I was reading up on Leo Kottke and came across this info.

In the early 1980s, Leo Kottke began to suffer from painful tendonitis and related nerve damage caused by his vigorous and aggressive picking style. As a result, he changed his picking style to a classical style, using the flesh of his fingertips and increasingly small amounts of fingernail rather than finger picks, and changing the positioning of the right hand to place less stress on the tendons. He also studied more classical and jazz-oriented compositional and playing techniques.

Googling and looking at interviews trying to come up with some more info on exactly what part of his hand was injured and all of that.

Anyone happen to have some info on this?

Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Kottke#...w_playing_style

For those who have not seen this or forgot about it. Amazing videos..

Always absorbing and frequently brilliant, Leonard Bernstein's The Unanswered Question is a very lucid and convincing discussion of music's history and forms, with particular emphasis on modern music. It addresses the average intelligent listener who is not musically trained but wants to know what makes music work--what is meant, for example, by "tonal" and "atonal." It requires some concentration, but Bernstein, a superb teacher, keeps technical jargon to a minimum, illustrates what he means with musical examples and graphics, and repeats key points.

Delivered in 1973, the talks were transcribed for a book, but in it Bernstein insists "The pages that follow were written not to be read, but listened to," really an endorsement of the video edition. The talks are, in fact, performances. Television was always kind to Bernstein; he had magnetism and knew how to use it. To illustrate various points in his analyses, he plays the piano frequently, sings occasionally, and conducts significant works of key composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Ravel, Debussy, Ives, Mahler, and Stravinsky.

Bernstein traces the development of music from its origins to the 20th-century struggle between tonality (championed notably by Stravinsky) and atonalism (represented mainly by Schoenberg). The last two talks, devoted to these composers, are particularly enlightening, but all six are outstanding. He argues persuasively that humans are born with an ability to grasp musical forms, and that rules of musical syntax are rooted in nature--in mathematically measurable relations between tones and overtones.

These talks are a key document. They coincide chronologically, as cause and/or symptom, with the movement of America's leading composers back from Schoenbergian forms toward a tonal orientation. Bernstein predicts and promotes this movement, which is still in progress. He is clearly an advocate of tonality, but he discusses atonal music with sympathy and understanding. --Joe McLellan



Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3HLqCHO08s

2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_fxB6yrDVo

3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IxJbc_aMTg&feature=related

4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwXO3I8ASSg&feature=related

5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPGstQUbpHQ&feature=related

6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWeQXTnv_xU&feature=related

I was using Powerpoint and word for a long time and although it worked it was a pain in the ass lining up all the dots. took forever. Was going to start using adobe illustrator.. which is pretty awesome but overkill.. then I came across Neck Diagrams. http://www.neckdiagrams.com/ It has saved me a TON of time.. what do you use? anything better than neck diagrams out there?