Thirteen rehearsal spaces

All music-makers have at least one problem in common: finding places to practice together.

Year One at Orbital Music Park

Orbital Music Park had an absolutely amazing first year!

The legend of the funky drummer

November 20, 1969. Clyde Stubblefield is the drummer in James Brown’s…

Are You Trying Too Hard?

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. — Heraclitus

Get Small, Get Better

Often the big improvement we seek is accomplished through a series of very small…

To play or not to play?

“Music is the silence between the notes.” — Claude Debussy

“It’s not the notes you play…

Musical People and Musicians

musician / noun. musical / adjective.

A duck hears also.

Consider the timeless tension between the inner critic and inner critique.

Space Is the Place

Musical people like us are on weird, twisting journeys in music — carving paths through a vast wilderness of sound. Climbing…

Stepping Stones

My first guitar was an acoustic I bought for $50 in Tijuana, Mexico in 1984. It was maybe a notch above a tourist souvenir. No…