Wow! You have to check this out. I just discovered this organization, and I couldn’t help but think, “What a great idea. This should spread all over the country.” is a nonprofit organization formed in 1999. Originally founded by Michael Solomon and Vivek Tiwary while doing volunteer work at a cancer center, this non-profit organization brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities.  uses music to promote and complement the healing proce... Read Full Story

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Just the other day, a musician friend was telling me he’s thinking about starting his own record label business, and that got me thinking. I began looking on the internet for information that might be available on that subject. As usual, there’s a lot! Almost all of the “experts” on the subject agreed on one thing.  To make the best “deals”, it’s best to have a lawyer who’s familiar with the music industry, and associated contracts in particular... Read Full Story

Music is a great gift to give this Christmas so we put together a list of some which are available in the United Kingdom. They may be available in your country, if when you read this you are elsewhere in the world, but you will need to establish that before you can buy. I have chosen music gadgets assuming that just about everyone these days will possess a PC with a USB connection. However, the second beauty of these USB devices is their ease of installation. Also, if you decide you want to u... Read Full Story

After a bit more research, I discovered that there are actually Courses that claim they will teach you how to develop Perfect Pitch. I even found a site that reviewed the most well-known courses,  ReviewsNest,  and they recommend 2 that are available: Read Full Story

This post is a bit “technical”, but very interesting.  If you wade through it, though, there’s some fun at the end. Wikipedia: Absolute pitch, or perfect pitch, is “the ability to identify the frequency or musical name of a specific tone, or, conversely, the ability to reproduce a frequency, frequency level, or musical pitch without comparing the tone with any objective reference tone, i.e., without using relative pitch.” Naming/labeling of notes need not be verb... Read Full Story

A few days ago, myself and a couple friends were gabbing, and we heard a siren. Jokingly, someone asked what note it was. Well, none of us could do anything more than make a ballpark guess. At that point, the discussion turned to the subject of “perfect pitch”. Naturally, I was reminded of a story I heard when I was working at Caribou Ranch. So I told them my story - I think it was Bruce Botnick who told this story, but I’m not absolutely sure. It came up when we were overdu... Read Full Story