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Demos, works-in-progress, guitar tutorials, general songwriter discussion (most material here only available for paid subs).
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GUITAR TUTORIAL - "Easy"
Watch now (4 min) | Got such a great response for the Cold In The Summer tutorial, I figured I’d put up another. Put questions or requests for other…
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LISTEN: New song demo - "My Dreams Are Getting Weirder"
Some time last year, I discovered Leith Ross on TikTok, thanks to a recommendation from Said The Whale’s Tyler Bancroft. At the time, I thought TikTok…
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Being Somewhere Lyrics
I was asked in the AMA section for lyrics to the new album. Of course, they’re included in physical copies (CD or LP) but I figured it’d be nice to have…
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GUITAR TUTORIAL - "Cold In The Summer"
Watch now (5 min) | Often, folks will reach out asking if the tabs they’ve found online are correct. Nearly 100% of the time, these tabs are garbage. So…
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LISTEN: New song demo - "Diminishing Returns"
The other day, I wrote a song over Zoom with my old friend Jonathan Sunde. I first met Jon at C’est What in Toronto in 2009. I’d been billed with his…
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More or Less Songwriter Series
A few years back, I spent a day chatting about some songs of mine with a filmmaker pal Stuart Gillies. He cut ‘em up into 3 little episodes.
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