Viento de Agua – La Reina Mía: Daniel Díaz y su Tripandero

Tool’s Adam Jones directed and composed the music for the below video: “The Witness.” It’s a trippy short film, with a great groove behind it (who knew 14/8 could groove, and when the drums come in, hoo!). The film’s purpose is to announce Adam Jones’s 1979 Les Paul Custom guitar for sale (yours for $19K)….

Playing with backing tracks is usually more fun than playing with a metronome. Not always more helpful, but nearly always more fun. I use iTabla Pro, Brazilian Drum Machine, Afro-Latin Drum Machine, and Djembe Studio pretty regularly. I just downloaded the latest rhthm backing track/metronome DrumGenius and love it. Not only does it have a…

For Bb instruments (trumpet, clarinet, tenor sax), you’re a whole step higher than the piano, so your notes, if you want to play along are the C# minor pentatonic: If you play alto sax, you’ll need to play the Ab minor pentatonic scale to play along:

Bass player and all around musical braintrust Adam Neely on how to play bass. Subscribe to his YouTube channel.

I’ve got two pianos that need some love: in my teaching studio is a 1919 juggernaut of an upright that is a full half step flat (and surprisingly in tune to itself), that has wonderful tone, and a much smaller upright at home that is creeping out of tune. Entropy as measured by intonation (or…

TLDR version:Introverts do worse.Extroverts do better.(HUGE caveat: if you know even a little about research or life in general, you’ll know that this is a blatant, egregious generalization.) Drill down by reading Dr. Williamson’s short article, and pursuing some of her excellent links and graphs. Source: When should you listen to music to boost task…

Chapter 31: Going Mental in The Practice of Practice is all about mental practice. Get some more tips and tricks below. Get a copy for yourself or as a great gift for the other musicians in your life. Check out Adam Neely’s YouTube channel. You’re bound to find something interesting and/or useful. Check out Dr….

Education can happen anywhere. In fact, some education outside of school can be better than what you’ll find in any school. It depends on what you’re after, right? Here’s veteran musician and trumpeter Chase Sanborn on the topic.