Musician, Writer, and Photographer
It doesn’t matter if you’re an athlete, a writer, a musician, or a juggler, there comes a time in skill development that you reach what’s called the “OK Plateau.” This is when you get to a point where you’re content at what you can do and then plane out with going further. Some skilled people …
I got into instructional videos much later on into my musical training. I’m talking about twenty years into it. See, the way I started out was taking private lessons; I then supplemented these private lessons by going through all the lessons in magazines like “Guitar For the Practicing Musician” and “Bass Player.” I had a …
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 …
Back in 1997 I started sending out my first batch of demo tapes for my band, Cea Serin. I would send tapes to anyone and everywhere. Any webzine, magazine, fan site, or record label out there that would reply to me would get a demo tape. Sometimes I got really great reviews and this made …
The vast majority of musicians I’ve ever run across pretty much all share a similar trait: they’re comfortable at the plateau they’ve reached in their playing abilities. By that I mean they’ve reached a certain point in their playing where they’re happy with where they’re at and they now have no desire to push beyond …
