How to play ska rhythm guitar:

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Gallop.

Don’t blink. Don’t even blink.

I wrote a few words on why the “Best of…” lists of colleges for music may not be the best way to pick where you study music.

All this talk of - hot planet on planet action - made me do this. First, after two years of waiting, Mars finally achieved opposition. Then, Venus and Jupiter teamed up last week for a great night-time show. Such a confluence of events had me listening to Holst’s “The Planets” suite on repeat. This is the result of that time well spent, enjoy!

Count the Ways - Here is another take on yesterday’s Odd Quartet comic. I had a lot of fun making that comic and hearing about all the different counting systems that other musicians use (including ones not listed in the picture above)! 

A video in which I explain how I ink the panels in Odd Quartet using photoshop. Also, there is a bunch of giggling in the background (my wife and sister-in-law were watching a movie in the next room and I didn’t realize that the audio picked up on them laughing). Enjoy!

Which counting system do you use?

• Gordon “Du-ta-de-ta” “Du-da-di”
• Kodaly “Ti-ri-ti-ri” “Tri-o-la”
• McHose/Tibbs “1-ta-te-ta” “1-la-li”
• Takadimi “Ta-ka-di-mi” Ta-ki-da”
• “1-e-&-a” “1-trip-let”
• Other?