I’ve finally sorted out a new blog on my website.
The link is: www.dylankay.co.uk/blog
Lots of new guitar/music/life-related stuff there… plus more info about my Skype guitar lessons.
Come and visit!
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I’ve finally got a teaching website off the ground for Skype guitar lessons and other stuff at www.dylankay.co.uk. Come and visit me there!
This blog will revert to the old address: http://www.dylankay.wordpress.com.
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We’re very happy that the launch party for the new 1224 Project CD “What Happened to The Foot” will be at the Spice of Life in Soho on Friday, 1st April.
It’s a great venue, centrally located, and we’re looking forward to celebrating all the hard work that went into producing the album.
If you’d like an invite to the party, send us an email: info@1224project.co.uk.
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Very nice review by Emrys Baird in Blues and Soul Magazine today.
Love his view that trying to pigeonhole 1224 Project is a bit similar to understanding dwarf-tossing!
The review’s below, and it’s on the Blues and Soul site here.
Thanks Emrys!
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Peter Bacon kindly posted a review of “What Happened to The Foot” on his The Jazz Breakfast blog. You can find it here.
And Phil Levene just let me know that he’d played “FT” on his 23rd Dec show, which you can find here. Thanks Phil!
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Many people know of Ted Greene through his book “Chord Chemistry”, or through his private students. His one album “Solo Guitar” is an intense and extraordinary insight into the depth of music this man could create. Yet this was someone who shunned publicity, and preferred to perform background music in restaurants and at weddings rather than stepping into the spotlight on the concert stage.
One of the great guitar teachers, thinkers and players, and by all accounts a thoroughly decent human being, Ted Greene sadly passed away in 2005. If you don’t know about it already, check out www.tedgreene.com. Past students and friends have compiled (and continue to compile) an absolutely wonderful resource of solo guitar arrangements, lessons (PDFs, audio and video). It is incredible…
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Some of the best guitar lessons I’ve had went like this:
No written music allowed.
A tape recorder.
A guitar. An amp.
That’s it.
Richie Hart would play the song or solo, you’d try and copy it as best you could. You’d go home and listen to the tape, practise it.
It works!
So, why not leave it at that? No, instead we have to suffer more and more lunatic attempts to destroy music education by “improving” it (meaning of course that it gets worse), and dumbing it down so that anyone can “pass” a meaningless exam.
And for what it’s worth, if you mentioned the word “mode” in Richie’s lesson, God help you!
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