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Sunday, July 19th, 2015

🦋 Finger picking with your wrist

It is a mistake when finger picking to hold your right wrist in place relative to the strings. When you do that -- I have even gone as far as to hold my forearm against the face of the guitar to anchor my wrist -- all of the force for your fingers and thumb striking the strings will come from the muscles of your palm and fingers. If instead you incorporate motion of your wrist and forearm, you will bring the muscles of your arm into play -- and simultaneously bring into play the mass of your hand and wrist, increasing the momentum of the picking digit. All this translates into speed and power. The trade-off at first is your playing can get sloppy, you will need time to adjust and relearn the muscle memory of the strings' positions. But that does come with time.

posted afternoon of July 19th, 2015: Respond
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Saturday, July 18th, 2015

🦋 Dancing Barefoot (solo)

posted evening of July 18th, 2015: 1 response
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2015

🦋 Trippy

posted evening of July 8th, 2015: 3 responses
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🦋 Escher animated

(plus look!)

posted evening of July 8th, 2015: 2 responses
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Sunday, June 28th, 2015

🦋 Going for a ride

and loving it!

posted afternoon of June 28th, 2015: Respond
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Saturday, June 27th, 2015

🦋 El Aleph de Katchadjian

Not totally sure what to make of this yet... It is at the very least a fascinating idea for a project...

posted morning of June 27th, 2015: Respond
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

🦋 Ceres awakens from her slumbers



(via Orbis Quintus)

posted evening of June 23rd, 2015: Respond

Saturday, May 16th, 2015

🦋 Ragtime in D

Ragtime in D

The Modesto Kid
at Lonesome Nickel Studios in South Orange, NJ
May 16, 2015 (my birthday concert, sort of! :))
  1. "Rag Mama" (Blind Boy Fuller, Jim Kweskin)
  2. "Here I Go" (Syd Barrett)
  3. "Clean Break" (Jeremy Osner)
  4. "Drinkin Wine (spo-dee-o-dee)" (Granville "Stick" McGhee)

posted afternoon of May 16th, 2015: 3 responses
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Saturday, April 4th, 2015

🦋 Hobo Nickel

Just putting the finishing touches on my first record! I will not be selling it online to begin with, but if you'd be interested in ordering a copy just drop me a line and I'm sure we can work something out.

Front and back covers:

posted morning of April 4th, 2015: 1 response

Sunday, February 22nd, 2015

🦋 The Primetone(tm) Apostropick

The plectrum saga continues... I was inspired by the Tortex(tm) Talon to try the same idea in a different plectrum material -- the Primetone, which I had previously not liked that much, was the material I chose because it is extremely rigid. It came out great! Check out the recording of "This Land is Your Land" linked below -- it was made using the Apostropick on the bass strings and fingerstyle on the tenor.

posted evening of February 22nd, 2015: 3 responses

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