Thank you to my friends and fans who are interested in what I’m up to in my “free time,” i.e. when I’m practicing. I was asked to do a “shred” video, so here’s a little different kind of shred than you’d probably see with a bass. Thanks for watching! -Nathan H. Fox Continue reading »
Category Archives: Music Performance
An old jam session with the Blast Company
If Indiana had only one thing going for it, music is definitely at the top of my list. Here is some old but distorted footage of one of the most intense jam sessions ever to be unleashed upon the state. World class musicians, an empty school, and pure tenacity for improv. Lineup known as of … Continue reading »
Musicianship and Mastery – You Don’t Know ‘Jazz’ Sh*t
For over twenty years I’ve been a defiant musician in the sense I know how to keep practicing despite the dry spells of gigs, those paying well I mean. Jazz isn’t a term everyone uses when describing music, but I’ve come to a certain humility about the genre that begs the question of all American … Continue reading »
Musical Technique and Pain – Crossing Thresholds
Whether one is a concert pianist or an amateur guitarist, musicians must endure extraordinarily subtle pain to get ‘the chops,’ a state of instrumental awareness, familiarity, and precision used by the musician to convey tonal ideas. But such a state is so easily overlooked for more tantalizing options like: flare: superfluous musical statements that exist … Continue reading »
