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Chris Smith Music

Web Publications

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1. Guitar stylists

2. Playing history

3. Thoughts on "historical performance"

4. Supporting public radio diversity

5. Kim Pineda's Joe Bob speech to the BOMB troops

6. Reflections on Turlough O'Carolan

7. Who we are on the Internet

8. Thoughts on improvisation

9. "Commercialism" and the Internet

10. "Da Beat" and how to find it

11. "Political correctness" and semantic legerdemain

12. Monk

13. Missing FZ in Election Year '96

14. At the Grammies, Richard Dreyfuss nails the Disloyal Opposition.
Please read, download, and forward!

15. HST on the fallacy of "objective journalism"

16. Karl Lorenz's transcription of Dogen on sitting

17. Approaches to sight-reading

18. More on sight-reading

19. Martial Arts fallacies

20. On Pat Metheny

21. Modal music

22. Information on amadinda xylophone

23. Modal improvisation

24. A few words on Hindusthani music

25. Frank Zappa on the PMRC

26. Night Music

27. Some South African music favorites

28. Stuff about the Arabic 'ud and medieval lute

29. James Blood Ulmer

30. Jim Hall

31. Lead Belly and Blind Willie McTell

32. Microsoft Follies

33. On Jump Blues

34. Robertson Davies and"The Lyre of Orpheus"

35. Picking technique

36. Gary Snyder's poem "For All"

37. Gary Snyder's poem "Magpie Song"

38. Dilbert

39. Meditations on "Guy Movies"

40. Jack Grassel: Eric Dolphy on Guitar

41. The Who on the Rock 'n' Roll Circus

42. More on South African Jazz and Dollar Brand/ Abdullah Ibrahim

43. Bill Sacks' Blues Guitar Greats

44. Amplifying Ouds

45. CJS vs. IDS

46. Doumbecs and Baladi Dance

47. Clave and related issues

48. Richard Thompson and Highland Piping

49. Using Usenet

50. On the Bodhran (Irish Drum)

51. Afro-pop Worldwide's African Classics List

52. Excellent online African music discography

53. Pat Metheny's Toothbrush

54. Blind Arvella Gray, 1978

55. Rebuttal to the CDA

56. Spike fiddles

57. Lawson Stone's Jazz Guitar Trios

58. Steve's Accordian Joke

59. Jazz Mind

60. Alap

61. World-music terminology

62. Getting started with jazz guitar

63. Chord soloing and related stuff

64. Jazz links

65. Bouzouki

66. Getting signed in 1997

67. Stravinsky and HIP

68. Marc Loopuyt

69. Learning tunes by ear

70. On the EMI

71. Accompanying Irtrad music on guitar

72. Two disciplines in the form of a pair:
Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology

73. More on the Bloomington music scene

74. The Bloomington Early Music Festival

75. Solas in Concert (report)

76. Tenor Banjo & Bouzouki

77. Playing Oud

78. Metheny as Sideman

79. Gigs

80. More on the Bloomington Celtic Scene

81. John Peekstock's summary of cittern tunings

82. From r.m.m.g, good stuff on cutting the changes

83. From r.m.m.g, good stuff on jazz method books

84. Great stuff from Warren Senders on cross-cultural improvisation

85. Music, opinion, and the Web

86. Great exercises for making chord changes

87. More stuff on tenor banjo

88. More on accompanying Irish traditional music

89. Bouzouki in Celtic music

90. Getting from there to here in Celtic music, 1978-1997

91. Robin Williamson

92. Sessions as "ideal society" (NB: don't read this if you don't like ethnomusicology!!!

93. Marc Loopuyt on the "heart" of traditional music

94. Great insightful commentary on ANY music scene

95. Hindusthani musical cosmology: OM

96. Analyzing standards: Jobim's "How Insensitive

97. Jim Hall and "Thumb Lines"

98. Dealing with goatskin dumbek heads

99. Learning to hear harmony in Irish music

100. Suggested listening stuff

101. Bits on the Lotus Festival '97

102. Tons of Celtic sites from Craig Cockburn

103. Ben Bagby's Beowulf

104. What kind of "authenticity" are we looking for?

105. From Ciaran Carson's great book "Last Night's Fun"

106. Rick Hewitt's great description of "buying before you try"

107. Comments on CJS "Slow Session" at Waldron Arts Center, Bloomington

108. Technology stuff for Celtic acoustic guitar

109. Draft notes for Altramar's "Crossroads of the Celts"

110. Stuff about Renaissance cittern

111. Duane Allman

112. "Corner-loading" and Irish sessions

113. The roots of flamenco

114. Steve Cooney and trusting accompanists

115. S.F.'s Blarney Star

116. How Record Clubs hurt Independent Labels

117. Andy Irvine, Ken Burns, and the Culture of Cynicism

118. My oud, and acquiring your own

119. "Corner Loading" and Irish sessions

120. Purser and "wishful Celticisms"

121. Thinking about medieval percussion

122. Getting signed in '97

123. Humility and historical perspective

124. How to learn improvisation

125. Marc Loopuyt and learning by ear

126. Mandolin history

127. Some recordings by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

128. Sean O'Riada

129. More about acquiring an oud

