Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
Today marks the first time that musicians not affiliated with a label or royalty collection agency can collect revenue direct from a free streaming music platform. Read on…
I’m running a little poll to help me better serve you. If you could take just a moment to answer the following question, I’d greatly appreciate it. Read on…
A URL shortener service called Bit.ly launched today. It has some great features that convinced me to switch from using Metamark to shorten my URLs. Read on…
“I will never say anything that couldn’t stand as the last thing I ever say.”
The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
You’re listening to a piece of music and it sounds so simple and easy that you say to yourself, “I can do that.” But can you really? And if you can, how come you haven’t yet? Read on…
Rescue time is an application that has become very important to my weekly GTD review. It’s helping me put some metrics to my writing goals. Read on…
The concept is this: To be a good, competent songwriter, it will take 1,000 hours of practice. If you want to be a great songwriter, it will take 5,000 hours. Read on…
In this episode I share my experience as a victim of fraud, my current Strength for Life Reboot, a couple of new projects, and I discuss my Song A Week 2008 project.
This song is about planning an exciting future with a fine woman.
Kevin Kelly is back again with some feedback on his article, 1,000 True Fans, by musician Robert Rich. Read on…
A funky blues about a devious woman.
A Unix program called Remind is one of the greatest tools for keeping your goals and projects on track. Where calendars like iCal and Google Calendar come up short, Remind fills in the gaps.
This is a song about second chances.
This is a song about showing up.
This song was inspired by Dance Punk artists like LCD Soundsystem and !!! and by an episode of WNYC’s Radio Lab on the Wright Brothers.
Kevin Kelly writes that the long tail is a blessing for aggregators (Amazon, Netflix) and consumers. But not so for creators. Read on…
Mind Hacks pointed me to an interesting study by science journal PLoS One on the cognitive neuroscience of Jazz.
I’ve talked about the Shepard Tone before but NewScientist has just posted Five great auditory illusions.
I just discovered a new music marketing blog (hat tip to Gerd Leonhard). The post that caught my immediate attention was The Top 10 Music Social Networks.
I'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
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