The Blogging Musician has now reached 1000 Followers! Thank you to each and everyone of you for following my blog. I have new instalments of my travel blogs A Postcard to Blackpool and Prague: The Musical City coming to you very soon. Music-wise, they’ll be brand new episodes of Acoustic Corner and the next entry in my […]
Part 3: ‘When You’re in Love” by Adam Harkus. Live from Acoustic Corner. Here’s a brand new song written only yesterday morning (11th March 2017) in all of 30 minutes. A simple message above the strength that love gives you to get through life’s challenges. The inspiration came from wanting to change things up a little,
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Part 2: ‘The Indian’ by Adam Harkus. Live from Acoustic Corner. I wrote ‘The Indian’ way back in 1999 as part of my unreleased and un-named third album. It’s song about the plight of the peaceful native American Indians against the cruelty of the ‘White Man’. A powerful message long forgotten, but one we can
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The first in a series of stripped back acoustic performances, live from Acoustic Corner. I’ll be performing a variety of material from my back catalogue, new stuff I haven’t produced yet, and even the odd cover. Just me and my Acoustic, live, and (hopefully) in one take. ‘You’ll find a way’ is a track from
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If you’ve read my book Goa: A Lesson In Life (what are you waiting for?!), you may be interested to know that the beginnings of my album This is Who I Am were formed in that tiny room and out on the terrace of AnjunaPalms: Goa, with the tracks Over There and Happy Home making it onto the final
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Have you ever wondered which apps, software and technology would be best to use in order to best develop your guitar playing techniques and support your practice time? A few years ago, I began to record my thoughts on this topic as the basis of a useful article for others. It is very easy to
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First of all, a huge thanks to an exceptionally talented musician and writer; Thompson Crowley for his piece on songwriting How I Learnt to Write Good Songs. Please visit his blog which is a fascinating account of his musical journey through life, and also contains some great music. Next up is the equally talented Jen Msumba with her heartwarming live
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Tune in, Tone up! A fortnightly recording of Dan Davies giving Gary Shilladay advanced guitar lessons with loads of pace, ideas, advice and guitar talk. It’s available on SoundCloud, iTunes and Stitcher and topics include how to improvise over 12 bar blues progressions, some neoclassical shredding ideas, country guitar playing techniques, funk rhythm playing and
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By Jen Msumba This is a song I wrote late one night when I couldn’t sleep. It came to me all at once. Soon after a rough patch in my life. But I tend to always find the bright side of things, no matter what life throws at me. And that..is the beauty in between.
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