In this last post on GregHowlett.com, I want to leave you with some things that matter to me. I want to talk about highs and lows and big moments and regrets. And I want to give you some final thoughts. Before I do, please let me address some of the comments that I have received […]
Category Archives: Thoughts
I am going to write two more posts in this farewell series and then call it quits. The first is going to be a discussion of why I am leaving music. The second is going to be some final thoughts I want to leave you with. So why am I leaving professional music? The first […]
Sometimes people write clever blog titles to get attention. There is an art to it. I don’t spend much time on blog titles myself but sometimes I write a catchy title by accident. A few years ago, I published a blog post about how to end a song right and I titled the post “Saying […]
I am hesitant to write what I am about to write because it might sound like I think I have things figured out. I am actually quite sure I don’t have much figured out. However, I like to talk about things that are important to me and what I am going to talk about today […]
Tis the season for all kinds of reflection over the past year and Spotify has a cool little tool they provide for artists to give them a snapshot for how their music is working there. I have to admit that I had never even signed up for a Spotify artist account but I took a […]
I dropped a lot of negativity a few weeks ago about professional music. Today, I am going to give another perspective though not about the same genre. If you are one of those pianists that wants to earn a living in music, I encourage you to read this Rolling Stone article. As it turns out, […]
Yesterday, I wrote Part 1 of this series and want to finish with Part 2 today. If you comment on this post (or yesterday’s post), you get a chance to win a free signed copy of Brian Buda’s new advanced arrangement book with Lorenz (Hands to Heaven). Brian was the winner of my arrangement contest […]
At the bottom of this post, I am going to tell you how you can win a free signed copy of Brian Buda’s new advanced arrangement book with Lorenz (Hands to Heaven). Brian was the winner of my arrangement contest a few years ago and that arrangement is in this book. What I am about […]
When I exercise, I listen to podcasts and often the podcast I choose is Dave Ramsey. There was a time where I really did not care for him that much; and I still have some reservations –but I have grown to appreciate him a lot more. The thing about Ramsey is that he understands something […]
A decade ago, I joined a CEO group called TEC (now Vistage). Each month, a different CEO hosted the group and we talked shop. My first meeting was in the fancy offices of a really nice CEO. As I recall, he was prominent in local politics, on the board of the county library system, and a […]
I have been reading Lost and Founder by Rand Fishkin which is his story about his startup company (Moz). A lot of what he writes hits me in the gut for several reasons. To start, we are about the same age and have had a lot of similar experiences with a similar path of learning. […]