| June 22, 2008 |
| Today is my birthday and it's a wonderful day. I walked into town this morning with Erin and we had coffee and talked while watching the boats come and go on the water. I enjoy the morning when the city is still waking up. Few people are out and about and traffic is nowhere near what it will be once the first ferry arrives bringing the tourists and the workers who live on the mainland. I had a great breakfast after we walked back to Bernard then I grabbed my guitar and started writing a new tune. After a couple of hours of playing and writing we went to the water. It's COLD! But luckily not as cold as last year. So I swam for a while then threw rocks with James. Swam some more and then it was time to head into town for a quick shower and some lunch. Last night we saw GET SMART. That's all I wanted for my birthday. A good laugh goes a long way with me. I think I'll need to get the old TV series on DVD soon. I've got my "Life Is Good" shirt on. My brothers have called, my sister called, other family members and friends have left phone messages and/or text messages. Good friends and family - I couldn't ask for more. It's true, life really is good. |
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| April 13, 2008 |
| I went to Boston this past week. I did a clinic at Berklee College Of Music, visited classes and then performed a concert. It was really wonderful being back in Boston and at Berklee in particular. I had not spent this much time there since I graduated in 1984. I was able to connect with some of my old instructors and catch up. It was interesting because once again I felt like the student in their presence. I've come a long way as a player over the years but I was reminded how much there is still to learn. I'm up for the challenge and ready to play. Visiting class rooms was great because I got to see what's going on with many individual players. Berklee has expanded it's teaching repetoire and fingerstyle guitar (for which I am most widely known) is very much accepted now. I visited a rock class and brought some music charts from a few recent recording sessions. I just wanted to show what some real life charts look like. I went to an acoustic fingerpicking blues class and we all played several tunes and talked extensively about the acoustic guitar and I related some of my experiences. Then I went to a class for song writers who play guitar but it is not their primary instrument. That's a mouth full! The talent in that class blew me away. They all sang and wrote so well that I left thinking that the future of pop music looks very good. Now if radio consultants could just get their acts together long enough to allow some really good music to be played in between the commercials, then Talk Radio might have some real competition. Cheers! |
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| April 5, 2008 |
| There are people out there who don't want to learn anyone else's songs or study music or even learn to read music. They just want to write and create their own. They don't want other people's music to get in the way of their ability to create their own music. That's a bunch of crap! Why is musical illiteracy considered by some to be a good thing? Imagine a novelist who has never read any books. One who doesn't even know the basic rules of the language or how to properly construct a sentence. Someone who doesn't know a verb from a noun or what a "double negative" is. Do you think he or she would write a book that would be worth reading? Would anyone buy it? Would it get a good review? I think it would not be a very good book. The writing would be juvenile at best, no one would publish it and it would quickly be forgotten. This is what is happening to those same people who think that somehow there is a special magic inside them that is so great that their music is going to be so original it will set the world on fire. HEADLINE: It's not gonna happen! Of the millions of people who think this way, only a few - a very small few - get anywhere with their music. Everything we hear on the radio has already been done long ago. The chords and the melodies are simple and offer no challenge to either the listeners or the players who make the records. A new sound comes along now and then, a new effect for guitar or bass or vocals, and the same simple chords and melodies show up again. Be brave and be bold. Learn something new. Learn something old. Don't be afraid of Bach or Mozart. All the great jazz lines that we love...? Bach wrote them in his music and he died over 250 years ago! Study, learn and write something memorable. ;-P |
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| April 3, 2008 |
| I played tonight for a few students at a Border's Book Store. I had spoken to a songwriting class a few weeks ago and someone mentioned that the class had a showcase at Border's. I offered to play for anyone who would like to have me back them up. A couple of the students took me up on my offer. While students were performing I perused the Music section of Border's. I quickly became disappointed and a bit disenchanted for the students (and every other young person who wants their music to last) because out of TEN shelves of books in the Music section, there was NO MUSIC. There were biographies, Leonard Maltin had a few books about movies, I could read all about Jimi Hendrix for the 10,000th time but there was NO PRINTED MUSIC. No sheet music. How sad it is, I told the students, that the music they will write won't make it to store shelves but info on who they have slept with and what drugs they have or have not done will. Books will be written about your tours, your hair and makeup and clothes. What guitars you play, where you got them and how much they cost. But no one will buy books of the printed music. No one will write the music down on paper and no one is able to read the notes anyway. Pop music is so mindless and simplistic that most players can learn it in one listening session. Where are the challenges? I am thankful that I am driven to learn more. Currently I am learning a piece by Barrios called La Catedral. College level students can't read or write music. These are supposed to be institutions of higher learning. But most aren't. They're places for students to go and hang out. It's easy to get in and easy to get out. Save your money. Start a band instead. If you're good enough you'll find out soon enough.
