Tag: piano lessons

I am currently going through the components that can help someone to become a professional musician. In the last post I covered the playing part, meaning that most working musicians have to practice their instrument for long hours to get the skills they need. It is now time to open up a new chapter in…

What is a musician? What are the necessary components to navigate the modern music industry? What tools do they need? What education? What quality? This blog will look in depth at this topic. Ok, enough with the intro. Let’s get into it. I’ll try to go first with the most obvious. A musician is someone…

So far, we talked about being a musician and how people say it’s not a good idea. All these talks that surrounds the budding pro musician are called interference. But the interference are just that: interference. It is not the truth. Not at all. Music is what you want it to be (yes, really!). It…

You have to keep your cool. When the problems come, when they are over your head, when you are submerged: you have to keep your cool. This concept is essential when you run a small business such as being a professional musician. Let’s take an example. Let’s take batman. In one of the latest DC…

If anyone has seen me in the last 2 years, they know that I do some woodwork. It doesn’t mean I am good at it. It means that I am very happy when two pieces of wood that I shaped actually fit together. That’s my claim to fame in wood work. I like the patience…

I teach many different patterns in drumming. Some are fairly straight forward and involve three limbs. Some are much more intricate and ask for odd combinations. I’ll name those odd combos: something on the right side of your body falling exactly at the same time as something on the left side. Very difficult to do.…

Here is something particular: why would you want to show to your teacher something you didn’t prepare? I get into this kind of situation all the time: The student is supposed to do a rock beat from a page, one that I have demonstrated for him on video the week before, one that he has…

There are a million ways to listen to music. Actually, all day long, whether we are in our car, in a restaurant or an elevator: some kind of music will be playing. The form of music we are most familiar with is the one coming at us while we are doing something else. Something else…

Monk was once asked if his hat was influential in the way he played. He said: “No!… Yes!… I don’t know!”. The answer is hard to understand because the question is hard to understand too. It’s a package thing. But now, let’s say that Monk likes to work on wood and make furniture. Let’s assume…