Music Inspiration Journal: #23 The Challenge, The Puzzle
As we navigate throughout our lives – as musicians, professionals, and as human beings – we encounter new experiences that challenge us to grow. In my own study of music, whether through lessons, performances, or my own exploratory process, I’ve recognized some different ways to encounter novelty, to transform the unfamiliar to the intimate.
Music Inspiration Journal: #22 Crossing the Void
“Crossing the Void.” This phrase has always struck me as important, or at least intriguing. Because, what does it mean? Crossing the gap? Bridging the shores? Stepping into the unknown, as life? For me, when I started really steeping in the imagery that this phrase invoked within me, a deep and almost fundamental importance seemed…
Music Inspiration Journal: #21 Tips From Ryan
First off, I’ve gotta send a special and continual thanks to my dude, Ryan Murray who’s out there hustling and working the music scene in LA right now. This dude has been a continual force of inspiration in my life in general, encouraging me to push boundaries, to continue growing, and to keep cultivating my…
Music Inspiration Journal: # 20 Visualizing Practice
This entire train of thought lead me to contemplate what qualities of mind seemed to characterize our capacity to dream; the presence of deeply detailed imagery and the way that these images shifted appeared as one of the biggest and most obvious observations for me. Naturally, I began to wonder if I might be able…
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