What drives you?
Why do you do what you do? What adds juice to your life? Someone recently asked me what drives me? When I was a child I was told by my grandfather that you should never do anything because of the money so subsequently financial reward has never been a big part of why I get […]
Being an SF MusicTech Virgin
I’ve been wanting to go to SF MusicTech Summit ever since I first heard about it. Brian Zisk, Todd Tate and the team SF MusicTech do a great job of bringing together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with […]
How to Interpret Songs
Watching last nights Kennedy Center Honors Awards it was noticeable how few singers can really embody and interpret a song. Too many of them seem to just belt out the tune without really expressing the sentiment or nuances of the lyrics. Driving to work this morning Beth Nielsen Chapman came on the radio and both […]
Lessons from the Music Industry
My good friend Richard Curran at the British School in Tokyo asked me to film a video about life in the music industry for his class of students. I wanted to try and get across to them the breadth of careers in this industry while at the same time having them focus on skills and […]
A Cool Job for a Drummer
For a drummer and technology geek it’s probably one of the coolest jobs you can have. Assemble a dream team of the world’s greatest drummers and percussionist and launch an innovative online drum academy. I work at ArtistWorks, the award-winning company behind the forthcoming ArtistWorks Drum Academy, Billy Cobham School of Drums, Thomas Lang School […]