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About 8 years ago I was working on learning Mozart's Adagio and Allegro in F Minor for "organ."
Except, it wasn't REALLY for organ. Mozart wrote it for mechanical clock organ - a popular device in his day.
Because of this, the piece is notoriously difficult to play for a non-mechanical...
"There is no new thing under the sun." - Ecclesiastes 1:9
Recently, I learned that a much larger YouTube musician had made a video. It had a title and thumbnail quite like one of my own from last year.
Trust the "Process"
I had a different newsletter planned for today. But, some things happened this week that made me change course.
You all know me as a musician, but there's another side of me that I keep very private.
I must admit, I'm also.....a raging sports fan. More...
As many of you know, about a decade ago I graduated with a master's degree in piano performance, and thought to myself...now what?
I had been studying composition for several years as well, and I knew I wanted to write my own music. I also loved film music and video games, and found that whole...
I've talked a lot lately about the process of finding your own artistic voice.
But as some of you have rightly pointed out, that might not be the goal for everyone.
There's an entire industry around making music to fit someone else's vision. This can include music for film, music for ads, or...
Sell your knowledge instead....
Someone asked me recently how they could make money from their sounds.
A valid question.
My advice? Don't.
It seems that most artists today are still concerned about increasing their streaming numbers, or selling more merch/sample packs, or figuring out some way...
There's a lot of focus on music marketing today.
Too many gurus, not enough teachers.
Here's the thing though, marketing isn't "bad" - it's really just understanding human psychology and using it to promote something. Thanks to the abuse of marketing in our world, our minds associate it with...
We all want our art to be seen and heard, but it's often the experiments we do in the dark that mold us.
There's an expectation today that in order for our music (or any artform for that matter) to be "successful." it has to be seen and hear RIGHT NOW.
If it doesn't happen, we're told to move...
"It doesn't go through your filter, it goes through your conduit."
Last year, my friend and very talented pianist/composer/artist Marie Awadis reached out to me about a really intriguing new project.
It was her first experiment with vocal-focused ambient, but she felt that something was missing...
