Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Percussion Workshop: "Found" Instruments

 WORKSHOP: Found Instruments & Body/Vocal Percussion


HELLO! My name is David McLean, and I’m your instructor today. This handout is what you will receive at our "Found Instruments & Body/Vocal Percussion" workshops.

Let’s quickly cover a few items….

Saturday, April 1, 2023

The Assignment!

(ED NOTE: I'm not sure why this jumped to today's note when I added an up-date. The original piece is over a decade old - The Affordable Care Act was under discussion in 2009 and signed into law March of 2010....so this discussion, and what I wrote below, is quite dated.)

It started at Facebook. The discussion was over the (then) newly proposed Obama-Care plan (though we could be discussing ANY hot-button topic). The original post:

Class - Today's POLITICAL LESSON: With all the fighting going on about health-care and such, today you must argue CONVINCINGLY for the OTHER side. If you can't do that, then you not only don't understand any other option but the one you support, but cannot see & address the problems with the plan you support. Sooo...who is up for the challenge?

Ignoring the discussion that ensued (for the moment, anyway), here is my entries (I argue both sides):