So, I told the students this evening, lead a good life. It may be the next cover story. In the meantime make the absolute best music you can - if only for the sake of making good music. Study hard. Learn to appreciate something other than what makes quick money on the radio. Most of that will all be forgotten in a matter of months. |
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| March 15, 2008 |
| There are concerns that some countries might possibly boycott the summer Olympics in China because of their treatment of Tibet - among other things. I say let's not wait for countries to boycott, let's just not watch it. Advertising dollars speak louder than almost anything on the planet and If the money is not flowing the consequences will be felt. We have the power in our remote controls to make a difference. I may cook out more, or fish more or work in my yard. But I cannot support China any longer. They have so many of our jobs. They don't care about human rights. They don't care about the environment. I won't be watching the Olympics this summer. I think I'll stain my deck instead. |
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| March 13, 2008 |
| SATIRE ANYONE? Millions and millions of dollars have been spent investigating baseball players who have taken steroids. What a shame that the wheels of government stop dead in their tracks because baseball players are on drugs. What's next.....? Okay... so I have a confession to make. Recently I was taking steroids for an illness. They were prescribed by my doctor (who, for now, we'll call "Doctor X"). I had a bad case of bronchitis and it took three weeks before I felt like I was back to my old self. During this time I played a couple of gigs and did two workshops. Now, though I had stopped taking steroids, I was probably still feeling the effects. My playing was faster and cleaner than it had been in years. I would like to say that it was because I had been working harder and practicing longer but I think in all honesty it was because of the steroids. Doctor X has prescribed steroids for me in the past. Once when I had pneumonia and two other times for bronchitis. On each of these occasions I did gigs while still under the effects of the steroids. The time that I had pneumonia, I received a mega-dose shot as well as pills. All of the other times I only took the pills. Congress has not yet called me to testify but I feel it is only a matter of time before I get the call. Months of investigation and millions and millions of dollars will be wasted looking into all the gigs I've ever done to determine which ones REALLY involved steroids and which did not. Pictures and video will be analyzed to check the size of my fingers. They will want to see if they are larger during the times when I was on steroids, thus giving me an unfair advantage over other players doing gigs on those same nights. I fear there will be an asterisk next to my name in the National Fingerpicking Guitar Championship record books. I can deal with that. My record stands and I'm telling you today that I was never using steroids during any guitar competition. Ever. Doctor X will testify and say the same things I'm saying today. So let's save the millions of tax payer dollars and call it a draw. ;-p THIS JUST IN FROM SOMEONE WHO READ THE BLOG ABOUT MY STEROID USE. The Top 10 Spin Off's from Pete and his Steroid Abuse... 10. Will probably never make the Baseball Hall of Fame. 9. Having to deal with his name being thrown around by Jose Conseco during Oprah show while pushing his new tell all book. 8. All gold medals from any past Olympic wins will be taken away. 7. California Governor Schwarzenegger will claim he never knew Pete. 6. Erin Morris has released a statement saying this explains Pete's constant whining to run down to the co-op for a bite. She's trying to get him into rehab. 5. With the secret out, this will end Pete's second career as an actor in adult films. 4. Pete is already receiving invitations to play golf with Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens though Roger feels like the odd man out (not being a user if you will). 3. No longer in the running to be on the cover of Acoustic Bodybuilder Magazine. 2. One good thing Pete can now run like O.J. Simpson through crowded airports, hurdling over gates with the best steeple jumpers of all time. And the number one spin off from Pete and his steroid abuse (drum roll please Anton)
1. Received a gift certificate and a lovely card from former New York Governor Spitzer for distracting the national media attention from him. |
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| March 5, 2008 |
| There's a thing called C.R.S. It stands for Country Radio Seminar. It's a big convention that takes place every year. All the radio people have discussions about the business and there are lots of performances by different artists. Garth Brooks played this morning. Tim McGraw is playing tonight. I played an early evening set with LeAnn Rimes. It was an in-the-round event with other song writers. Phil Vassar, LeAnn and a few others. It was interesting sitting in the back row all by myself while all the great writers sat up front and played their songs and told stories about the songs. We guitar players do the same thing at CAAS - the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society every July in Nashville. At one point Neil Thrasher broke a string in the middle of a song. He grabbed a guitar from one of the other guys on stage and continued on with his song. I had a spare set of strings with me so I decided to save the day. I whipped out my strings, took off his broken string, put the new on on and started to tune it up. Just as the song was ending I had the new string on and was fine-tuning it and then BAM! the new string broke too. Time for a guitar set up... I didn't get to save the day but it was fun trying. ;-) Saso Sver comes in from Slovenia tomorrow to record his CD here at my home studio. More on that later... |
