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But You're a Pro! You Don't Have to Practice...Do You?

 

Sometimes, people have the assumptions that I don’t have to practice. After all I’ve been playing didgeridoo for almost 21 years and I’ve got technique down. 

So do I REALLY practice?

Yes…. Absolutely….Here’s why.

I may have technique down and…

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Mar 17, 2026

Letting Musicianship Blossom: A Musician's Journey

 

This morning during breakfast, I was listening to Youtuber and musician, Mike Enjo talk about music and mental health in his recently released video on his Youtube channel Creative Sauce. Mike covers some very important issues regarding music making…

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Jan 18, 2025

Artist's Life: Dealing with the messy bits

 

 

Before we dive in I just want to say thank you for reading this and for letting me show you the messy bits of being an artist. So often we only see the curated photos, videos and posts that make…

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Dec 7, 2024

Beneath the Moon: Six Weeks Later

Beneath the Moon has been out in the world now for about six weeks. If you don’t know yet, Beneath the Moon is my newest song that I released this past December. It’s been a song that has be very…

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Jan 12, 2024

Songs Like This Are Why I Make Music

So much music is pouring out of me right now! Wow! I guess it’s this time of year where the busyness of summer has wound down and the introspection of fall is starting to settle in. This seems to happen…

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Sep 28, 2023

The Struggle to Stay Inspired In the Face of the Content Machine

 

For the past three years now, I've been struggling with maintaining a balance between being attentive to practical details of getting music out there - promoting and marketing and all the other business-y details - and making art, if I…

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May 6, 2023

Time to Talk About AI - A Super Cool Tool or Will It Take Over?

 

Sooooo, what goes through your mind when you hear about AI? Any of you confused? Scared? Excited over this seemingly sudden appearance of AI? Or can you see the possibilities of a tool that can help humanity in ways we…

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Apr 12, 2023

Writing Music for a Changing World

 

As  I write this, it’s little more than a week until the release of two new single songs I wrote for piano. I have so much going through my head that I want to say about these two pieces that…

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Mar 16, 2023

Are You Ready to Play?

 

Author’s Disclaimer: This is an article written completely from stream-of-consciousness with no editing so it may seem a bit grammatically rough and redundant in places. I wanted to leave it this way because it’s more sincere and closest to how…

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Apr 3, 2022

Autumn Continued: A New Song and Creative Life

Hello Everyone!

Winter is on its way. It’s been storming, raining, windy and snowing like mad in the mountains for the past two days. It all has made the intense heat and dryness of this past summer a mere memory…

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Dec 12, 2021

Things Are Evolving: Musical Project In the Making

Tracks for Sandstorm

 

It can go without saying that the most challenging part of composing for didgeridoo is coming up with consistently interesting music for the listener who is not as familiar with this ancient instrument. This is one reason…

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Nov 21, 2021

New Single Release and Thoughts at 12:36am

This is me at 12:36am. It’s getting to be late at night and I really should call it a day but I just released the Sandstorm video into the world tonight and I just wanted to say something about it…

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Nov 13, 2021

Lessons In Repurposing Seeds To Serve A Dream

My musical journey started with an instrument similar to what you see in the photo above. This is a Magnus table top chord organ that was made in the 60's and early 70's primarily for kids. If it hadn't been…

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Oct 22, 2021

One of My Best Albums: "Ta-ka Ta-ka" Now on Youtube

I released Ta-ka Ta-ka after a difficult time in my life with didgeridoo. At the time, I had been playing didgeridoo for 11 years and I had hit a plateau. I watched other players excel at technique to the point…

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Mar 18, 2021

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