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Ruining a subject

In high school I hated history. It was my least favorite subject. I remember almost all of my history teachers…

Learn simply to learn

Learning something simply to learn it can be incredibly gratifying. It can be very satisfying and fulfilling. But one of…

Unsexy advice

I think some of the best advice is often boring advice. It’s standard. It’s not sexy. But it’s still good…

Think time

When learning we often expect ourselves to understand everything quickly. Immediately we want to understand a new concept, even if…

Originality is over-rated

Hear me out. I don’t mean that being creative and making things and finding new ways of combining old ideas…

You have to play bad solos

In order to play good solos you have to play bad solos. You have to mess up. You have to…

Practice as little as possible (Video)

Writing by hand

I write almost all of my music out by hand before ever making a sequence or opening up a DAW.…

What is education for?

This is a big question I know, but as someone that works in a school it’s something I think needs…

Creativity is a skill

While listening to Akimbo, Seth Godin’s podcast, Seth Godin mentioned that creativity is a skill. It takes practice to be…