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Working as a musician (Video)

Quantity leads to quality (Video)

Practice improvising

I’ve been practicing improvising on both piano and guitar recently and I’m taking the approach that a number of my…

Use this practice tip to practice effectively (Video)

Only practice the hard stuff

If you’re trying to practice efficiently then you have to basically only practice techniques and musical ideas that are difficult…

Learning Patterns

I’ve been practicing jazz piano recently. I’ve been working on learning standards by ear, improvising over them, and playing walking…

Writing gets easier

One thing I’m noticing as I continue to write music more and more is that it gets much easier to…

Repeat material

One thing I learned at Berklee while studying composition is about repeating material. One of my teachers said to never…

You Have to Play Bad Solos (Video)

Composing is composing

I just finished writing a piano quartet. It’s the first piano quartet that I’ve ever written. I wrote it to…