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Tools for Musicians is your invitation to do the inner work that transforms how you show up—onstage, in the studio, and in your life.
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Musicians: The Promise of a New Season, and Why Your Mindset Counts (opens the original)
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Every September, it happens. The back-to-school wave of energy, even decades after being a student.Your clean calendar fills up fast with rehearsals, students, and commitments to everyone else.And before long there’s no room left for your own artistic projects.Yes, there’s the excitement of a new season, with that energizing sense of possibility.But underneath it, a familiar worry: that once again, your most important work isn’t getting done.Here’s what I’ve seen after 30 years of coaching music
[Fixed Video] Musicians: Stop Judging. Start Receiving. (opens the original)
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Musicians: maybe you’ve experienced this, too.Most of what I learned in music school about practicing and performing was how to be a ruthless perfectionist. How to strive to control everything to avoid making mistakes. To judge every note: because if it’s not perfect, it’s not worthy. And if that’s the case, then I’m not worthy.Nobody ever taught me the value of doing the opposite. To experiment with what happens when you stop monitoring and start receiving. No one ever said that eventually, tha
She Wanted More Gigs. She Got That, Plus Something Neither of Us Saw Coming. (opens the original)
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My client (let’s call her Ellen) came to me to get more bookings. So we worked on her bio, website, pitches—the usual. And she got bookings.She also got something she hadn’t expected.Because of the process we used, Ellen walked away with more than she bargained for — a new confidence and sense of her own worth, and an authority in how she showed up professionally and socially, that had nothing to do with better copywriting.The materials helped. Sure.But the real change happened off the page. And
Cracking the Code to Better Concert Programming (opens the original)
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I’ve written elsewhere about concert programming, but I keep running into the same thing: musicians who know how to program a concert of pieces they love, but don’t yet see how that might be different from building a program that a presenter wants to book and an audience is curious enough to show up for.Here’s the part people don’t like to hear: your music will not speak for itself. This means that how you program, and especially how you describe what you’re offering, matters. Audience members y
Is Your Teaching Bio Sabotaging Your Efforts to Attract the Students You'd Love to Teach? (opens the original)
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Most musicians write their teaching bios the way they’d write a résumé: sighting their degrees, performance credits, schools where they’ve taught.That boring list of credentials doesn’t tell a prospective student what they’d most like to know. And it doesn’t help you recruit the students you’d most like to teach.Thanks for reading Tools for Musicians! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<form class="subscription-wi
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