5 Year-old Chinese Boy Operating a Payloader Like a Professional – YouTube
▶ 5 Year-old Chinese Boy Operating a Tractor / Payloader Like a Professional – YouTube. I wasn’t much older than this boy when I learned the very same trade. I’ll always be grateful for the lessons and...
View ArticleScience Shows How Musicians’ Brains Are Different From Everybody Elses’– Mic
Anyone who spent hours of their young life practicing fingerings and drilling scales understands that the tedium is real. Thankfully though, new scientific research has concluded without a shadow of a...
View ArticleDavid Bartlett’s debut CD “Lead Your Life By A Song” soon to be released
In the midst of an already busy week, I managed to arrive at a long-awaited and significant moment this evening… I finished the mixing of a CD project I’ve been producing for the past year. My buddy...
View ArticleBasic Guitar Maintenance / Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Want to learn the basics of guitar maintenance? This series of seven articles will introduce you to the basic things you can do to make sure your guitar looks and plays great. via Basic Guitar...
View ArticleHow playing an instrument benefits your brain – Anita Collins – YouTube
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on?...
View ArticleCanada wants Obama when we’re done with him
I’ve been seeing this clipping circulate recently. It’s hilarious, actually. It all sounds good… unless you happen to have a grasp of basic economics and (more importantly) realize how things are done...
View ArticleThe quintessential Thanksgiving Day song
Friends… I deeply regret not taking the time to post this back there a couple days ago on Thanksgiving Day when I had the opportunity. I could have, but I didn’t. There I was, surrounded by a delicious...
View Article12 Amazing Things Scientists Discovered This Year About People Who Listen to...
In 2014, scientists looked closer than ever before at why exactly music makes us feel so powerfully. And they found some amazing and unprecedented things. Studies revealed that music can shape our...
View ArticleThe Biggest Scam In The History Of Mankind (Documentary) – Hidden Secrets of...
I know I harp on things like this. Perhaps you’ve already learned of the nefarious ways of central banks and the current (and corrupt) global monetary system, and are tempted to keep surfing. You’ve...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to an old friend
“Dogs lives are too short. Their only fault, really. “ – Agnes Sligh Today was one of those days you just dread when you have a canine companion. The dread is unavoidable. You know the moment you bring...
View ArticleTBT: A band in Muncie Indiana called ARTKA c.2005
In 2005 I was teaching at Muncie Music Center, and another fine plank-spanker who taught guitar at the store, Greg Tanner, approached me with the idea of throwing together a blues/jazz/rock quintet and...
View Article10 Compelling Studies Favoring Greater Support for K-12 Music Education –...
“… when looking at the scientific studies showing all of us how truly significant music education is to the intellectual and artistic development of a young person … the value a music educator provides...
View ArticleTBT: I used to be a superhero
Not many folks know this… I used to be a superhero. Here I am getting ready to save the world as we know it back in 2006. The hours were cool, but the pay sucked, ’cause everyone wants you to save...
View ArticleA cold-weather ride
In prep for the Springtime riding season, last week I took the bike to Dixon’s ATV out on Gatesville Road for servicing — changing the oil and filter, flush and refill the radiator, check all other...
View ArticleA Musical Fix for American Schools – WSJ
Music literally expands your brain. In a 2009 study in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers used an MRI to study the brains of 31 6-year-old children, before and after they took lessons on musical...
View ArticleExplainer: what is music therapy?
The techniques used by music therapists can include writing songs for or with clients, free or structured movement to music activities, singing and vocal activities, improvisation, playing traditional...
View ArticleThe world is being FUC’d to death
Contemplating, as I often do, the Keynesian machinations of the Federal Reserve and central banksters worldwide, I observe that one thing they all have in common is the practice of printing up snotbags...
View ArticleFoster’s Banjo Primer – free PDF
Several years ago I copped a teaching position at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, IN (currently on sabbatical) under the auspices of the Center for Lifelong Learning, and among the courses I...
View ArticleReliving the Crash of ‘29 – LewRockwell.com
How I spend my mornings… reading LewRockwell.com. It’s my idea of how best to start one’s day, putting my remaining brain cells to work. This one was written by Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995), dean of...
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