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Reimagining the future part 2

5/28/2020

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The inside of my mind in pandemic.
Performing live is over for the foreseeable future. Going to any kind a show prior to either the virus dies out or a vaccine miraculously appears is done like dinner.

Time to reimagine the future.

What's not happening?
  • large ensembles
  • jazz camps
  • Tranzac club performances
  • Array studio performances
  • conventions and in-person workshops
  • student recitals

What can happen?
  • social media video posts
  • online communities
  • piano and guitar trios performing in safe spaces
  • duos at my house
  • online recording projects
  • collaborative online projects
  • learning new musical skills to share with my students
  • practicing my instruments: Piano, Drums, Synthesizers, and DAW
  • composing for my students
  • personal online learning
  • collaborative projects with other music teaching professionals

David
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The future of music groups

5/28/2020

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We've all heard the stories of one choir member infecting nearly all of her choir mates! I can't imagine any return to normality until there is a vaccine. 









What's out:
  1. community bands of all types
  2. jazz clubs
  3. festivals
  4. in person music lessons
  5. jamming

What's in:
  1. practicing
  2. studying
  3. online recording/jams
  4. taking care of our musical deficiencies

Stay healthy, 

David


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Time to reimagine your future

5/24/2020

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Covid-19 WTF! You may have caused a more rapid and catastrophic seismic shift than what talkies did to silent movie ear stars in the 1920’s. Or, synthesizers did to studio musicians in the 1980’s. Or, Napster did to the recording business in the early 2000’s. Those events took a few years to upturn everything. Covid-19 about 2 weeks.

Truly a black swan event.

Now what?

Good question. Time will tell. In the meantime, time to step up and take care of business.
  1. Take care of your tribe, act responsibly.
  2. Take care of yourself.
  3. Be gentle with yourself and temper your expectations on how you will spend your time waiting for a resolution to a global problem.
  4. Be a good citizen. Not an irresponsible jerk or worse.
  5. If you are riding a dead horse, best to get off. Mourne and move on as soon as you can. It is time to reimagine your future.
David
 

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Forty five years in, are we still listening to the same playlists?

5/15/2020

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Perhaps too many of us are. And, maybe we don't give a shit either. But if you feed yourself from music in some way, it might be time to get up to date. 

I teach piano. Classical and Jazz piano play lists are stuck and rarely move. Bought a new book of modern piano music. Turns out many of my adult music students are hip to the artists therein. 

With Dad and Granddad bands, playlists can be just as stuck. So, I've engaged a drum teacher half my age and asked him to show me his world. Staying as fresh and open as I can.

​David




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Networking in the time of Covid-19 Does it make sense?

5/11/2020

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Darn Tootin' it does. This won't last forever. Reach out everyway you can to stay in the loop. Project positivity, keep moving, keep practicing. Be ready.


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