Life on the road is interesting for sure. One of the things I really don’t like about the road is waking up in the various parking lots across America (or anywhere else for that matter). Let me the share the events of a special morning with you. Detroit, Michigan, May 14th. I awoke when I decided that being cornered by … Read More

Wow! The tour has begun! It was a crazy intense feeling to get things back together for the start of this leg. Not only was it the first show of the tour but it happened to be in front of 10,000 people in Mexico City. I flew out to Mexico City from NY accompanied by Mr Petrucci. I met him … Read More

OK people… What I did was take ALL the notes that you suggested in the order that they were received and had one of my transcribers (Jordan Baker) write it down in musical notation. Then I came up with some interesting harmonic motion which I used for this diary entry! This was a cool challenge! The order of the notes … Read More

Today I did a bunch of piano practicing early in the morning after I got back from walking my younger daughter to the school bus. I have been practicing a very hard piece, so I’m actually working it out on the digital piano with the volume on very low. There is nothing worse to me then listening to me or … Read More

Today was quite busy for me. Took some time off programming LTE stuff to explore LOGIC 8 and KOMPLETE by Native Instruments. A mix of joy and frustration occurred. The usual when getting into new technology. About half of the Komplete package is not working right yet, so I made a bunch of notes to get to the technical people … Read More

Things are busy in JR land. I’ve been buzzing about many things here on my break and very busy with my musical endeavors. The Keyboard Magazine Webcast went very well the other day. It was exciting to do as it was a very new thing for all of us. My host was Tom Brislin who also accompanied me on some … Read More

Today I walked in to the studio and started working with the Roland Fantom G 88 again. I had not seen the instrument since early January because it was needed for the NAMM show in California. It took a little while to get reacquainted with it. Finding the various functionality that I needed to get the job done! I’m preparing … Read More

Its been a fairly busy time at home. I guess its true that I like my work, since I have spent a lot of practice time at the keyboard since I got home! One of the things that I’m doing is preparing for the Keyboard Magazine live web cast coming up on Thursday March 27th at 10pm EST. Should be … Read More

Well I made it through all the shows in South America without getting sick. That was an accomplishment I thought considering all the intense travel and unusual conditions we had to deal with. I DID get sick however on the way back to Caracas after all the gigs were over. When we were about 40 minutes from Caracas I came … Read More

The concert in Bogota last night was very exciting. It was a bit of a struggle for me personally, because the sound in the hall was really echoey and it made things unclear in my in ear monitors. But you guys don’t want to hear about that and besides, we don’t get paid to complain, we get paid to ROCK, … Read More