Mixtape 2022-06
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Mixtape 2022-05
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Mixtape 2022-04
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Mixtape 2022-03
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Mixtape 2022-02
This month the result is really a “Mix”. I do include things that I did enjoy over the month so that the result can be bizarre, like this month. From classic...
Mixtape 2022-01
Welcome back!
Jazz Historically Significant Recordings by Jamey Aebersold
I agree with the first sentence of Jamey Aebersold “The Red Book”:
The Jazz Standards Book
I’ll explain it here quickly if you do not know what Jazz Standards (JS) are. If you do, you can skip this paragraph. JS are music compositions that the Jazz...
Mixtape 2021-12
I have no explanation, but December is a sad month for me. I guess there are many things in this month that I do not enjoy. That is why this list will be a b...
Mixtape 2021-11
Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of math-rock. You may ask, what is math-rock? And I have no honest answer to it. I understand that it is music with an u...
Mixtape 2021-10
Hello everyone, as promised in my previous post, here is the mixtape for October. This one is a bit special because I could choose among the discoveries I’ve...
Mixtape
Do you remember the mixtapes? I do, and I miss them a lot.
Piano Challenge, May
“Jose, you are doing a great job working every day from 7 to 8 AM at the piano. \o/”
Piano Challenge, April
This month I decided that I will be making a trophy per month. That means that finishing the whole Piano Marvel method and technique will take me a year more...
Piano Challenge, March
Late, but here I am. In March I made a huge mistake. I decided to learn a classic score from J.S.Bach. Initially, It looked pretty repetitive and achievable,...
Piano challenge, February
February was all about Level 3 of Piano Marvel.
David Byrne, How Music Works
It sounds heartfelt. It doesn’t look like the author tries to sell you the music industry or even his music. It sounds like telling facts, always remembering...
Piano challenge, January
So far, so good. I did manage to put in more than 1500 minutes into Piano Marvel and quickly advance on the easy levels. I finish levels one and two and star...
Piano Journey month one
I started to learn guitar about thirty years ago. I did learn the basic chords and played tons of songs just with that. Whenever I found a weird chord, I lea...