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Playing Tumbao and Montunos Together, Fingerstyle Salsa Guitar Studies/Lessons

To learn to play a tumbao and montuno at the same time on guitar – Practice each part separately, slowly and with a beat, then try to keep the groove as you combine the two parts! (IMHO 🙂 Here’s some different examples/studies and info and links about ideas to learn how to play salsa guitar […]

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Good vibes Music Self improvement

3 simple ways to practice music

go dancing! sing along work on your time when you walk Go dancing That’s right you internalize the beat while you dance.  Pretty much all music can be associated to a dance. Folks still dance to reggae and salsa. Modern jazz and classical are danceable but most folks haven’t danced to them in awhile! At […]

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Presenting recorded music

I’ve been looking into different ways to provide music to people around the world.  Two companies make CD holders out of recycled paper. Groove House and ReBinder.  Check out GrooveHouse’s website because they have a whole stamp and sticker system to decorate their blank recycled CD covers. They have some cool examples of CD artwork. […]

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Playing classical music on steel string guitar

So I’m finishing up mixing and ‘mastering’ an album that I’ve been working on.  Mastering proves to be a very challenging endeavor.  And mastering live sound in a very live room adds two more degrees of toughness!  My ears really opened up by the end of several sleepless nights! Hopefully we will record the entire […]

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Good vibes Health Self improvement

Relaxation exercise #2

YogaToday created this video.  The entire exercise takes 4 minutes and 20 seconds to complete.  Basically you breath through one nostril and then through the other nostril.  Doing so helps you to calm and relax your thoughts and body! There seem to be two main variations to the way the people hold the right hand. […]