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| March 1, 2008 |
| It had been a long time since I'd played in a bar. I remember them all having more oxygen and heat than the one from last night. It was funny. Trying to see which pieces I could pull off with cold fingers. There was a roaring fire in the big, stone fireplace. When we walked in to set up in the afternoon, the room was full of wood smoke from the fire place. So we opened the windows to get some air in the room. We didn't let in a lot of oxygen but we did get really cold. And the cold never ended even when the room was full of people for the concert. The center of the room was cozy but all of the perimeter walls could have used some insulation --- and lots of it. ;-)
Jim Roberts came and sat it with me. He played beautifully. The crowd loved him. So I asked him to do a solo piece for everyone. In the middle of his piece the rock band on the other side of the thin wall started in. Just as Jim was playing some beautiful harmonics (these are very quiet) the cymbals started crashing and the guitar player donning the strat needed to take a loud solo. We fought back by having our whole room sing the chorus of Brown Eyed Girl. But we were the only ones laughing. All in all it was a fun night. What could we do, after all... get mad? Might as well go into politics and I'm way too happy of a man to do that. |
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| February 19, 2008 |
| I didn't realize that people actually read these notes. But lately I've been hearing from folks that they would like to see more written here. So, in keeping with the times, we're changing the name from NOTES FROM PETE to BLAH, BLAH, BLOG. I will try to write more often and maybe, every now and then, it will be something of interest. ;-) I was on a cruise ship last weekend with Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours. We had a blast on the boat from Thursday afternoon to Monday morning sailing from New Orleans, LA to Cozumel, Mexico and back. Also on the ship were Michael Kelsey, Pauly Zarb and Bobby Cochran. We had a great reception starting at 7:00 PM on Thursday evening followed by a late-night jam that went until about 12:30 AM. (This was the perfect medicine for the migraine headache that I got as soon as we got on the boat.) I've had a couple of opportunities in the past to play with and see Michael Kelsey and Antsy McClain but I had not heard Bobby Cochran other than one time at Caesar's Italian Restaurant in Nashville. Because it was a restaurant he had to play a little softer than normal. When he's in his element Bobby tears up the rock solos on acoustic guitar with all the effects and volume of a high-powered Les Paul firing through a Marshall stack. It was great! Michael Kelsey is a high-energy performer who's writing gets better every time I hear him. We had a nice guitar pull on Sunday morning which forced him to sit and play in a way I had not heard him before and everyone really enjoyed it. He's got a lot of great material and I'm sure there's lots more to come. Antsy McClain - what can I say.... He's one of the most talented lyricists I've ever heard and I'm lucky to know him. His story songs read like Carl Hiaasen books. They have odd characters that get into odd situations. Some of his songs have sequels that show up later - sometimes years later - and it keeps his loyal fans listening closely to every word. When he wants to get serious he can do it in a way that you'll never see coming and before you know it there's a tear clouding your vision and you are left thinking about life in a different way. Cozumel was a lot of fun... all 4 hours of it. Eddie Mattingly, Erin and I went snorkeling and sat in the shade on a beautiful beach. We saw several folks who apparently did not believe in sunscreen. I've never seen so many people so sunburned. Most only on one side or the other. Winter White and Sunburn Red are the (skin-tone) colors for February in Cozumel. The best part of the whole weekend was having my cousin Sue and my Aunt Shirley on the trip! It was so fun catching up on everyone and getting a little more family history and perspective. Thanks Aunt Shirley for suggesting and suggesting that I start this blog again. ;-) Cheers, Pete |
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| July 22, 2007 |
| Well, I ordered the Harry Potter book back in February - as soon as I heard it was coming out. It was to be delivered yesterday. No book yet... ;-( UPS said they gave it to the USPS to deliver. It is frustrating but it will be a good read whenever it arrives ;-) It's been a great year so far. I played Carnegie Hall in NYC last March. I came home and floated 10 feet off the ground for a week. Needless to say it was a big deal. England and Switzerland were also recent highlights. Chris Nole, Mack Bailey and I went over and did two concerts in each country, several pub crawls and played lots of darts. I stayed a few extra days to fish in Switzerland. I wanted to go fly fishing in the Alps. The fish were very cooperative. I think the total was 18 brown trout in an afternoon of fishing. Much better than my normal day of fishing.
