Note: This blog post is sort of a follow up to one I wrote a few weeks ago and is geared to those interested in the professional side of music, especially publishing. Yesterday, I emailed a book of arrangements to my editor at Lorenz. The book will be published next year and is a Christmas […]
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I know posting has been light here recently. Let me give you a quick update on what is going on and then get to the main point of this post. Yesterday, I finished the initial draft of a book for Lorenz (Christmas arrangements). I need to go back through them and wrap up my initial changes over […]
I think one of the hardest things for musicians to do is to intentionally play at a level of sophistication that is lower than they are capable of. We are wired to want to demonstrate our skill; in some cases, we just flat out want to show off. In my early years, I remember picking out […]
As of next week, I am going to be a college student again. I signed up for one class (an advanced harmony class) at Berklee College of Music. I don’t know where it will lead but I chose to take it for credit so if I decide to pursue a degree, it will be a start down […]
I recently noticed that my channel on YouTube has gone over 5 million views. By some standards, that is not very many views but from a business standpoint, YouTube has been very good to me. This is going to be a business post about my history there. For those of you that are professional musicians, […]
As I mentioned in my last post, I was at the Composers Symposium last week meeting with other writers and publishers. One of the big things we did was introduce our music to each other and get publisher feedback. In the room were decision makers for Hal Leonard, Lorenz, Fred Bock and probably other publishers […]
I spent this week at the Composers Symposium at Pine Lake Music in Atlanta, an event where church music publishers and writers learn from each other, present songs to each other, network, and in general, laugh a lot. If you know much about me, you know that I have never been published. There are good reasons for […]
I am in the middle of recording my new project and last week, took some time to learn Melodyne. Melodyne is an amazing piece of software that allows you to manipulate individual notes inside of a sound file. That sounds like a big deal because it is. Think of it this way. Let’s say that you […]
Honestly, this has been a brutal week. I should have several songs recorded by now for my new project but I don’t have any. There have been a few technical things that have ruined what I have done so I have to start over. In the meantime, I recorded this video to give you a bit of […]
One of the lessons that I have to understand as a recording artist and concert pianist is this: I can’t play all kinds of music. That is a humbling thing. It is a hard thing to accept. I have struggled with it. In fact, if you listen to the music on my projects, you will […]
When I was young, I practiced on an mid-upright Baldwin Hamilton piano that my parents bought for us. That piano was everywhere back then because it was sort of a happy medium between a spinet (an “upright” piano that was maybe only 4 feet tall) and a full upright which we all coveted but could […]