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Play, Play, Play the Blues
This is an archive post ~ originally published May 4, 2017 and updated in 2018 When I’m trying to teach … or learn … anything – it always helps me to have a song. This is one I wrote for a workshop on the Blues. The way we did this is that...
Blues As Creative Structure
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jun. 18, 2013 and updated in 2018 I recently had a mastermind session with music therapist, coach & harpist Trista Hill about my online program Blues Harp-Style, a 6-Week program on the Blues specifically for harp...
Blues Lets You Tell Your Story with Music
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 13, 2016 and updated in 2018 A few years back at a show in the Boston area, I launched into an impromptu story of my life and how I started playing the harp – all while playing the harp. Afterwards, the theater owner...
Speak Your Musical Mind … BLUES on Harp
This is an archive post ~ originally published Jan. 3, 2016 and updated in 2018 Would you read every word from a script if you were pouring your heart out to your best friend? No? Then why read every single note when you’re trying to express yourself on the harp? As a...
Blues Harp Riff-of-the-Day!
I always wanted to create a project like this: A 6 day series where harp players get one short riff each day and an MP3 Playalong Blues so they can just down and play their HARPS out!! I created the “Riff-of-the-Day” mini-course as a warmup for my...
Inside the Creativity Gym
Are some people just BORN creative? “Creative” is the word I hear most when people describe me — but I didn’t really know how I got creative until I started teaching creativity to harp players in my online Hip Harp Academy. That’s when ...
We Fear Change
Years ago I heard about a master-teacher named Tony Montanaro. He was a legendary performer and coach. People called him a creative GURU. I wanted so badly to work with him. I knew he would take my performance to a whole new level. But I was scared. So I kept putting...
Experiment #1 ~ Join the “Impulse” Experiment
JOIN ME FOR “Strings of Passion” Creativity Experiment #1! Here’s How: Watch this short video, try the experiment … then – if you play the HARP – join me in “Strings of Passion,” the first class of 2018 in my “Hip Harp Academy” for 10 glorious...
Instagram Party with Alex the Fool
Alex and I were in our semi-weekly creative-buddy session on Skype last week. He said he was about to go to Sint Maarten for a “Clowns without Borders” tour, and wanted to be able to post the cool things he’ll be doing on the trip in Instagram...
