Ted Gioia is a wonderful writer. I really enjoy many of his articles through substack. He’s a musician and I’d also say great cultural writer that talks through many musical ideas. I highly recommend you read his material, but this weeks letter is just bizarre. Mr. Gioia’s premise is that bad music will go by…
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Mark Joyce (Lead Guitar), Tom Giordano (Bass Guitar), Ben Godsoe (Drums), Adam Black (Sound) And Stan Farrell singing his original song “Old Boat” by Wizbe along with Rhythm Guitar Playing live at the Hallowell Band Stand at the Harlow Art Gallery in Hallowell Maine May 2022.
So this was a message I heard today about the difference between a pro songwriter and an amateur songwriter. If you’re amateur you write the song first, pro has a reason for writing the song. As Paul McCartney said in a radio interview in 2006 “we were trying to write hit songs” at the beginning.…
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John Prine, Summer’s End Here’s my breakdown so far of Summer’s End: Key of D (video has him playing capo 2 (key of C) So in C: notes would be: C Dm Em F G Am _ FORM: Intro-4 bars Verse-8 (drums start here) V-8 (start to hear some violin underneath-slowly builds to violin solo(ish))…
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