The Best Music Podcast Best Music Coach

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Welcome to the Best Music Podcast. My name is Dan the Music Man. I have been doing a combination of playing, performing, recording, and teaching music professionally for the past 10 years. I am starting this podcast to answer a single question: What drives, and sustains top musician’s creativity and their ability to perform at the highest level, and how did they get there? Here, on the Best Music Podcast, you will hear from musicians and music industry insiders. Get key insights, hacks, and tips to take your music, and your creativity to the next level from the pros who know. The podcast is divided into two parts. First, we will meet the featured guest for the episode, find out about their career, projects, and areas of expertise. Second, we will take a deep dive behind the scenes and break down what works to keep our guest creative, stay in performance shape, and how they deal with different problems most musicians experience at some point in their careers. Subscribe and follow the Best Music Podcast…

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The Best Music Podcast #1 | Gregg Hollister | Rock Follies, Living a Creative Lifestyle, Music is its Own Reward
Gregg Hollister Gregg's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vocalbassdudeGman
Gregg Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGAYN6KRh4
The Brian Druxx Project: http://briandruxproject.com/
Gregg has toured recorded or performed with Al Kooper, Richie Havens, Ron Dante, Tommy James, The Rockspurs, Paul Schaefer, Max Weinberg, Bernard Purdie, Phoebe Snow, Ian Hunter, Tico Torres, Joey D, Vicki Sue Robinson, Anthem, Masayoshi Takanaka, Terry Silverlight, Ben E. King, Cory Daye, Tom Verlaine, Paul Schaefer, and Richard Lloyd to name a few.
Commercial work includes jingles such as Sony, Kodak, Budweiser, Lifesavers, Mars Candy, Club Med, Yamaha Motorcycles, GM, Ciba Geigy, Schering Plough, and Hertz.
TV and film work includes work for PBS the made for TV CBS documentary Julissas Hands (the craigslist killer) movie work such as the Bad Lieutenant and the Driller Killer with Joe Delia/Abel Ferrar and countless musical projects supplying background vocals including Austin Powers movie trailers and Grownups with John Stamos. Gregg can currently be seen and heard playing with Hollister & Friends and The Brian Drux Project.
0:00 Intro
1:46 Warm-Up Questions
4:47 How Gregg Got Into Music
8:55 Rock Follies 1 & The Value of Owning Your Master Recordings
11:50 Perfume Commercials and Bad Contracts
12:55 How Music Publishing Works, How the Money is Divided
16:30 Rock Follies 2 & Managers Stealing from the Band, Getting Robbed
22:41 Joe Delia and the Rockspurs
24:31 Rock Follies 2.5 and 3
26:30 The 80s and Chaka Khan
31:23 The Darryl Canada Project & Rock Follies 4 & What is a Showcase?
34:22 Getting Smart, ASCAP
36:17 What is an Artist Showcase?
38:20 Rock Follies 5
41:56 Phoebe Snow and Al Kooper
45:00 What is a Spec Deal?
47:00 Shopping the Record - Yamaha
51:00 Ben E. King & Background Singer Session Work
52:07 Masayoshi Takanaka
56:00 How Gregg Makes Jingles & Brushing Philip Glass
1:01:30 Music is a Part of Me
1:02:15 Jimmy Leahey, The Brian Druxx Project, Hollister and Friends
1:14:35 Enter Drew Nagal
1:16:14 Max Weinberg Jukebox
1:19:22 Greatest Hits
1:24:20 Lifestyle: Sleep
1:31:54 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation
1:33:28 How Trans Siberian Orchestra Discovered Ashley Hollister
1:34:54 Paying Your Dues Past vs. Present
1:37:03 Creativity is a Lifestyle
1:40:22 Creativity: The Great Outdoors
1:41:42 Practice: How Many Hours a Day?
1:43:37 Practice: How much Time is Effective?
1:48:05 Performance: Performance Anxiety
1:50:48 Burn out
Logo, Intro Video, and Branding: Arron Leishman
Audio and Video: Zach Ramey zacherylramey@gmail.com
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The Best Music Podcast #2 | Rez Abbasi - Guitar | Creating New Music and Maintaining a Calm Mind
Voted #1 Rising-Star Guitarist in the 2013 DownBeat Critics Poll and subsequently placed in the “Top-Ten Guitarists” alongside luminaries Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny, guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is one of the most original voices on the current scene. Making New York home for the past 25 years, Abbasi is considered by many to be one of the foremost modern jazz guitar players the world over. He has performed and recorded with many jazz greats including, Grammy winner Ruth Brown, Peter Erskine, Kenny Werner, Barre Phillips, Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, Billy Hart, Gary Thomas, Dave Douglas, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Mike Clark, Tim Hagans, John Beasly, Ronu Majumdar, Kadri Gopalnath, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Vijay Iyer, Marilyn Crispell, Greg Osby, Howard Levy and a host of others.
The renowned jazz critic, Bill Milkowski says “Abbasi’s unpredictable phrasing and accomplished writing are what sets him apart from hordes of other technically adept guitarists”.
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0:00 Intro
3:03 Creating New Music, Projects, and Ideas
10:12 Drop Tunings
11:45 Sitar Guitar
12:30 Bazaar (2007)
14:17 Soloing with Rhythm, Polyrhythms, and Syncopation
18:57 Metric Modulations in Compositions
22:03 How Rez Uses Power Chords in Jazz
25:04 Django Shift (2020)
33:48 How to Record a Jazz Record in the Modern Age
38:05 Oasis (2020)
43:56 How to Play Music over a Silent Film
48:52 What is Next for Rez?
