06/20/06: Seek
to Understand the Kalimba's Logic
06/27/06:
Doubles, Anyone?
07/04/06: Exploring
Two Note Harmonies
07/11/06: Shifting
Up and Down the Kalimba
07/18/06: Thumb Nails
07/25/06: Using KtabS
08/01/06: Making
a Wah-Wah Sound
08/08/06: Thumb
Picking: a G Riff
08/15/06: Thumb
Picking: a D Riff
08/22/06: Swing
08/29/06: More About Swing
09/05/06: Walking While Swinging
09/12/06: Let One Thumb Slack Off While the Other One Works
09/19/06: Now Let One Thumb Work While the OTHER Slacks Off
09/26/06: Walking on the Offbeats
10/03/06: Shape
Your Nails For Your Kalimba
10/10/06: My Kalimba Kept Going Out of Tune
10/17/06: El Manisero: The Peanut Vendor on the 8-Note Kalimba
10/24/06: Don't Leave Your Kalimba On the Bus!
10/31/06: A Soulful Discovery in Chile
11/07/06: The 1-4-5 Progression on the Kalimba
11/14/06: Mark's Rule of Thumb
11/21/06: Intervals Explained
11/28/06: Take Care of Your Nails Before They Break
12/05/06: Getting KTabS
12/1205: Up on the Housetop
12/19/06: The
Best Kalimba for Beginning Players
12/26/06: Being
In Tune is an Easy First Step to Sounding Good
01/02/07: Be Inventive--There's More Than One Way to Plink a Kalimba!
01/09/07: You May Write the Names (or Numbers)
of the Notes on your Kalimba Tines
01/16/07: When you play with another musician, LISTEN to them
01/23/07: On Wrong Notes - or Not!
01/30/07: More on Labeling Kalimba Tines
02/06/07: Relating Kalimba Notes to Piano Notes
02/13/07: Watch the Angle of Your Thumbnail on the Tine
02/19/07: Another Handy Kalimba Case!
02/27/07: How Low Can the Notes on the Kalimba Go?
03/20/07: Simple Arpeggios
03/27/07: Simple Riff With the Colin Walcott Tuning
04/03/07: Simplicity in Number of Notes
04/10/07: The
Karimba-tuned 8-Note Kalimba: Another "2 vs. 3"
04/17/07: The Hitzazkiar Persian Tuning on the 8-Note Kalimba
04/24/07: Alternative Tuning for the
Hugh Tracey Celeste Diatonic Junior:
a perfect starting point
for Celtic music
05/01/07: How the Hugh Tracey Got Its Stripes
05/08/07: Kalimba Etching
05/15/07:
Weave Paper Through Your Tines For a Different Sound
05/22/07: Paper Weave Weaves Too Much?
05/29/07: Super Glue With a Little Brush
06/05/07: A Passing Rain
06/12/07: More on Intentionality
06/19/07: Imagine Playing the Kalimba
06/26/07: Charming Grasshoppers with the Kalimba
07/03/07: Hugh Tracey Kalimbas Mellow with Age
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LEARNING HOW TO PLAY TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR
07/10/07: Twinkle, Twinkle, Lower Octave
07/17/07: Twinkle,
Twinkle, Upper Octave
07/24/07: Twinkle, Twinkle, Lower and Upper Octaves Together
07/31/07: Twinkle, Twinkle, Upper Octave and 6th in the Bass
08/07/07: Chords to Twinkle, Twinkle
08/14/07: Chords and Melody to Twinkle, Twinkle
08/21/07: Alternating Bass for Twinkle, Twinkle
08/27/07: Alternating Bass Plus Melody for Twinkle, Twinkle
09/04/07: Just Go Wild Mixing Together Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
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09/18/07: More Solutions for Stressed Thumbnails
09/25/07: Painted Tines and Buzzes
10/02/07: Paint the Tines on Your Non-Hugh Tracey Kalimba
10/09/07: Be Inventive When You Paint the Tines of Your Kalimba
10/16/07: Remarkable, Older Kalimbas
10/23/07: An Engraved Kalimba
10/30/07: Upcoming PASIC Conference
11/06/07: Alto, Celeste Alto, TM Alto?
11/13/07: How Old is My Hugh Tracey Kalimba?
11/20/07: Make Yourself a Gourd to Play Kalimba In
11/27/07: A Message About Thumbnails From a Player
12/04/07: Oliver Mtukudzi's Ndakuvara
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SETTING UP YOUR KALIMBA
12/11/07: Setting Up Your Kalimba
12/18/07: Being In Tune
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12/25/07: Merry Christmas— St. Basil's Hymn
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SETTING UP YOUR KALIMBA (cont'd)
01/01/01: Uniformly Spaced Tines
01/08/08: Do Some Tines Stick Up or Lag Down?
