The beauty of bad ballads

It's been a weird few years for me in music. I've posted before about failures, struggles, and non-starters with performing and composing alike. Sometimes I find myself asking why I'm even trying to pursue music anymore, and I have morose, depressing blog posts about my disillusionment with music.

Sorry for that.

The truth about metronomes

Metronomes aren't lying, but you might be.

The real reason I can't quit Twitter

A few weeks ago, Lindy West abandoned Twitter, saying that it was a platform that was unusable except for "trolls, robots, and dictators." She's not wrong. But still, I stay.

A broken instrument, or an OMEN FROM THE GODS?

I've posted a lot on this blog about my (seemingly never ending) struggle to get back into music after many diversions, distractions, and dead ends. This past summer, I asked my wife to get me something musical for my birthday.

She got me a beginner's level flute and violin, but she didn't realize the situation would totally spiral out of control.

Why Musically Notable is now The Music Shark

"Wait, wasn't her blog called Musically Notable? What the hell is The Music Shark?"

Me. I am the music shark.

Another gay post: coming out as a gay composer

I already wrote about my experience as a craft blogger/content creator on my GamerCrafting blog. This is a little bit different, but the message is the same.

Last weekend, a homicidal homophobe gunned down 50 people at a gay club in Orlando. 50 more were injured. The entire LGBT community has been shaken to its very core. We're all thinking: what if it had been us?

A musician's summer reading list

It's summer. Let's read. And maybe learn some stuff in the process.

No, I'm not a teacher, so I don't get time off in the summer. But a lot of you are, and by my count it's halfway through 2016 so I'd better get started on those New Year's resolutions.