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    Midnight Arpeggios: The Zen of Practicing Music

    By M.J. Murphy

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    About this ebook

    Midnight Arpeggios is about how to  practice music, but it doesn't contain a single note, chord, scale, arpeggio or warmup exercise.

    Instead, it is concerned with the quality and maintenance of our relationship to music, it is about the power of attention, simplicity, overcoming fear, resisting blind convention while embracing the classics, timelessness, strengths and limitations, assessing influences, leadership, concentration, deliberation, patience, art, mind, body, soul, money, the differing nature of instrumental and lyrical music, creativity and the muse, listening, confronting the uniquely modern  problem of music overload, getting lost, mindset, accepting challenges, character, the art of the list, and the many ways music has woven itself into our experience of the world.

    Each chapter begins with a brief quote and an original photograph, and is followed by stories that weave the personal experience and ideas of the author with that of great musicians, artists, philosophers, and scientists.

    Midnight Arpeggios makes a great addition to any musician's library. You may find yourself turning to it again and again whenever you need a shot of inspiration or encouragement to get that instrument out, and play.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTwilight Storm Media
    Release dateNov 20, 2013
    ISBN9781497767959
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    Midnight Arpeggios: The Zen of Practicing Music
    Author

    M.J. Murphy

    M.J Murphy is a writer, guitarist, bassist, and guitar instructor now living in Saint Louis Missouri. He has a Master's degree in Communications from the University of Illinois, and a Bachelor's degree in English/Communications from St Mary's University in Winona Minnesota, where he also studied Creative Writing, Classical Guitar and Jazz Improvisation. He has published four books to date which are comprised of three music related books: "Choosing Notes", "Grow, Teach, Repeat", and "Midnight Arpeggios" and a recently published science fiction/fantasy novella called "Dream Tangle". A second novel in the "Dream Tangle" series is currently the works. His life experience over the years have included: grocery store clerk, record store clerk, electronics store clerk, hockey player, hockey coach, ice rink guard, locksmith, radio DJ, video editor, publishing project manager, executive producer, interactive software developer, rock band guitarist, rock band bassist, solo classical guitarist, recording artist, audio engineer, podcaster, blogger and currently, writer, guitar instructor and, of course, eternal dog walker.

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