How Much Time Should You Practice?
There are so many different opinions when it comes to practice time. If I practice more, I should get better…right? Wrong! This entire...
Balancing My Hobbies And My Music Career
My music career has allowed me to have such a flexible schedule with my hobbies. My main hobby is martial arts. In fact, it is more...
What It Is Like To Teach Private Students
When I went to college, I really thought I wanted to teach in the public school system. As I was going through college, I became more...
What It Is Like Being A Freelance Musician
Believe it or not, I have only had two jobs - event staff at my high school, which was a student-worker job, and being a musician. Both...
Engineering in My Home Studio
Do you need recording done for your musical theater project, original EP, or track you’ve always wanted to lay down? Well, my home...
What Online Lessons Are Like With Me
Skype lessons can be pretty intimidating to people who want to study music, but can’t physically be in my studio. Understandably, the...
How to Get Great Vibrato on the Guitar!
From one of my last blogs, I spoke about tone, and how important it is to sound like those great guitarists. In my opinion, 85% of your...
Why Bruno Mars is Wrongly Accused of Cultural Appropriation
For me, it is really aggravating to hear things from so many different people, friends, and colleagues about how Bruno is “stealing” from...
How Can We Sound Like The Great Guitarists?
Have you ever wondered why that solo just does not sound right? Maybe why that “Stairway to Heaven” or “Purple Haze” solo just does not...
Music Directing a Top 40 Band (CityScape)
No matter what style the band, how big or how small, music directing can come with many challenges, but is very rewarding. As a music...
