Songwriting Analysis: Why We Don’t Get Tired of Jimi Hendrix “Little Wing”

If you study jazz, you start with the standards.  But in my opinion standards also exist in the rock guitar lexicon as well — and this Jimi Hendrix gem is definitely one of them.  It’s a seemingly simple tune which repeats just one verse progression over and over.  Where does its …

Get Used to Winning: The Art of Setting Underachieving Goals

One of the best lessons I got from the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki was this: Set goals that are so easy to achieve, it takes no effort at all. Though “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” is a book primarily about money, Kiyosaki was referring to exercising — …