Episodes
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Dylan Caligiuri - Lean Into the Pain
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Dylan Caligiuri talks about discipline, music education, emotional intelligence, human motivational systems, and many more essential concepts for musicians at every stage of their career.
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Michael Seaman - Finding Balance
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Michael Seaman is an LA-based pianist, composer, and music director attracting the attention of audiences and musicians alike for his passionate and fresh take on the jazz and pop traditions. His work has been featured in Netflix’s new animated movie The Monkey King, The South Dakota Symphony’s 2023 concert series, HBO’s Perry Mason, Engelbert Humperdinck’s 2021 Reflections international tour, and in his own 12-piece jazz big band The Fresh Rhythm with Luke Carlsen.
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Festina Lente
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Sunday Aug 13, 2023
Jason and Dave discuss principles for achieving longevity in your career.
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
What’s YOUR Musician Mindset?
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Sunday Aug 06, 2023
Dave and Jason are back after a hiatus to discuss the qualities of professionalism, attitude, and mindset.
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Adam Gust - Finding Your Flow
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Friday Jul 24, 2020
Adam Gust was raised in the cold of Minnesota, studied music in the heat of the University of North Texas, and has served a diverse full-time freelance music career of world touring and session work in just right Los Angeles since 2000. After a humbling decade of recovery from a career-threatening injury, Adam acquired a unique expertise, empathy, and voice toward evolving learning environments in drum education and in life.Adam's journey of re-learning how to practice has helped him to stumble upon effective student based progressing learning strategies. Adam is excited to share his story of trauma from 'black to beyond' as he explains how he implements new academic ideas and technologies while re-assessing traditional forms of drum instruction.Therapy and education are blood relatives, and the global pandemic is fertile ground to promote meaningful conversations about the application of mental health treatments to education and all disciplines of development. Awareness of Trauma-Informed modalities will be a key component in our healing from this crisis, both for ourselves and for those we love.
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Quarantine Special - Win Tomorrow by Winning Today
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
In this 6 feet apart episode, Dave and Jason discuss their handling of the Covid-19 lifestyle adjustments, and ways musicians can ensure they are setting themselves up for the career recovery period coming up soon.
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Vanessa Bryan - Giving your all on every gig
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Our guest today is Vanessa Bryan, a singer, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur.
Vanessa has been a featured BG singer for acts such as Idina Menzel, Gwen Stefani and most recently The Killers.
She is the office gal vocal coach and arranger for Kidz Bop and owns Music Lessons LA, a music school, recording studio and vocal lessons.
Friday Nov 08, 2019
Casey Baer: Experiences of an Up-and-Coming Singer/Songwriter
Friday Nov 08, 2019
Friday Nov 08, 2019
Originating from Los Angeles, Casey Baer is a nineteen-year-old pop recording artist charting her own course with honest lyrics and powerful vocals. A year in the making, Casey’s first single, “Greatest Mistake,” was a first look of what’s to come in the young artist’s career. Produced and co-written by Grammy-nominated producer, Dru Decaro, ‘Greatest Mistake’ serves as her first in many unapologetic takes on her formative years. Her latest single, “Hold On,” brings a summertime feel to her growing portfolio of teenage pop anthems. The song caught the music industry’s attention and earned her an official remix by the EDM producer duo, twoDB.
Through her music and engaging content, Casey has reached 250,000 music streams and grown her audience to over 50,000 across platforms in just under one year. She has worked with brands such as Daniel Wellington, Skullcandy, Blue Microphone, Crocs, and Revolve. She has also received media coverage from KTLA, Tiger Beat, Trending All Day, Music Insider, Action Magazine, Pop Culturalist, Famous Birthdays, and several others.
Casey is often found performing her music at venues across Los Angeles and at conventions such as NY Music Expo and Playlist Live.
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Michael Ward - The value of finding common interests with musicians besides music
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Our guest today is Michael Ward.
Michale is an accomplished recording artist, guitarist and professional musician who has toured the world with groups such as Ben Harper and the innocent criminals, The Wall Flowers and was co-founder of the group, School of Fish. Michael’s guitar work can be heard on records by John Hiatt and the Grammy award winning single, One Headlight by the Wallflowers.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to overcome not getting a great gig
- How to be social with your band and why it's important
- How great opportunities come from finding common interests with musicians besides music
Monday Oct 21, 2019
25th Episode Special
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
We can rent a car!
Our 25th show, thanks so much for the support! In this episode Jason and Dave discuss the common lessons the guests have shared over the course of 25 episodes. Some really great content here, enjoy!
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