Tom Izzo Music

01/01/2025

Happy New Year! #2025,

12/13/2024

If you’re looking for a great stocking stuffer, gift certificates are available on my website:

https://tomizzomusic.com/gift-certificates

Happy Holidays!

Store for Tom Izzo Music, a songwriter artist from Meriden

09/19/2024

This is the first in a series of guitar based instrumental tunes I’ve been working on.

06/11/2024

06/11/2024

This is one in a series of quick sketches I’ve been throwing down to stay creative. Not everything has to be a finished polished product!

03/29/2024

I have a modest, yet truly excellent roster of guitar/songwriting/theory students. Today I’d like to take a minute to acknowledge the good work of Tim Amato who released a wonderful EP of instrumental music.

I’m reminded of alternative and progressive rock, moody 70’s horror film music combined with a DIY 4 track aesthetic. Tim had a clear vision of what he wanted to do and I think he met his mark.

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02/21/2024

When I improvise like this I’m hoping to force myself out of familiar patterns. The game is to generate lines from random harmonies that fall under my hands.

There’s usually sour notes and fumbles but that’s fine. I’d rather do that than play the same thing every time I pick up the guitar!

02/19/2024

01/10/2024

The Major Scale is the main ingredient in so much music. It’s worth learning about!

01/09/2024

Three ways to play the same lick:

Take the licks you already play and create variations:

1. Original idea
2. More notes/ornamentation
3. Less notes

There are a ton of ways to create variations. What I played in the video was simple to better illustrate my point, you can get a lot out of a little bit of music!

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01/06/2024

01/05/2024

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