Why this tune? This week’s tune is the third single from my Groove Park project that drops on Friday July 28. “Waiting For My Beach” is a country beach song with an ironic twist about the very real threats of climate change. The narrator is an eternal optimist who just wants to make sure thatContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Waiting For My Beach”
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Tunes on Tuesday: My Own Worst Enemy
Why this tune? This week’s tune is a tribute to musical communities, specifically two online musical gathering places that have made me a better musician and songwriter and introduced me to artists from around the world. This is my second year participating in February Album Writing Month (FAWM), an online community of songwriters that hasContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: My Own Worst Enemy”
Tunes on Tuesday: What About Us
Why this tune? This week’s tune is the second song I completed based on the weekly Torah portions (parashot) that are part of the Jewish tradition. The song tells the story from Numbers 27(Parashat Pinchas) about the five daughers of Zelophehad … who successfully argued for the right of women to inherit property if thereContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: What About Us”
Tunes on Tuesday: On All Other Nights (Passover 2023)
Why this tune? Passover starts this week on Wednesday night (April 5, 2023), this year mostly free from the shadow of the pandemic. I wrote “On All Other Nights” before the holiday in 2020, when those of us celebrating had to change our in-person plans. I was delighted that Julie Mack agreed to record theContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: On All Other Nights (Passover 2023)”
Tunes on Tuesday: Pi Day 2023
Why this tune? It’s Pi Day, when the date (for us Americans at least) March 14 matches the first three digits (3.14) of our favorite mathematical constant, Pi (π). Tunes On Tuesday marks the day with a new version of my Pi Day song, which I wrote in 2015, a very special Pi day, whenContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Pi Day 2023”
Tunes on Tuesday: Let’s Resolve
Why this tune? Tunes on Tuesday starts the new year with a new song written on New Year’s Eve. I started the song with I started the song with a twist on the concept of New Year’s resolutions. What if we resolve to not make any? That evolved into a sort of love song, whereContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Let’s Resolve”
Tunes On Tuesday: 45 Seconds
Why this tune? I just updated the Original Music page on this site, adding audio and video clips plus charts for a bunch of songs I’ve written recent. While editing the page I saw a short song I recorded eight years ago that I refreshed for Tunes On Tuesday. “45 Seconds” was the musical responseContinue reading “Tunes On Tuesday: 45 Seconds”
Tunes on Tuesday: Powerful Questions
Why this tune? You may not think of software development as musical, but it inspired this week’s song. I took a course recently on Agile Coaching, learning how to help software teams use Agile processes to work more effectively. One of the many coaching tools we learned was the use of “powerful questions.” These areContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Powerful Questions”
Tunes on Tuesday: Pelican Cove
Why this tune? Here’s another song from this year’s 50/90 project, inspired by another morning walk around the Pelican Cove Condos on St. Croix. I saw the sign for the condos as I returned and remembered that I had seen an actual pelican off the beach a few months before. The phrase “I saw aContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Pelican Cove”
Tunes on Tuesday: Sunflower In The City
Why this tune? My wife, who always has good ideas, offered me a way to get out of a songwriting rut and feed the creativity engine. She suggested looking for song ideas on my morning walks around the neighborhood. That inspired this week’s tune, triggered by sunflowers growing in a nearby community garden. It’s aContinue reading “Tunes on Tuesday: Sunflower In The City”
Oren Levine, jazz pianist and songwriter 