Timing Is Everything.

As a musician, you have the advantage of applying what you already know about rhythm in music to the rest of your life. Establishing a good tempo, getting into a groove, working with meter, and aligning with your natural sense of rhythm are pieces of musical knowledge that can be translated into how you manage your career, what your daily habits and routines look like, and how much time you have to put into your creative work.

Although many great musicians have suffered in their personal or professional lives, a Whole Musician approach maintains that being a prolific artist, cultivating effective time and energy-management habits, and designing a creative and meaningful career are three interdependent aspects of living a fulfilling musical life.

Join JP as he discusses seven distinct time orientations and explores some innovative ways to make more time so that you can create more music. 

This is the third of four in the Musical Lifestyle Series of SOS podcasts.

 

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With whom do you share your music? Do you have reliable people who will support your creative process by giving you honest feedback while also understanding and respecting where you are coming from?

Who you are is inseparable from who you relate to. As social beings, we are constantly influencing and being influenced by others. By discerning who you share your art with you can more effectively direct the flow of your musical focus and learn to make the connection between the people in your life and the music that comes out of you. Your community, friends, collaborators, audience, and family members all have an influence on your music, so you might as well choose to be around people whose influence is positive and welcome.

Listen in on this episode as the link between music and relationships is explored from four distinct angles: friendship, competition, intimacy, and fantasy.

This is the second of four in the Musical Lifestyle Series of SOS podcasts.

 

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Where are you right now? Are you at peace with your environment? How does your music express and reflect the places you go and where you live?

If you’re a songwriter, recording artist, or performing musician, you know what it’s like to clue in to the vibrations in your music–to feel your way into the sound. You can use the same sensitivity to find your spot, one moment at a time. As you become more aware of the subtleties of your environment, you can either fine tune yourself so that you deepen your groove with your location or adjust your location so that it gets into a more of a groove with you.

Join this episode of SOS as we explore the power spots, rooms, neighborhoods, towns, and regions that make you feel most at home with yourself and your music.

This is the first of four in the Musical Lifestyle Series of SOS podcasts.

 

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Is songwriting more than just something you do? Is music a way of life? How does your music influence your lifestyle? How does your lifestyle influence your music? Do you experience the same sense of creativity and adventure offstage as you do onstage?

Artists are often associated with certain lifestyles and they are not necessarily expected to be in sync with the rhythms and habits of mainstream society.  But what exactly makes up an artistic lifestyle? Is it the hours you keep? The friends you hang out with? The clothes you wear? The town you live in? If you look closely, you will probably find that the lifestyle and the music of the artist are intimately connected and that there are as many lifestyles as there are lives (just as there are as many musics as there are musicians).  So why is so little attention given to Conscious Lifestyle Design?

Join this SOS podcast as we begin to explore four foundational aspects of crafting a sustainable artistic lifestyle. 

This episode is an overview of the upcoming “Musical Lifestyle” series of podcasts. 

 

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Fame. Celebrity. Star. Superstar. What do these words bring to your mind?

Are you famous? Do you want to be? Are you hoping to be famous someday? Have you given up on your chances at fame? Has fame never been important to you in the first place? Are you secretly jealous of those who have achieved notoriety?

Though fame may be a powerful resource, the quest to achieve or sustain it can be a grand illusion and costly distraction–one that that holds many artists back. The quest for connection, on the other hand, brings with it the promise of deeper relationship–to the music, the audience, and to oneself.

Join the SOS conversation as the last of seven common myths of musicianship and the creative process–fame–is explored from a broader perspective than usually addressed in most music and entertainment circles.

 

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