Quiet Time

I’ve been a little quiet on the blog recently. It’s been a mix of being busy as well as messing with things a little out of my reach musically. On the first point, life is back in a fairly normal swing here, and I’m not so exhausted coming home as I was for a few

Experiments

This past weekend was my first chance to get out to my brother in law’s workshop. I was really looking forward because it was a chance to play around with some ideas. My main issue is while I can visit a nice workshop (hopefully on a regular basis), it is a cabinetry workshop. That means

Riverside Sketches no.1

I wrote my first piece exploring pentatonic based melodies as well as my first real piece for Russian guitar. First things first, I’m quite happy with the piece and how it turned out. I’m not as happy with my playing of it, but I think I did well enough all things considered. I still need

Adjustments

I’ve been practicing on my classical guitar in an open G tuning for a while, and while it works to get acquainted with Russian guitar, I have of course, wanted a seven string. This weekend I finally had the time to sit down and do something about that.  I’m not really in a position where