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)
Continue reading Twelve-bar Jazz Practice...
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)
Continue reading The Black Page (in Perl)...
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:
Continue reading Using WWW::Spotify...
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...
Continue reading Guitar Resurrection...
Long ago I wrote a really clunky analog clock app. Yesterday I finally fixed it up...
Continue reading Simple Analog Clock in Perl...