Last night Demi Lovato sang a Whitney Houston-inspired rendition of the American National Anthem at the Super Bowl, but the orchestral arrangement behind her vocals was...maybe a little weak. Let's...
Why do we hate the music that we do? I think it is partially because of a musical "uncanny valley" where we have a revulsion to things that are somewhat like what we connect with, but fall incredib...
Here are seven T H I C C arranging techniques I used in my arrangement of Carly Rae Jepsen's Run Away With Me at studio 42, featuring Kate Steinberg (aka Emily Prime)
What does Christmas music sound like when it's microtonal? And when a lo-fi beat is put behind it? Let's find out! Playing some 24TET and 19TET and 17TET Christmas tunes.
Actually, it might be a bit more complicated than that. It, along with many other songs in Rock and Pop music, uses a chord loop vamp as its harmonic scheme, and b...
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There are 7 levels of Jazz Harmony, and we'll explore each of them through reharmonizing the chorus of one of my favorite tunes from 2019 - Lizzo's Juice. Thanks to Jae Sot...
Katy Perry just lost a $2.8 million dollar court case against Christian rapper Flame. The case hinged on the testimony of the plaintiff’s expert musicologist Todd Decker.
My band Sungazer plays to backing tracks - are we cheating? Or are we simply continuing the tradition of Pierre Schaefer and the electroacoustic avant-garde of the 1950's? Or...is that just a prete...
Paul Davids and I worked out how to juggle egg shakers polyrhythmically at Thomann's Gearhead University #tgu19. It turns out that #polyrhythms, when juggled, reveal a lot about coordination and rh...
I toured Central Asia with the 5-piece jazz rock band Aberdeen on behalf of the American State Department for three weeks in May. In other words, I was a j a z z diplomat, and it was seriously one ...
Also, lots of other questions like “What’s it like playing with 2 drummers?” “What key is Rihanna’s Umbrella in? and What are your thoughts on Thank You Scientist?”
Also, what is Harmony of the Spheres/Musica Universalis? What is your opinion on music critics? And many more awesome and interesting questions about music!
I'm a fan of the Yule Log, and other Slow TV things, so I did I guess like...an homage to that? I watch a video to its completion while riding the 4 train.
Being a freelancer means I get to play a lot of different gigs in many different situations. Come and check out some of the stuff I do being a professional NYC-based musician.
I played a gig with Grace Kelly down in Annapolis, and she took a really, really, really long cadenza on a V7 chord to end the show. Hope you enjoy this gig vlog!
Aberdeen has a new album that's out now! It's called Downpour, and we celebrated it's release at a SOLD OUT show at Rockwood Music Hall in the lower east side of NYC.
Zac Zinger organized a hell of a house band for the Bit Awards, an indie game awards ceremony held at Parsons at the New School, put on by Playcrafting. I got a chance to play his killer arrangemen...
I was a sub on a gig with the Rock Dance Collective, but could only go over the music with the MD of the show in a taxi before the gig. Hilarity ensues.
I played another Apartment Sessions! We crammed 62 people (56 musicians, 5 camera people and 1 sound guy) into a tiny Brooklyn apartment to play an amazing and beautiful piece of music by Gabriel K...