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So a good friend of mine is close to winning this Willy Wonka contest by having the most downloads of his music. So in an effort to help him win this contest, I’m throwing up the video player here and asking that anyone who comes across my blog to please give his songs a [...]

The much anticipated new Death Cab For Cutie CD Narrow Stairs was released yesterday. My wife grabbed a copy from Target for only $9.98. My first reaction is that this is a great overall album. After a couple more listens, I’m beginning to think this is an awesome album. And with [...]

This one is for all you piano-playing Matt Nathanson fans. After listening to Some Mad Hope several times through (which is a great album by the way, highly recommended from a long-time Matt fan) I thought that it would be cool to figure out Heartbreak World, which is the third song on that album. [...]

I just finished watching Steve Jobs keynote address on the new line-up of iPods. My first thoughts are they did a really good job overall of overhauling the each of the iPods, and offering some really great new features. Starting with the Shuffle, they could have done more than just a few new [...]

Last month my wife had a professional piano tuner come by the house and tune our piano while I was at work. I got home that day and she said, “Come sit down and play the piano and tell me if it sounds any different.” Yeah it sounded different, it actually sounded good [...]

We saw Death Cab for Cutie last night and wow what a show! We skipped out on the opening act and found a spot out in the middle of the crowd about 10 minutes before the band walked out on stage. We cut it close but made it just in time. The [...]

Now that I’m getting a hang of using this transcribing software, I thought I’d try out another favorite Death Cab song that’s fun to play on the piano. This is basically just the intro part, but just enough to at least get the gist of the song. This song is fairly easy and can be [...]

October 15th, 2006: I mentioned a few days ago how I wanted to transcribe Transatlanticism instead of trying to describe how to play the song in words. Well I found some old software I had called MIDI Orchestrator Plus and thought I’d give it a shot. It was kinda a pain to [...]

So I was watching CSI: Miami last night and was totally surprised to hear Death Cab’s Transatlanticism come in right towards the end. I recognized it after the first chord of the piano either because I’ve listened to that album so many times or because I’ve played those same chords on the piano a [...]