I’ve been writing my 2021 goals. I have a document I add to over the year and modify as I go. It identifies key areas I want to work on and both big and small objectives. These can be in […]
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New Song – Christmas Heart
Edit: 12/24/2020 Here’s a free download of Christmas Heart We’d still love it if you viewed and shared the YouTube video. Thanks. No pressure… BUT DO IT NOW!! Last year, two days before Christmas (12/23/2019) I wrote a Christmas song. […]
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9 SONGS Update – video and links
All 9 Songs are uploaded as video performances with a short origin story on the songs. Here is a short update video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kBra_zFt4M As indicated in the video, I recorded guitar for Escape as well as, The Tide and Take […]
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Announcing the 9 SONGS Music Project
9 SONGS: Recording & Production Project I’m excited to announce, 9 SONGS, a recording and production project I’m launching today. Without going into too much detail, the goal is to remedy a long-standing problem of moving on to the next […]
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Song Lyrics: Promised Land
Posted on Facebook 8.9.2020 PROMISED LAND © 2008 Matthew Moran The story behind the song A few weeks after my divorce in 2008, I was driving back to California to visit some friends and family after playing music in Colorado […]
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New Music: Ordinary Man with lyrics
About Ordinary Man Written in response to my disenfranchisement with myths I was taught as a child – about the country, about our history, and systems that seem intractable. Further inspired by the current climate in the country. The lyrics […]
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Travis Picking Lesson including downloadable pattern graphics
Travis Picking… finally First: The video and downloadable PDF and graphics can be found below. I am going to to provide some context for why I created this tutorial. I avoided learning Travis for MANY years. I have plenty of […]
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New Music – Take Your Cares Away
I was coerced into writing this song I’m not complaining but it is the truth. A couple weeks ago, during an evening storm, my girlfriend and I were in my room talking and playing guitar. We had opened the window […]
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Virtual Songsalive! Workshop: The Proactive Songwriter
As I write this, I have a browser tab open and am chatting with a new friend in Norway. Haakon Rian “mAncient” Ueland is a healer, monk, and musician. We met last night as part of Songsalive! Inaugural Virtual Song […]
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