I head to Chicago this coming weekend to play at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival. That should prove to be a blast. I'll be sure to add lots of photos when I return.
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| November 27, 2006 |
| I played the Macy's Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony last Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) with LeAnn Rimes. It was a live TV for for ABC. The coolest thing for me is that it was just the two of us. We did Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree and All I Want For Christmas. I got to play solos in each tune and I left feeling like it was a great night for Fingerstyle Guitar players everywhere. We just don't make it on National TV very often. (Cable Access - yes. National - no.) LeAnn sang great as always. That's the great thing about her. She is so consistent and confidant in her work. She always makes me want to play better.
The band Third Day was also on the show. They are a really good Christian Rock band and a bunch of super nice guys. I enjoyed their performance and the lead singer is pretty incredible. Then on Friday and Saturday I played in Nashville with Wynonna, Donna Summer, the NCO (Nashville Chamber Orchestra) and a 100-voice choir. I was completely knocked out by Donna Summer when she sang Smile. What a performance. Of course when we did MacArthur Park and Last Dance - she brought the house down. What a week it was! |
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| August 10, 2006 |
| Several years ago, when I was touring with John Denver, we were in Concord, California at the Concord Pavillion. Because that is right near Danville, where I grew up, I had 56 family members attending the show. My mom, aunts, uncles and plenty of cousins. (We moved from Danville to North Carolina when I was in the middle of my junior year in high school - Christmas break nonetheless.) Well after the show I came back on stage to grab my acoustic guitar as I always did and after I grabbed it I heard someone say, "Hey, Pete!" I heard a voice that I had not heard in 17 years and I turned around and immediately said, "Mary Ann?" We had been in school together since kndergarden or 1st grade and I lost touch with everyone since moving to North Carolina and then college in Boston and 10 + years in Nashville. Mary Ann had been at the show with her feet resting on the stage right in front of me and neither of us had recognized each other. When JD introduced the band she couldn't believe I was standing there in front of her and I only had to hear her voice and I knew immediately who it belonged to.
So we've kept in touch loosely over the years. She tells me about her kids and husband and travels to Costa Rica and I tell her where I'm traveling and doing concerts. (I think she has the more interesting life.) Well, imagine my surprise yesterday in Lake Tahoe when I walked up do to a gig and there was Mary Ann and her husband, Dan, sitting there. Their kids are out of the house and they decided to make the trek to Tahoe and say, "Hi!" I have a great life. I get to see the world, play with great musicians, meet interesting people but when old friends will make a long trek to come and listen and hang out for an evening, that's when I'm reminded how truly blessed I really am. Mary Ann and Dan, thanks for the reminder... |
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| July 26, 2006 |
| The past month has been crazy. Great but crazy. I had several gigs in Colorado with my friends Mollie Weaver and Chris Nole. Then a fun gig at the Lamb's then it was several gigs with my pal Jim Salestrom. I had a couple of days off here and there and was able to see parts of Colorado that I hadn't seen before and I even got in a little fishing.
