Topics covered: Songwriting for busy people, capturing song ideas, GTD (Getting Things Done), organization, productivity, iTunes, GarageBand, Logic Pro, inspiration, motivation, tagging, mood markings, songwriting techniques, review, Hit Song Cheat … [Read more...]
Musicians With Day Jobs: Get More Energy…
Lori has some useful tips if "you're perpetually trying to squeeze more hours into the day to get more time to work on your music or other projects." Check her out: Useful energizer software for musicians who still have time-consuming day jobs … [Read more...]
Turbocharge Your Practicing
A practice schedule is an important part of your musical development. My sax teacher, Nathan Davis, used to tell me, "Go without practicing one day, and you know. Go without practicing two days, your friends will know. Go without three days, and … [Read more...]
Your Goals As Waveform
An audio waveform makes a really cool metaphor for your pursuit of all your goals. A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space, often transferring energy. That's a fascinating sentence. A wave is a disturbance. It is an interruption … [Read more...]
Productivity And The Present Moment
It's cool to see 43 folders writing about Mindfulness. … [Read more...]
How To Write For Busy People
Seeing that I'm deep into optimizing my [tag]GTD[/tag] system at the moment, this seems appropriate: How to Write for Busy People It's important to remember that my readers are busy people too Bodhisattvas. … [Read more...]
Kinkless GTD 0.83 Released
YES! Kinkless GTD 0.83 has just been released. I've been refreshing the site all weekend. Go get it: Kinkless GTD 0.83 … [Read more...]
Songwriting For Busy People
Mind Hacks posted how choice is demotivating when there are too many options. "Offer students a choice of 6 essays, rather than 30 essays, for extra-credit and more will take up the opportunity if there is less choice of essay titles - and, what … [Read more...]
Is There A Quick And Easy Way Of Acquiring Absolute Pitch?
Shaan: I work during the day and have little time in evening. I really really want absolute pitch is there a quick and easy way of acquiring this skill? Graham: Shaan, can you commit 15 minutes a day 5 days a week? In my experience, that's all you … [Read more...]