Category: Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music

  • A scientist’s dream

    A scientist’s dream

    Since “Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music” is something of a jam-oriented song, I thought it would be fun to work up a loop (with a bass ukulele, then a baritone ukulele, then an amplified acoustic concert ukulele) before singing and playing the song and taking some solos on an electric ukulele. It’s long enough…

  • Twice in an orange moon

    Twice in an orange moon

    We got back into Goody Sound studio a second time this month and got a lot work done on six of the twelve songs for my album. For one (“Saint Lucifer”) we just tweaked a bass note or something so no real update to share there. As always these “Pleasant Valley Sessions” are produced by…

  • Embiggening the fun

    Embiggening the fun

    Recording in the studio has been just an amazing experience so far, but this most recent session took it all up to the next level for me, personally! This time, we recorded live in the studio, as a quartet: Javier Navarette on percussion, Robert Wade on bass, David Gans on guitar, and myself on uke…

  • Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (again)

    “Three notes in a scale…”

  • Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music (dance mix demo)

    For odd reasons. was tuned to about A 415 when I recorded this. This tune was inspired by a New York Times article from the 1910s:

  • Giving Zoo Wolves Lessons in Music

    A scientist’s dream… Three notes in a scale