Wes, Doug and I went up to Wyoming to fish and what a trip that was. We drove from Saratoga for an hour or so and got on an amazing stretch of water. We each caught a lot of Tiger Trout. A beautiful hybrid fish. There were golden eagles, antelope and deer all around. Then I came upon a hole that looked promising so I tied on a streamer, cast it in and the water literally exploded! It was like dropping an M-80 into the pool. Four huge rainbows broke off before I realized I needed heavier line. By that time I had scared the whole pool. But I know where to go next time... Through the entire day we only saw 4 other cars. More fish than cars - that's my kind of day. Then there was a state wildlife area that I tried out and I managed to get in 15 minutes of good fishing before the afternoon storms chased me back to the car. Summers in the Colorado mountains always come with afternoon thunder and lightning storms. Standing in the middle of a river waving a 9 foot lightning rod is just a bad idea during a storm. So I sat in the car and decided to wait out the storm. I had driven a long way to get to this spot and I wanted every good moment on the water that I could get. So I pulled my book to read --- 1776. I figured I'd give it two hours before giving up on the day. It poured and poured and poured and after an hour and a half the river was a torrent of flowing mud and my eyes were droopy trying to keep up with General Washington. So I drove away and a little while later I was on the Blue River and my 2nd cast there rewarded me with a nice little brown trout. After Colorado I hooked up with Chris Nole and Mack Bailey in England for a couple of concerts. We had a wonderful time in Stokesley and Kirkby. Our friends Ray, Jackie and Dave and Pam put up with 5 days of our crazy antics. There was a group of travelers (gypsies) in Stokesley that caused much of the town to close down early one night for fear of fights, thievery and other shenannigans. We knocked on the door of the Spread Eagle pub and they opened up for us and quickly locked the door behind us to keep the gypsies out. Oh my, three guys locked inside a pub with all that beer and fish-n-chips! It was terrifying I tell you. But not to worry, we made the best of the situation. I came home after a month a few pounds heavier (back to Southbeach) and full of good memories of gigs, fishing and new friends. Life is good! |
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| June 7, 2006 |
| I had an amazing opportunity last weekend. I was asked to fly to London and record at Abbey Road Studios with LeAnn Rimes. It was just me on guitar and LeAnn singing. We recorded 6 songs for a new TV show called Live At Abbey Road. LeAnn is such an amazing singer that she makes everyone around her step up to the plate and do their best. After working with her I think she's easily one of the best singers alive. Every performance is fantastic. The show will begin airing worldwide sometime in November but I don't know when our particular episode will air. We were in the room where the Beatles recorded and I have to say it was almost spiritual for me. Check out the photos on the photo page. |
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| March 30, 2006 |
| Last weekend I played at the Fly Cultural Arts Center in Shelbyville, TN. My good friend, Jim Wood, helps them organize the concerts and brings the P.A. Jim has also been a big influence on my life as a player. We met in college where he told me I wasn't a very good banjo player... I appreciated his honesty so I practiced some more. Over the years he has helped me to understand groove, taught me a lot about backing up a fiddler, got me started on DADGAD tuning and what a great instrument is versus a good instrument. Jim was also the biggest influence in getting me to start competing on guitar.
Well last weekend we had a blast playing a set of Celtic music at the concert in Shelbyvlle. It was one of those rare nights where we got into the "zone." Everything just felt so good. Jim said he received several calls this week from folks who said they were on the edge of their seats waiting to see what was going to happen next. I told him that is the way I feel during most of my concerts. And I'm the one putting on the show! ;0) |
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| March 19, 2006 |
| I had a new pickup installed in my guitar this week and I have to tell you all how good it is. It's made by Fishman Transducers and it's called the Ellipse Blend. It blends a Matrix pickup with a microphone. It's got all the great low end of the pickup that I've loved for years and the mic adds warmth and believability to the sound. The sound is fantastic but what's even better is that the controls are all on board and you don't have to cut up the guitar. I've been waiting for years for a system like this. If you try one, let me know what you think.
Pete |
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| January 28, 2006 |
| AMERICA WEST DELIVERS TOOTHPICKS TO FOLK SINGING TERRORIST!
I believe the airlines have gone too far with this. How is the working musician supposed to get from one place to another? If airline employees are having a bad day they can become bullies and if we stand up and ask questions we are terrorists. What interesting times we live in.
