Patreon month in review: https://t.co/4el2URT7oH

Damn, @nytimes, let me translate this for you: “the Department of Justice is supposed to be independent, but now Trump has managed to turn it into a weapon for settling his personal scores.” Language is important - abandoning plain English helps Trump win.

Patreon Season in review: https://t.co/gkUXKWM9fh

Lift the Bandstand Happy birthday to Steve Lacy, born on this day in 1934 and gone way to early in 2004 at the age of 69. Here's a tremendous track from 1958, with Mal Waldron, Buell Neidlinger, and Elvin Jones. Monk's "Four in One."

Bach on Sunday: a long one (75 min) - listening, recording, analysis, and improvisation on "Es ist genug," a Chorale famous for it's complexity and unusual harmonic movements.

Bach on Sunday- free video - listening, recording, analysis, improv on a Chorale from the St. Matthew Passion:

Bach on Sunday: performances, analysis, improvisation, Chorale 206 (free video):

Giant Steps episode 10 closes out this series today. Get in while it’s still $5/month - price is going up soon:

The second week of studying “Giant Steps” begins today, using only pentatonic scales to make it through the changes. Check it out with a free trial or a $5 membership: https://t.co/Lxvy00l2ky

Bach on Sundays: Chorale 110 recording, analysis, improvisation (free video): https://t.co/Xd9dwMoE6f

Season 2 now online! Chromatic scale (3 episodes) Symmetry (12 ep.) Donna Lee PIck Control (Drum rudiments for guitar, 8 ep.) Wail The Scrambler (ear training, 3 ep.) Bach: Allegro Assai (5 ep.) Confirmation (6 ep.) Guided Practice (5 ep) https://t.co/Es81ZfwDYE

Mixing is done for my tentet record Of The Near And Far! Recorded by Chris Allen @SearSound and mixed by Owen Mulholland. They both did an incredible job! Thank you both for the fantastic work! I can’t wait to share this record with you all! OCTOBER 24 on @PyroclasticRec✨#vibes

Nine part deep dive on “All The Things You are,” up today. See it for free with 7-day trial. After that, just $5/month. Way cheaper than music school. https://t.co/lnX4qPasQc

Bach on Sunday: free 1/2 hour video on Chorale 83, reading, harmonic analysis, improvisation:

Just say “Antonyms,” since an antonym is already a word by definition.

Start with a lesson on apostrophes

Unpopular opinion - Just like training wheels don’t help you learn how to ride a bike, tablature doesn’t help you learn how to sight read on the guitar.

The “Work” podcast season 1 is now online, 65 episodes. A look at every Monk tune on guitar:

Bach on Good Friday https://t.co/6tmYge9P3A Which one do you take to the desert island?

Free, informal early evening guitar duo @MillerTheatre. @milesokazaki with Bill Frisell play standards set that includes Jobim, Tadd Dameron (“Hot House”), Strayhorn (“Lotus Blossom”), etc. Packed house spills over to onstage semi-circle of especially lucky listeners who get