Tag: Chicago drum lessons
When you get in the zone.
I am not sure if my title is correct. Do we still call it “the zone” these days? Or is it that we are “hot”? Or that we “groove”? I am sometimes lost in the hip English lingo. Forgive me, I’m French. What I am talking about is that particular state when everything falls into…
The King is dead, long live the King!
Google used to be the dominant platform to get your name out there. Small businesses like mine would rely heavily on the traffic they would get to survive or even thrive. Apparently that isn’t true anymore. Google has changed and isn’t the best way to make yourself known. It was not a good news for…
When to push.
The answers is always. That’s it, that’s my blog for today. Thank you very much, see you next blog, don’t forget to like and subscribe. All right, ok, I’ll calm down. When do you push? Good question. Another question: what do you push? Let’s cut to the chase and say you are practicing and you…
What is important in music?
Music is a very abstract art. Once the notes have disappeared we’re left with just the memory. Yet, we, as musicians, sweat out the details. That’s because we try to make the listener’s memories last forever. We think that if we craft the notes with more thoughts behind them, we will have a better chance…
What’s in a musical performance?
We are today in the digital world and we might think that music is produced by machines. Therefore, the reasoning goes, the skills necessary to play an instrument are getting rarer and rarer. I, for one, don’t think so since I’ve got a full schedule. Plus, we still have to this day a ton of…
Entertainment in or out.
We are always battling this notion theses days: should we be entertained from the outside in or the inside out. Did you see that? I just opened with a mysterious sentence. I hope you’re intrigued enough to stay with me for the explanation. Being entertained from the outside in is pretty simple and easy: TV,…
Technological headaches.
Being a musician these days is not an analog job anymore, especially if you’re have an instrument that can only play music from the 1900 on like the drum set. If you’re in that category, you’re going to have to deal wit some kind of machine. Oh, I am not complaining, it could be worse,…
To be respected in music.
I talk with other drum and piano teachers regularly and I am always surprised that their experience of being a private music teacher is so different than mine. Their grief runs like a laundry list of what we all imagine are the typical obstacles of doing that job. I’ll give you a few of them:…
Every day music.
I must be nuts. Every day for the last 40 years, I’ve been thinking mainly about one thing: music. That’s not only a long time, but it’s crazy. Now, let’s tame that statement a bit, shall we? I’ve crossed different eras in my journey, some intense some not so intense. There were some times when…
The famous exercises in drum or piano.
There are some exercises that have gained fame and fortune in the studies of instruments. There are so well-known that it’s a matter of minutes before drummers or pianists talk about them. They usually have names that the common mortal wouldn’t understand and that mystery itself envelops the exercise of an even more attractive aura.…