5 Ways Fasting Can Improve Your Music Life

For the last four months I’ve been experimenting with fasting, mostly for health reasons. I’ve been trying to fast starting Sunday nights and ending my fast on Tuesday at lunch, and every 3 months I go for a longer 4-5 day fast. As usual, Tim Ferriss turned me on to this in his podcast (click here to listen to it) but I’ve been surprised at some of the benefits for musicians that I didn’t expect. Health benefits aside, here’s my top 5 things fasting does for your music career that nothing else can:

Lifestyle, Music BusinessEric BarfieldJanuary 23, 2017 Comment

The Music Lesson: My Music Book of the Year

If you haven’t read Victor Wooten’s book “The Music Lesson”, you’re missing out. Bassist Victor Wooten goes tells a semi-allegorical tale about learning the 10 elements of music, and it’s blowing my mind right now as I read it. While I love a lot of the concepts on music, there’s quite a bit a disagree with regarding some of the eastern mystic philosophy in the book.

inspirationEric BarfieldJanuary 20, 2017Comment

5 Things That Make You Better When You Collaborate

I love working with people. I’m lucky enough to live in a town full of amazingly talented musicians, but even if you live in a not-so-musiciany town, you can get a lot out of collaborating. Here are the top things that fire me up about collaborations:

Eric BarfieldJanuary 17, 2017Comment

Where to Now?

LifestyleEric BarfieldJanuary 11, 2017Comment

MainStage Mondays: Today I Launch www.PatchFoundry.com

After working on it for several months, I am officially moving all of my MainStage blogging, tutorials, and patch design to a separate website. When I started focusing on MainStage about 3 years ago I had no idea how much this part of the site would grow, and it’s finally time for it to have it’s own dedicated space on the web. The new site is called Patch Foundry. The new site offers a completely retooled series of patches built from the ground up using the tricks I’ve learned from some of the best sound designers and mix engineers in the world.

MainstageEric BarfieldJanuary 9, 2017Comment

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