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Article: The Woodshed: Elements of Improvisation #1: Multi Playing One Note
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 67: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 14, November, 2007 This is the first in a 10 part series about a few basic elements of improvisation for beginner to intermediate levels. ...
Article: Musically Speaking: Who's The Best?
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 66: Who\'s the best? A new student asked me today “Who do you think is the best rock guitarist?” I found myself pausing for a moment without being able to answer by using only ...
Article: From China: Liu Fang
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 65: From China: Liu Fang Every once in a while a musical artist comes along that defines what our Spotlight Zone article section is all about. And that is to bring you the finest ...
Article: The Woodshed : Never good enough
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 64: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 13, October, 2007 Well here we are at our first anniversary and the year just seemed to go by so quick. And it makes me think “What ...
Article: From New York, USA: Pillow Theory
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 63: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 13, October, 2007 It’s nice to hear a group with such a great balance between music that takes an alternative route while still maintaining ...
Article: The Woodshed: Chromatic Coloring #1
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 62: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue #12, September, 2007 One sure way to improve your improvisation is by adding chromatic coloring to your lines. And of course chromatics ...
Article: Musically Speaking: Rumors
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 61: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue #12, September, 2007 Rumors are just gossip sent out by the ignorant and only received by their own kind. That’s because it takes ...
Article: The Woodshed: Think before you play
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 60: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 11, August, 2007 This article is dedicated to a simple concept. And that is to simply think before you play any improvisational line. ...
Article: Record company legend : Joe Mansfield
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 59: Record company legend : Joe Mansfield From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 11, August, 2007 This is a picture of Joe busy Marketing Garth brooks! Here below this dotted line is a bio that I downloaded about Joe Mansfield. I’d liked to thank who ...
Article: Musically Speaking: Reading music: Breaking the myth
21-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 58: Reading music: Breaking the myth The greatest myth in music is that there are only two schools of thought when it comes to musicians. One focuses on those who read music and ...
Article: From Maryland, USA: Crack the Sky
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 57: From Maryland, USA: Crack the Sky From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 11, August, 2007 There is one band, and one band only that I know of that really launched the ...
Article: From Canada: Dennis Paul
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 56: From Canada: Dennis Paul From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 11, August, 2007 There’s a cool breeze blowing in from the north that is carrying a hot sound that represents ...
Article: From Italy: Ila
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 55: From Italy: Ila From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 11, August, 2007 There’s a new star on the rise who is taking the image of women in rock to a whole new level. She ...
Article: The Woodshed: Transitional Lines
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 54: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 10, July, 2007 This is a continuation of a subject that I mentioned in last months article “Escaping from the pentatonic prison”. Several ...
Article: Where have all the fish gone?
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 53: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 10, July, 2007 Where have all the fish gone? This is a question that I try to avoid because it contaminates my memories of the closest thing ...
Article: Musically Speaking: Will al the real musicians please stand up!
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article: Will all the real musicians please stand up! When I got up today I extended an outside water line so it could reach around the other side of our house making it easier to wash ...
Article: From St. Croix, Virgin Islands: Bevan Smith Jr.
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 51: From St. Croix, Virgin Islands: Bevan Smith Jr From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 10, July, 2007 This is one of those success stories that I’m proud to write. It’s about ...
Article: The Woodshed: Escaping from the Pentatonic Prison
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 50: From St. Croix Music Magazine, Issue # 9, June, 2007 This month I would like to focus on phrasing. Too many players that I’ve seen lately don’t seem to understand this easy but ...
Article: JJ Rocks first experience with the Rolling Stones
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 49: I remember back in high school that there were two trains of musical thought that my schoolmates believed in. One was The Beatles and the other was the Rolling Stones. Now it seemed like most of the kids that were doing well in school and were members of ...
Article: Musically Speaking: Over the hill?
20-07-2011
JJ Rocks Article # 48: There comes a time in your life where you have to start laying out the plans. It’s a scary time but you don’t want to make that obvious when your friends are around. And of course, ...