Cameron Mizell

My good friend and Stellar Ego frontman Guy Prandstatter is on a mission to write 100 songs in 100 days to inspire others to make a difference.

For this week’s Woodshed Wednesday, we’re going to take a different approach to playing scales. Typically, guitarists play scales in a linear fashion–play two or three notes on one string and then continue on the next string. Today, let’s try playing scales across the strings, like you would arpeggiate a chord. Done properly we can create lush, harp-like ringing, legato scales.

Calley Bliss and I will be performing a last minute show this Saturday, January 14, at Brooklyn’s Goodbye Blue Monday. We’ll be playing music we’ve been writing for our latest project, When We Were Six. Our last show was in July, just before Calley took an opportunity that pulled her out of the city. Chances [...]

I’m excited about 2012. Jill and I visited family and friends in St. Louis over the holidays and had a wonderfully exhausting time. We capped off the trip with a 17 hour drive with our cats, Grandma’s piano, and Grandpa’s rocking chair in tow, all successfully unloaded at 4am in chilly Brooklyn.

It’s that time of year again! As many of you may know, I’ve recorded a few Christmas albums in the past. There’s nothing new to the catalog this year, but in case you haven’t downloaded these in the past and need to add something to your playlist this year, here are some options. They’re all destined to be classics, so you might as well be among the first of your friends to own them, right?

For this week’s Woodshed Wednesday, we’re going to talk about the about the absolute best way to learn music: Transcription.

This past week I got a nice surprise–my good friend, bassist Andrew Wilkins, was stopping by Brooklyn while on tour! It was one of those last minute bookings, but I gladly rearranged my schedule to spend some time with him.

Last week I returned from a 19 day trip to Boise, Idaho, where I was teaching guitar classes at a private arts school.

Wait, let me back up for a moment…

Over these last few weeks I’ve published two new articles on MusicianWages, a website I run with my friend Dave Hahn. The first, How To Find Work as a Gigging Musician walks through everything I know about developing professional skills as a musician and then finding work. It’s not an easy career by any means, [...]

Here’s a video of the opening of last month’s performance at the Tea Lounge, featuring the tunes “Tributary” segueing into “The Bottoms” (about 3 minutes in). If you don’t recognize them by now, that’s Kenneth Salters on drums and Brad Whiteley on keys.