I received an email this week from a young singer songwriter about developing a career in the music industry. Here’s an excerpt of our conversation:
Read More
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:
Read More
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.
Read More
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:
Read More