Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
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.
Gerd Leonhard, co-author of The Future of Music, just released his new book, Music2.0. Read on…
It’s the 5th annual February Album Writing Month. The challenge? Write an entire album in just 29 days. Read on…
I snuck out of Boston for a few days and infiltrated the NAMM show as a buyer for Denver School of Music. The highlight was meeting jazz legend, Herbie Hancock.
With subtle accompaniment by longtime friend Herbie Hancock, and a slide show that has opened the minds (and pocketbooks) of CEOs across the country, artist and youth activist Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music and unlikely partnerships.
Seth Godin dishes 14 tips to musicians on the cusp between old and new media. Read on…
Here’s some recent podcasts from around the web that I’ve been inspired by musically. Read on…
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.
Listen Up, You Twits: The Twitter Jazz Network http://ff.im/-hs5QT 12 hrs ago
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