01/15/08: Fixing the Buzz - Intro
01/22/08: Fixing the Buzz - Method 1
01/29/08: Fixing the Buzz - Method 2
02/05/08: Fixing the Buzz - Method 3
02/12/08: Painted Tines and Buzzes
02/19/08: Retuning Can Produce a New Buzz
02/26/08: Playing with a Buzz
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REHEARSING
03/04/08: Getting Beyond the Boredom of Rehearsing
03/11/08: Be Open to Self Evaluation
03/18/08: Can You Make Rehearsal a Daily Spiritual Practice?
03/25/08: Listen to Yourself
04/01/08: Record Yourself
04/08/08: The Zoom H4 Handy Recorder
04/15/08: Reaper - Free Software for Recording
04/22/08: Strategies for Recording in Rehearsal
04/29/08: Learn How to be Hard on Yourself
05/06/08: Learn to be Honest with Yourself
05/13/08: When You Are Centered, Distractions Don't Distract
05/20/08: Seek a Spiritual Practice
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THUMBNAIL CARE
05/27/08: What If You Can't Grow Thumb Nails?
06/03/08: My Playing Technique
06/10/08: How Long Should Your Thumb Nails Be?
06/17/08: What If You Break a Nail - Part I
06/24/08: What If You Break a Nail - Part II
07/01/08: How to Apply the Super Glue - Part I
07/08/08: How to Apply the Super Glue - Part II
07/15/08: How to Apply the Super Glue - Part III
07/22/08: How to Apply the Super Glue - Part IV
07/29/08: How to Apply the Super Glue - Part V
08/05/08: To Clip or to File - Part I
08/12/08: To Clip or to File - Part II
08/19/08: To Clip or to File - Part III
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READING RHYTHMIC NOTATION
08/26/08: Whole Notes
09/02/08: Half Notes
09/09/08: Quarter Notes
09/16/08: Mixing Half and Quarter Notes
09/23/08: Mixing Half and Quarer Notes—in Reverse!
09/30/08: First Syncopation
10/07/08: Ties and Dots
10/14/08: The Eighth Note
10/21/08: More Eighth Notes
10/28/08: Some Real Syncopation
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11/04/08: SPECIAL ELECTION DAY TIP
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11/11/08: Using Both Sides
11/18/08: A Simple Pattern to Practice Using Both Sides
11/25/08: A Simple Syncopation on Both Sides
12/02/08: Another Simple Pattern to Practice Both Sides
12/09/08: Syncopating on Alternating Sides
12/16/08: More Syncopation
12/23/08: Two Against Three
12/30/08: Another Syncopated Rhythm
01/06/09: Making a More Complex Pattern
01/13/09: Two Against Three—More Practice
01/20/09: Two Against Three—Reversed
01/27/09: Shifting the Perceived "1 Beat"
02/03/09: My Favorite Way of Playing Two Against Three
02/10/09: Two Against Three—Two Different Interpretations
02/17/09: Two Against Three—Symmetrizing Your Brain
02/24/09: Two Against Three—Remove Some Notes
03/03/09: Syncopation Studies Continued
03/10/09: Mirror Image of Last Week's Syncopation
03/17/09: Combine the Last Two Syncopation Lessons
03/24/09: Shifting the "One"
03/31/09: Shifting the "One" Another Way
04/07/09: A Different Syncopated Rhythm
04/14/09: Tracing the Moving Melody
04/21/09: Looking for the Non-melody Notes
04/28/09: Putting It All Back Together Again
05/05/09: Looking Back at What We've Done
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MELODY & HARMONY
05/12/09: Introduction
05/19/09: The Octave
05/26/09: More on the Octave
06/02/09: Dividing the Octave: the 5th
06/09/09: Dividing the Octave: the 3rd
08/11/09: The Major Arpeggio
08/18/09: Other Arpeggios
08/25/09: Why Arpeggios?
09/01/09: The Major Pentatonic Scale
09/08/09: The Minor Pentatonic Scale
09/15/09: Why Pentatonic Scales?
10/06/09: 12 Notes on the Piano
10/13/09: The Entire Piano is Built from Those 12 Notes
10/27/09: Whole Steps and Half Steps
11/03/09: Whole Steps and Half Steps Building the Scale
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HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
12/08/09: First Line - Basic
12/15/09: Second Line - Basic
12/22/09: Third and Fourth Lines - Basic
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MELODY & CHORDS
01/05/10: Introduction
01/12/10: What's a Chord Progression?
01/26/10: A Listening Exercise
02/02/10: The Ambiguity of Chord Changes
02/16/10: Two Note Chords: Ambiguous But Suggestive
02/23/10: An Easy Way to Combine Chords & Melody, Part I
03/02/10: An Easy Way to Combine Chords & Melody, Part II
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