If you’ve found musicians who you resonate with on the deepest level, you also know it can be intimidating to approach them. It’s easy to feel unworthy of their time, attention, and friendship. These are our creative heroes after all! Why should they care about little old us? What could we possibly have to offer? …
5 new ideas to help navigate the age old pursuit of finding your voice. Here’s a hint: finding your voice isn’t a one time discover, it’s a daily opportunity! Journal Prompts 1. Our voice is the group of musicians you associate with 2. Your voice isn’t notes on recordings. We play more than just notes …
Josh Harmon–comedic drummer behind the mega-viral “Rhythms of Comedy”–on the emotional behind the scenes of being the most viewed drummer in the world. This is not an episode on how to win the social media lottery, but rather what life is like offline when you do and whether being a viral success is actually the …
Jenna McSwain–singer-songwriter, pianist, mother–on gardening, allowing abundance, leaving a teaching gig to be a full time artist, getting in touch with our bodily experiences, organically grown gigs, navigating the impulse to make your bandmates happy while honoring your own desires, and mom lessons.
Noah Baerman–pianist, composer, educator, and activist–on playing with a physical disability, being open with our challenges, performance injuries, therapy mindsets, gratitude for our time with music, dealing with grief through composition, chasing truly selfless acts, crossroad moments, and “the process of the pursuit” of enlightening experiences.
Jamison Ross–soul singer, drummer, and Affective Music label owner–and I share our biggest fears and dreams right now. We talk about accessing new layers of awareness, interpreting spectrums of music, gospel chops, being afraid people won’t hear you, making big career moves, understanding layers of fear, the ceiling for transplants in a music scene, and …
Nick Finzer–trombone maestro, educator, and Outside In Music label owner–on finding and connecting with people that care about what we do and answering the big question; Why should anyone care about your music? Listen for why websites and email still definitely matter, hyphenating your career, using a media company mindset, building a hedgehog concept, and …
Hannah Johnson–drummer, teacher, and a true personal pal–on being a goober, the magic of having a best friend, femininity in music schools, finding a life-changing mentor, the toxic chase of impressing jazz bros, public school substitute teaching, the art of being a good friend, teaching girls to play loud, fast, and take of space, and …
Cyrille Aimée–vocal sensation and life-improviser–on how her students sound incredible and they don’t know it, and strategies for getting back the moment. We talk about finding permission to stop judging ourselves, putting health before work, figuring our where “home” is as an adult, how to live a freer lifestyle but still take care of business, …
Gaspard Panfiloff–French balalaïka maestro–shares about his incredible mountaineering concert series Tournée Des Refuges. In our hike of a conversation we pass mountain energy, how to get people off our phones and into the music, turning a performance into an experience, the magic of music, building a mobile recording studio in a truck, enhancing band camaraderie, …