Asheville Music Lessons

Just a quick note that I’ve updated the Asheville area Music Stores page (and Music education/lessons page) with the new arrival of Dixieland Music Co., in Woodfin. They opened the 17th of October at the Town and Country Shopping Center on Weaverville Highway (Merrimon). They will be open 10-6 M-F and 10-3 Saturdays. [...]

I’m sorry I didn’t get this posted earlier, but Wayne Erbsen at Native Ground Music wanted me to let people know about a class they have starting January 13th on beginning Bluegrass and Clawhammer Banjo.
More detail is available at the link above to Native Ground Music. If you’re not already familiar with them you [...]

You may see some fluctuations in the posting schedule for this site. One of the things I’m considering is moving to every other week posts to allow more time for work on the pages for this site. So, if you see an “empty” week here, it’s not necessarily the start of a long [...]

Just had to put this up for any guitar player that’s struggled to get “just” the right sound out of the first chord of the Beatles Hard Day’s Night… A Math professor has cracked the puzzle and found out that it wasn’t JUST the 12 string guitar from George Harrison… Read a bit [...]

The recent lull in posts has been primarily because there have been a number of other issues I’ve had to attend to.
I hope to be back to a regular schedule posting, but as usual other events could prevent me from keeping such a regular schedule at times. Sorry for the lack of posts, but [...]

Audio gear time…. I’ve run across this condenser microphone at Musician’s Friend. AKG Perception 200 (~$160) very highly recommended. Judging by the reviews it’s a very good buy. (Microphones only go UP from the $160 price level. I remember getting some Shure beta green series which was a lower quality [...]

Over the last little while and over the coming weeks, I expect we’ll have several changes going on the site. For starters, the webhosting account upgrade should be done well before you read this post, as should a basic upgrade of our backend software. I expect to be rolling out a few new [...]

It’s been quoted many times that a journey of a thousand miles begins with just one step. When you think of many of the things we do in life it can be overwhelming to consider the enormity of what is needed to be done. To shrink the quote above a bit, let’s say [...]

I wanted to let you know that I’m in process of lining up a regular posting schedule here. I know the last several months have been quite sporadic, but I’m going to try and hold to a routine of a post a week on Fridays starting this week. Also, due to hosting upgrades [...]

I’ve found several sites have stayed open in tabs for their usefulness… The cyberhymnal is one (lyrics and information – sometimes midi and score for songs.) Also, there’s The music library at timelesstruths.org they give copyright status, lyrics/midi and score as well as lyrics. Some books and lyrics are available online [...]