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Learning/Recording Music – The Beginning
In October of 2005, I picked up my first musical instrument. I was a nerdy, chunky little boy who brough home a clarinet. After a year I decided I didn’t like the clarinet and swapped over to saxophone. Fast forward 16 years, 8 instruments, roughly 100 different performance venues, and here we are today. My…
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How to Teach Yourself Piano
I learned how to play the piano in highschool. Being in the highschool marching band, I was around many people who grew up musically and that was not me. I was the only one in my family who played an instrument for an extended duration of time. I remember distinctly coming home one day after…
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Great Smoky Mountain Trip – December 2021
What started as a spontaneous urge, turned into one of the most remarkable, quickly planned trips of my lifetime. Growing up and living most of my life in the midwest, we rarely get to see hills let alone mountains. In the gap time between Christmas and New Years, I decided it was time to make…
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Chess – How and Where To Learn
As I mentioned in this blog post, 2021 was spent learning the game of chess. It started with a simple google that turned into a year long YouTube binge due to Levy Rosman, or as he’s known on YouTube, GothamChess. Gotham taught me a ton about the game, and this video was where I started.…
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Chess – 2021 – The Climb
March, 2021. Jon – 800 ELO. Brandon – 750 ELO. Kinda friends, kinda chess players, where do we go from here? We set a goal. By the end of 2021, we would both hit 1200. The beginning to any skill is finding out where to learn, and how do we get better? The way I…
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Chess – The Beginning
One of my favorite recent games that I have gotten back into is the game of chess. Chess is an art, well, a skillful art. 64 squares, unlimited possibilities, billions of permutations, one outcome: win, loss, draw. What’s not to love? Queen’s Gambit really got the excitement back in chess. I grew up playing, not…
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Week 2: Chapultepec and Teotihuacan
Week two coming at you straight from South of the good ole USA. The second week here was incredibly welcoming. Things started to become a bit more familiar as we would wander the streets. The nerves of being in a new country and barely knowing their languages started to fade a bit, and I was…
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Taqueria El Kalifa
El Califa Taqueria El Califa is a really awesome spot and the Al Pastor is out of this world. What’s cool about the Al Pastor here in Mexico, is that it’s rotating on an open spit, kinda like how Gyro meat would be in Greece. My native friend told me his biggest quarrel with tacos…
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Week 1 In Mexico City
What Brought Me Here: In August of 2019, I received the fantastic news that I would get the opportunity to be abroad in Mexico City off and on for the next seven-ish months, and man, was I STOKED. I work for Ford. Yeah, that big blue oval Ford that makes things that go vroom. Myself…
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