1880 to spread the word about the first funicular cable car on Mount Vesuvius, the sheet music sold a million copies in the first year alone. That's… More…
A quick sketch for a friend. Tried to keep it both beginner-friendly and close to the original key, got some nasty voice crossings to iron out as a result. Ugh. Really the second voice needs to be a cello… More…
Yet another solid warm-up and intonation exercise from Okudzhava. … More…
This song was originally recorded in 1993 by Chisato Moritaka, who also wrote the lyrics. The story goes, she specifically browsed maps of Japan in search of rivers with a nice-sounding name, and found… More…
Beyond Good and Evil was a rare gem that shone only ever so briefly, but man did it shine. And the score by Christophe Héral was nothing short of spectacular.… More…
When I was a kid learning the piano in Russia, my mom bought me some English sheet music. "Recorder" it said on the cover. I didn't even know that was the English word for a flute. I thought it meant a… More…
There is no specific harmonic backing behind this. Come up with your own uses and make sure to tag me and share with others! More…
Super out-there intro from Yannick with his band Minor Sing. More…
Video coming soon. - An etude I wrote based solely on use of the bebop dominant 7 scale over all chord types. Inspired largely by Sheryl Bailey's "Family of Four" concept. More…
Here is a solo ukulele version of the classic Everly Brothers' Song, (All I Have To Do Is) Dream, that I developed with and for some of my private ukulele students. First, we learned the melody in the… More…
In The Beginning All of the Crystals Are All Happy and Cheery, towards the end there dreary. More…
This is three separate parts combined into solo guitar. Taken from a lead sheet Gilad posted on his website. Originally it's bass, melody, and a syncopated accompanying guitar line. Tried to put them all… More…
Envious of this picking in the fast run - no sleight of hand there re: hybrid, sweeps, etc: just very solid alternate picking, hitting each note with a lot of power. More…
chord references are incomplete/incorrect; additions there appreciated More…
There's something so wonderful about the way Julian leans into the maj7 of Bbm (second bar) that then sits smoothly on the 3rd of Eb7 later in the same bar. More…
I saw Peter Bernstein play in Amsterdam yesterday and filmed the whole show. There were plenty of great licks and ideas I’m itching to transcribe. Here’s a really nice line from Peter during “Take The… More…
A student was asking me some questions about time signatures related to a Tool song, and it got me thinking about what really *is* a time signature, and how there can often be grey area between different… More…
About a month ago, a colleague from work shared a poem by Gloria Fuertes, which made me remember how much I liked her work as a child. I found this other poem, "Ventanas pintadas" and decided to write… More…
The bass and drums in this transcription are approximate at best. Just there for the sake of a rhythm track to play over for practice if desired. More…
There's no fucking way this was John C. Reilly playing. But here's the solo. More…
Not perfect but good enough. There is so much weird timings and pitch-shifts (I'd call the play-style organic in that sense) that are not normal and based on feeling. Let your senses guide you to find… More…
My 5/4 minor/major arrangement of The First Noel. This is a VERY tricky piece to play, primarily on the right hand, but there are some left hand acrobatics going on that are tough to maintain and play… More…
This is my transcription of J.S. Bach's Minuet #2, from the Suite for Solo Cello in G, BMV 1007. This piece works well for drop D tuning, and is very good beginning to intermediate piece. There are a… More…
Playing with versions of a favorite song, but couldn't find any single one I liked, so I mixed a bunch of things together, simplified the licks I cannot quite handle yet, threw in some quarter notes here… More…
"Gipsy Project" was the first (and for many years, only) gypsy jazz record that I listened to. I've since come to feel that "Blues Clair" is a perfect example of what I love about gypsy jazz and Biréli's… More…
Jake making it look easy on his instagram @jwork11… More…
This is a tricky one to notate, because Tallroth plays it with a tuning soundslice can't do. (He's using an octave mandolin which I think is tuned GDGD.) The stave notation is as Tallroth plays it, but… More…