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You've probably all read about my horrible experience with Delta Airlines last summer and their policy of not gate checking guitars. Other luggage is okay. Tubas are apparently okay. Banjos are okay. Ukeleles are fine too but guitars are specifically listed as not okay to gate check. Well my friend Jon Pousette-Dart was on an America West flight recently. He checked in one guitar and carried another on board in a soft gig bag. Before the plane left an America West employee boarded the plane and told Jon that the guitar would have to go underneath or Jon would have to get off the plane. Jon asked what the problem was and the guy told him that terrorists could use the guitar strings as weapons! The guy was not exactly nice about the situation when Jon tried to plead with him... "The instrument is expensive, it could get damaged down below, please - isn't there something we can do?" The answer was simple "The guitar goes underneath or you get off the plane." With no other options, Jon gave them the guitar. When he got off the plane they handed him a soft gig bag with very expensive toothpicks. They absolutely ruined his guitar! It is beyond repair.
| January 17, 2006 |
| Seems like yesterday when I last wrote a few things here. But as I look at the dates I see it was nearly 2 months ago. The Jim Croce DVD lesson is out as of the 3rd of this month and it appears that it is a hit! We've had so many, many great comments about it and I just want to say thank you all for the support and give you a little background into making the DVD lessons. First I got a call from Happy Traum of Homespun Tapes, INC and he asked if I would be interested in this project. He had the blessings of Jim's family and the publishing company was ready to grant the rights to the songs we wanted to use. I had to think about it for.... oh... about a minute before I said yes. I do have to say though that it takes quite a while to prepare for the lessons. But for this one I didn't care. I wanted to do it and I wanted to do it right. The same way I feel about all the things I do. We set a date of early May and I got to work learning the parts to the songs we had chosen and writing them all out. (Yup, I write out every note that I teach). Everything was set and then a couple of days before we were to tape the lesson I got sick. I mean I got really sick. I had to head to the emergency room in the middle of the night and they thought I was having heart failure because of a pre-existing heart condition so they transfered me, by ambulance, to a better hospital. After a bunch of tests, 10 days in bed and a couple of months on pills they finally decided I had pneumonia. --- You've never seen someone so happy to have pneumonia. A friend and I split a bottle of wine in celebration of the fact that I did not have heart failure. So we set a new date for early September. I usually get to Woodstock, NY - where we film the lessons - the night before. I don't do much the night before. Hang out in a hotel room, order room service and watch a bad movie. (I rarely watch tv or movies - just can't see wasting all that time watching someone else's life go by on screen). Then the next day we get into the studio. We spend few minutes (literally) saying hello then I get out my guitar and start playing while everyone in the studio gets everything set. Make up, lights, sound and cameras. I have to have a fairly bland shirt. (I have shown up with some wild shirts in the past only to be told "Nice try, got anything else.") I have to remember that the lesson is really about the lesson and not about my new shirt. Well, after an hour and a half or so we get started filming. Usually there is a glitch of some kind at the beginning. Bad make up, or lighting or microphone. Whatever it is, they always fix it within minutes. Then the real work for me begins. I sit in a studio and talk to 3 cameras for about three hours until the lesson is done. I try to imagine a person and not a camera so that I can speak freely as if you, the student, were sitting in my living room - or as if I were sitting in your living room. After we finish filming, we head out to dinner at my favorite restaurant in Woodstock - The Bear - and chitchat for a few hours. The restaurant is great! Right on the river, great food and great wine. So my work is pretty much done at this point. I've spent at least a month preparing. Transcribing all the parts meticulously and practicing them so that I know them so well that I can teach them. I've tried to get inside the parts and figure out the patterns that come up over and over again, learn where JC puts a fill and more importantly, where he doesn't; The things that create a style. But now Homespun has to really get to work... They have to do all the editing. Take out a cough, cut out my talking when I ramble too much, put in all the markers for all the points in the lesson where a student might want to get to quickly. It takes them at least as long to do their job as it did for me to prepare for mine. Then after a few months they send me a disc to look at and review and I call them with notes. In the meantime they have to design the cover, decide on the sequence of songs (though I do try to plan the lesson from easiest to most difficult to help them with editing) and plan for the overall layout of the package. Somewhere in there I send the music that I have transcribed to the person who does the layout for the booklet. (Ever notice how the booklets are all laid out the same? Well, it's not by accident) I e-mail all the files that I have created to their guy, John. John checks every note I play on the finished DVD with the music I have sent to him. He then e-mails me with notes and questions to clarify what I have sent. We send lots of e-mail back and forth working together to make sure everything is correct. John puts the book of music together and gets it off the the printer. Then I get a DVD about the same time it is availabe to the public.
There you go. The making of a DVD lesson.
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