130. Modal theory and Irish accompaniment

131. Right hand technique

132. A Roma

133. Cello in Scots music

134. Dealing with session Dopes

135. Planxty and "Smeceno Horo"

136. Rick Stone's great "essential jazz" discography

137. Pedagogy and the oral tradition

138. Frank Zappa and Stanley Crouch

139. Zouk and other Antillean music

140. Lawrence Washington's note re/ sponsoring sessions

141. Transcribing and analyzing soloes by Charlie Parker and Eric Dolphy

142. More on Jack Grassel

143. Frank Zappa meets Stanley Crouch

144. Clay Moore's great stuff on "angular" soloing

145. Fantastic stuff from Michael Frisch on old-timey music, Afro-Cuban music, and "The Zone"

146. Linda Thompson, guitar picks, and me

147. MacGregor, underground sept Orr

148. Jon Kabat-Zinn

149. More on great Irish fiddlers

150. Learning the fingerboard

151. More on learning the fingerboard

152. Left-hand technique and the "Spider Syndrome"

153. Creating tune sets

154. Practicing from "full-dark" to "full-light"

155. Eliza Carthy

156. Using harmonic substitutions in modal music

157. Using ASCII to send monophonic melodies

158. History of tenor banjo in Irish music

159. CJB

160. Derek Bailey's great text Improvisation

161. Tenor Banjo tunings

162. Coping with ADD in music

163. Frank Zappa, Scott Thunes, and Dainin Katagiri Roshi

164. Tony Levin's Cosmology of the Bass

165. Bubba's Apologia

166. Fantastic beginning improvisation stuff from Clay Moore

167. Conceptualizing 'Comping in Irish music

168. Description of my May Bell tenor banjo from Mandolin Brothers catalog

169. Understanding Columbine in the classroom

170. Lots of detail on fingering bouzouki/banjo

171. Learning dumbek

172. Stuff on Arty McGlynn

173. Conceiving rhythms in Irish music

174. Bits on Robin Williamson

175. Okay, a token bit on the Seinfeld phenomenon

176. Religious fanatics around and about

177. Course Descriptions, ZoukFest 99

Last updated May 29, 2002

coyotebanjo

Chris Smith Music

Web Publications

[NB: Please feel free to read, download and share. However, please retain copyright notices and attributions. Download constitutes agreement to these conditions. Thanks.]

1. Guitar stylists

2. Playing history

3. Thoughts on "historical performance"

4. Supporting public radio diversity

5. Kim Pineda's Joe Bob speech to the BOMB troops

6. Reflections on Turlough O'Carolan

7. Who we are on the Internet

8. Thoughts on improvisation

9. "Commercialism" and the Internet

10. "Da Beat" and how to find it

11. "Political correctness" and semantic legerdemain

12. Monk

13. Missing FZ in Election Year '96

14. At the Grammies, Richard Dreyfuss nails the Disloyal Opposition. Please read, download, and forward!

15. HST on the fallacy of "objective journalism"

16. Karl Lorenz's transcription of Dogen on sitting

17. Approaches to sight-reading

18. More on sight-reading

19. Martial Arts fallacies

20. On Pat Metheny

21. Modal music

22. Information on amadinda xylophone

23. Modal improvisation

24. A few words on Hindusthani music

25. Frank Zappa on the PMRC

26. Night Music

27. Some South African music favorites

28. Stuff about the Arabic 'ud and medieval lute

29. James Blood Ulmer

30. Jim Hall

31. Lead Belly and Blind Willie McTell

32. Microsoft Follies

33. On Jump Blues

34. Robertson Davies and"The Lyre of Orpheus"

35. Picking technique

36. Gary Snyder's poem "For All"

37. Gary Snyder's poem "Magpie Song"

38. Dilbert

39. Meditations on "Guy Movies"

40. Jack Grassel: Eric Dolphy on Guitar

41. The Who on the Rock 'n' Roll Circus

42. More on South African Jazz and Dollar Brand/ Abdullah Ibrahim

43. Bill Sacks' Blues Guitar Greats

44. Amplifying Ouds

45. CJS vs. IDS

46. Doumbecs and Baladi Dance

47. Clave and related issues

48. Richard Thompson and Highland Piping

49. Using Usenet

50. On the Bodhran (Irish Drum)

51. Afro-pop Worldwide's African Classics List

52. Excellent online African music discography

53. Pat Metheny's Toothbrush

54. Blind Arvella Gray, 1978

55. Rebuttal to the CDA

56. Spike fiddles

57. Lawson Stone's Jazz Guitar Trios

58. Steve's Accordian Joke

59. Jazz Mind

60. Alap

61. World-music terminology

62. Getting started with jazz guitar

63. Chord soloing and related stuff

64. Jazz links

65. Bouzouki

66. Getting signed in 1997

67. Stravinsky and HIP

68. Marc Loopuyt

69. Learning tunes by ear

70. On the EMI

71. Accompanying Irtrad music on guitar

72. Two disciplines in the form of a pair: Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology

73. More on the Bloomington music scene

74. The Bloomington Early Music Festival

75. Solas in Concert (report)

76. Tenor Banjo & Bouzouki

14. At the Grammies, Richard Dreyfuss nails the Disloyal Opposition.
Please read, download, and forward!

72. Two disciplines in the form of a pair:
Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology