This is not my typical experience, but I actually completed every musical goal I set at the begining of the year. I’m just as surprised...

This Summer, I started teaching guitar lessons. It’s been interesting learning guitar again through beginners’ eyes and hearing their...

Today I’m going to talk about something I learned in music school. It’s called “offloading” and it’s one of the reasons I was able to...

I’m the type of person who wants to do a lot of creative projects, so many in fact, that the vast majority never get done.  A lot of...

When I thought about demos, I used to imagine a shittier version of the final song: badly recorded, unedited, and with a sub-par...

I had the opportunity to share one of my songs in class and have it critiqued.  The song was pretty much done; I just needed to re-track...

Lots of people are afraid to start something on the grounds they won’t be any good.  I’m that way.  We’re usually right about it too, but...

When I tell people I’m going to school for music, they often assume I want be a rock star, or at the very least a full-time musician. ...

Eddie Van Halen is famous for his tapping technique, but he wasn’t the first to do it.  In fact, hundreds of years before “Eruption,”...

A few years back, I had a ton of musical ideas floating around my head.  I wanted to write it all: hip-hop, EDM, singer-songwriter,...

I recently read Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon.  Austin is a writer who uses drawings, photos, and blackout poetry to illustrate his...

I’m not the best guitar player, the best songwriter, or the best anything, really.  This is hardly news, but I bring it up because in the...

My first EP was released in 2015.  I recorded it in my parents’ basement with affordable equipment and my own limited tracking skills. ...

Well, the semester is winding down and so is my final project.  My three song EP is due this week and I’m putting on the finishing...

This is the perfect topic for today because right now I don’t feel like writing.  I’m in the school library sipping a La Croix, trying to...