I took classical piano lessons when I was young, and as I grew older I began to play by ear, write my own music, and read chord charts. I took music classes in college, and refined my knowledge of music theory, ear training, piano and voice. I taught myself how to play guitar when I [...]
For the past 5 or so years I have taught a handful of students guitar and piano lessons. Here are some of the iphone and ipad apps that I use on a regular basis when I teach.
1. Guitar Tool Kit- This one app contains a metronome, tuner, chord bank, chord finder, scales reference and more. [...]
I have entered on of the songs “I Do” from the “Hopes Prayers and Lullabies” cd in to the Fan Faves chart on Indie Heaven. I need your help, your votes to move it up the chart.
It’s simple to participate.
1. Go to www.indieheaven.com/fanfaves
2. Choose “VIEW ALL” from the drop down menu. (note: If “I DO” [...]
Over the summer I have been working on recording my first all piano CD called “Hopes Prayers and Lullabies” Now that it is finished I thought I would get back to posting instrumental reflections like I did last year.
This song is called “Not Forgotten” and was written as background music for video for our worship [...]
Digital-
The complete Hopes, Prayers and Lullabies CD is now available for download on indieheaven. You may access it one of two ways. The first is to go straight to my indie heaven site. www.indieheaven.com/artists/russellmartin or go to my purchase page on my website www.forkintheroadmusic.org/purchase. You may download individual tracks or the entire CD.
Physical-
If you live [...]
You may have read or heard that my wife and I have started the process to adopt a child. I knew from the start that this would be an expensive process, so I began to think of ways we could offset the cost of adoption.
This is when the idea for a piano CD of lullabies [...]
I teach guitar and piano lessons. I love music, and it’s great to help others to enjoy it too.
I see most of my students once per week, and some once every other week. In those thirty minutes I try my best to explain, demonstrate, and encourage them to learn whatever concept or lesson we are [...]
For a while I have been posting instrumental reflections for you to listen to or use for altar times, personal devotions etc. Up to this point the only way to listen was by clicking the play button with in the post. I am glad to announce that I will be making the instrumental reflections downloadable [...]
For a while now I have been sharing my Instrumental Reflections with you. These are primarily piano pieces composed and recorded at one sitting, which can be used for prayer times, altar times, devotionals, journaling, nap time or just to relax to.
I began wondering if anyone did listen, and if so which of the reflections [...]
While I sat down to write this I had the words to the hymn “Old Rugged Cross” stuck in my head. The phrase “On a hill, on a hill far away, stood an old rugged cross, an old rugged cross” kept echoing in my head. That rhythm became the recurring theme of this song.
Check out the previous Instrumental [...]
