GAYLA M. MILLS
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Synopsis: Making Music for Life: Rediscover Your Musical Passion provides a road map for amateur musicians over forty, whether they play jazz, roots, classical, or rock. It guides them with their musical pursuits, offering tips on the best ways to practice and jam, enjoy playing with others, get gigs and record, and bring more music to their communities. Most importantly, it’s a guide for discovering how music can help them live and age well.

Bio: Gayla M. Mills is a hobbyist roots musician, former college instructor, and writer with over sixty published essays and features. Returning to music to help her husband record his songs, she discovered a new life in a rich musical circle. For Making Music, she conducted extensive research and scores of interviews to add to her fifteen years experience with music learning and performance. ​

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  • Book
    • Purchase
  • Essays & Features
    • Music >
      • Music Under a Tennessee Moon
      • A Future Imagined
      • Nashville Lights
      • Finding the Right Key
      • Practice
      • 12 Reasons Live Music
    • Family >
      • Opening a Closed Book
      • Powers of Two
      • A Father's Spring
      • The Last Day >
        • Spry Interview
    • Funny? >
      • A Treatise on Farting
      • All Steamed Up
      • Puppy Camera
    • Mortality >
      • Dead Bodies
      • Being Whole
      • Shaken Ground
      • Soft Spot
    • Living Fully >
      • Everything's in Color
      • Becoming Human
      • The Immortal Years
      • The Cost of Jury Duty
      • Broken Bones
    • Home >
      • Brick by Brick
      • Best not to Know
      • The Bouquet
    • Chapbook Collection: "Finite" >
      • The Buffet
      • Girls in Their Summer Dresses
      • Puppy Camera
      • Deer Hoof
      • The Fireplace
      • Summer Cooking
      • Gardner
      • The Bouquet
      • Sandwiches
      • Rugelach
      • Inheritance
      • Kneed
      • Dead Bodies
      • Snapshot or Video
      • January
      • Phyllis
      • Being Whole
      • The Immortal Years
      • Practice
      • Falling
  • Fiction
    • Enraptured
    • Buried Treasure
    • Soaring
    • Evening
  • Contact