12th of October Blog update
It’s been a good week for me 🙂 I got to play some nice music with my friends, got all of my blog posts out in time :-D, finished recording few more songs for the next album and actually managed…
October 12, 2014
Don’t forget to practice
In the past week I played three shows and three sessions, wrote six blog posts, four songs, redesigned a website, spent several hours trying to get my head around some basic CSS, spent more than healthy amount of hours on…
Take Me As I Am
I often thought why do we have this underlying need to somehow chance the person we are in relationship with. I think I’ve seen more relationships over the years go down the drain due to this, than anything else. Instead…
80/20 rule of learning to play guitar
Posted at September 10, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Guitar
When I was young and budding guitar player, I wanted to learn to play the guitar like Jimmy Hendrix, like Jimmy Page, like so many of those hairy hard rock guitar heroes of the late eighties and early nineties. I…
7th of September Blog update
Posted at September 4, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
So we are a full week in to September! Autumn is a funny time, it’s no surprise I hated school when I was young. And in September the next summer holiday was the furthest it could be 😀 So now…
Crafting a song
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J.P. Kallio
in Songwriting
I haven’t written anything on songwriting in a while and as I am in a middle of writing a new patch of songs, I thought it might be a good time to share some of my tips and ideas here…
The Purpose of a Singer-Songwriter
I’m sitting on the stage in the Porterhouse. It’s only 45 mins to Sliotar‘s Saturday night set. I’ve set up my equipment and I am strumming my guitar, just for myself. The house sound system is on and playing whatever…
Passenger, Whispers
Michael Rosenberg, better known as Passenger, is no newcomer to the music business. “All The Little Lights” exploded him into the awareness of the general music public, and deservedly so. But those who thought he might be a new to…
Musical instruments and Airlines
Posted at March 6, 2014 by
J.P. Kallio
in Travel
I’m once again flying high up in the air somewhere over England. I’m on my way to one of my favorite German cities, Munich. I spent quite a bit of time there in the past few years and developed a…
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