Category Archives: Music

Jimmy Chamberlin rambles about the importance of creative identity.

I saw this video the other day while searching for drum solos. It’s sort of long and rambly, but he addresses some points in here that I think are important for planners and anyone in general who does creative things.

Technique doesn’t equal interesting—Knowing the technical aspects of creativity are not a means to an end, [...]

Are you a programmer, or the programmed?

Really interesting thoughts on the importance of computer literacy, and seems to support Noah’s assertion (via edutopia) that coding is the new literacy.
As an aside, this feels a lot like what’s happening to music as some hip-hop has redefined the musician as someone who combines complex molecules of existing music rather than knowing how to make [...]

Drums are awesome.

So I made this.

Looking for music recommendations

Krissie and I are driving from California to Virginia next week and are looking for some good driving music recommendations. We have four solid days to fill with music. What albums would you bring on your roadtrip?

New Years Resolutions (in beta)

I’ve never really made new years resolutions before. Partly because they are doomed to fail for most people, but mostly because I annually forget think about them until people start telling me about the fantastic things they are going to (not) do next year as the ball drops.
This year is different. There are a number [...]

Marketing music in a crazy, mixed-up, digital world.

After spending the past few years developing marketing strategy, I’ve recently gotten back into my original passion: making music. And ironically, being in a band again has reminded me of how I became interested in marketing strategy in the first place.
Marketing a band has always been a difficult thing. From thinking of a name that’s [...]

Marketing has turned into Jazz

So I’ve been neglecting the blog for a little while (which increased my subscriber numbers dramatically for some reason), but it’s not my fault. Work has been crazy. Or at least it was until a couple of weeks ago. Which made me wonder what ever happened to the good old days of summer hours. I [...]

Wednesday

Telephono

…this one goes to 11