Every day brings new challenges. Just getting up in the morning can require faith, fortitude, and remembering your purpose. But as an artist, you have the opportunity to start again, every morning, as a new person; to reinvent yourself as you would a new piece of music. Join in the conversation about using your artistic license to refresh your identity as you continually refresh your music.
Many musicians have graduated from the “ground school” phase of technical practice and study to be able to delve into the deeper aspects of musical knowing that one could call musical wisdom. Still, there are even more riches to be found in music’s mystery when we begin to apply principals such as rhythm, pitch, form, frequency, and dynamics to the rest of our life. Join the conversation about music, knowledge, and integrating them into a “whole-person” framework.
If playing determines the joy of music, hearing determines the intelligence and meaning. Check out this distinction as it relates to three very different aspect of music creation: MAKING music, PRODUCING music, and MANUFACTURING music.
SOS Episode #4: Listen Up! The Art Of Hearing in Making, Producing, and Manufacturing Music: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWhat if you didn’t need to aggressively promote your career and you could still build the kind of musical following you deserve? Join in the discussion about cultivating musical power without resorting to the use of force.
SOS Episode #3: Music, Marketing, and Hype: Do We Really Need The Hype?: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadJP played and sang the Hunter/Garcia composition for a friend in May, 2007. Listen in on the private concert.
“What kind of music do you make?” This question has been the bane of many creative artists’ careers. Duke Ellington hated to be categorized, Bob Dylan has eluded genre, and Joni Mitchell risked her audience’s loyalty many times by refusing to be pigeonholed into a style. Listen to “The Death Of Genre” and find out why there has never been a better time to be “beyond category.”
