I stumbled upon this chart of 17 blues-jazz (jazz-blues?) chord progressions by Dan Haerle. Naturally, being a programmer-musician, I made a program with which to practice improv skills. (tl;dr: blues-progressions & audio below)
I have a library of drummer tools, and Frank Zappa wrote The Black Page drum solo. So... (tl;dr: black-page & mp3 at the bottom)
Last year, I wrote a music player for myself that fetches and displays cover art. This weekend I added artist image and genres via the excellent WWW::Spotify module. Here's how:
Does Sun Tzu's venerable classic "The Art of War" apply to the discipline of engineering? Who (or what) is "the enemy"? And "spies"? Huh? But there is wisdom to be had.
My friend Mike gave me this guitar he built (from new parts, not used scrap!). So I decided it was time to re-learn the basics of playing the instrument...
