Musician, Writer, and Photographer
I don’t know what it takes for an acrobat to get an invitation for a Cirque Du Soleil audition, but for me, a musician, it was quite a process. I’m sometimes asked about exactly what I did to get an invite, how I prepared myself, and how the audition actually went. Well, let me take …
In Victor Wooten’s Groove Workshop, and in his book The Music Lesson, he talks a little bit about how a musician, or how any artist for that matter, can get a wealth of new inspiration by applying methodology and techniques gleaned from other areas of artistry. For example, you can watch how a pianist plays the …
As you cruise through your life as a budding musician you might get to the point where you have to make an audition video. I’ve had to make several of these. And nothing sounds worse than recording a video where you record the audio through the air. Ugh. This goes double if you’re a bass …
I know that sometimes when it comes to learning a difficult piece of music it can sometimes seem to be an insurmountable task. I know that whenever I come across something that’s too fast or too complicated and it just buzzes by in under a second it just feels like I’ll never be able to …
I’ve been on a couple of auditions now. And before every audition it’s the same thing: All the time leading up to the audition I feel great; I’m confident; I know the songs; this is going to work out fine. You got this, cowboy. But then it never fails – 30 minutes before the audition …