52:00 Guitar Sound Shaping Play
53:55 Lifestyle, Practice, Performance, and Creativity
54:06 Lifestyle: Sleep
56:06 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation
1:00:04 Letting Go vs. Ego
1:02:11 Lifestyle: Finding the Right Partner for Musicians
1:06:51 Practice: What Comes Easy for You?
1:09:44 Practice: What was Hard for You?
1:14:13 Practice: What Time of Day is Best?
1:18:48 Practice: How Many Hours a Day?
1:23:06 Practice: How to Deal with and Mitigate Burn Out: Forced Rest Days
1:28:04 "I Don't Want to Think of Myself as a Professional Musician"
1:31:18 How Rez Deals with Performance Anxiety
Logo, Intro Video, and Branding: Arron Leishman
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Link to Drones that we talked about in the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2KgGCn5A3pZQ3m2ADXdrgDgfnftGsjXs
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The Best Music Podcast #3 | Peter Lin - Trombone | Connecting and Creating Communities with Music, Practicing with Drones
Peter's Music: https://peterlin.bandcamp.com/releases
Peter's Company: https://www.yardbirdent.com/
Peter's Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0B6bmstONI06GXeABIi8G
Taiwanese-American trombonist Peter Lin is a young and creative musician active on the New Jersey and New York scene. A graduate of the esteemed jazz programs of William Paterson University (undergraduate) and Rutgers University (graduate), Peter studied with jazz trombone legends such as Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig, Robin Eubanks, Steve Davis, & Frank Lacy. He has performed with many notable artists including Slide Hampton, Winard Harper, Charli Persip, Valerie Ponomarev, JD Allen, & Radam Schwartz. Peter is also an established educator, holding a prestigious faculty position at Melissa Walker & Christian McBride’s non-profit organization, Jazz House Kids. His first record, With Respect, featured arrangements of classic Chinese and Taiwanese songs, which peaked at #3 on the NACC Charts and #4 on the RMR Charts. His second album, New Age Old Ways, features eight of his original compositions along with an original comic book with illustrations by Kelly Lin which placed #2 on the RMR Charts.
0:00 Intro
2:16 Warm-up Questions
7:00 With Respect (2018)
17:00 How Long it Takes to Write an Album
19:12 Live vs Studio Personel, Sitting In, Jam Sessions
24:00 Aural Traditions, Plunger Playing, and Mutes
32:00 Tedesco Studios
33:09 New Age Old Ways (2020)
39:04 Being Open and Honest - JD Allen Helps Create the Space for Creativity
42:16 No Chordal Instruments, Ornette Coleman, Avant Guard
46:37 Creating Music from Images and Finding a Voice
48:42 Playing Jazz Clubs
50:24 Yardbird Entertainment
53:45 How to Book Jazz Performances
58:09 How Yardbird Pivoted - Covid, Jazz House Kids
1:05:27 Live Jazz in the time of Covid, Alex Parchment
1:09:10 Bill Saxton
1:15:10 Jazz Lovers and Supporters
1:21:36 Creating a Jazz Community Together
1:25:16 Lifestyle: Sleep and Routine
1:30:56 Lifestyle: Diet and Exercise, Seperation of Work and Life
1:38:56 Lifestyle: Support Systems
1:44:01 Practice: What Comes Easy Understanding Cultures
1:46:35 Practice: What Takes Work: Pitch and Using Drones
1:52:40 Practice: Time of Day and Quantity
1:55:55 Burn Out
2:01:02 Performance Anxiety
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The Best Music Podcast #4 | Taylor Goodson — Composition, Timpani | Composing for Dungeons & Dragons and Marching Band
Taylor's Website: https://www.tg-sounds.com/
Taylor's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPszJhABNrr83Aoy3PSphdg
Taylor's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/taylor-arthur-goodson
Taylor Goodson is active as a freelance percussionist in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, participating in performance with members of the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Opera, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at many notable venues in both New York and New Jersey. He is the principal tympanist of both the Montclair Orchestra and the FEA Symphony and he performs regularly with a multitude of ensembles, including the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra and the New Jersey Festival Orchestra. He is also active as a member of the New York Percussion Group, a New York City-based percussion ensemble, and Festival Percussion, an educational percussion quartet in the New York/New Jersey area. As a soloist, he has appeared on multiple occasions with performances of works such as William Kraft's "Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra," Eric Ewazen's "Concerto for Marimba," and Béla Bartok's "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion." As an active composer as well, Mr. Goodson has written material for a wide variety of mediums. His music for the concert stage ranges from solo instrumental pieces to large symphonic works where his voice is described as “cinematic” and “emotional.” He was selected as a winner of the 2010 Dallas Wind Symphony Fanfare Competition and has received a multitude of commissions for a large variety of ensembles. Taylor has also written arrangements for notable soloists and conductors around the globe and has been published by Row-Loff Productions for some of his work for percussion. Since 2014, Mr. Goodson has also been writing original shows for competitive marching bands in northern New Jersey. Two of his original scores have received national titles ( Equilibrium, 2015 and Jamais Vu, 2019 ) and many others have had extensive success on the state and local levels. He continues to compose new and engaging works for the marching arts each year and strives to write music that is both engaging and educational. Taylor also has experience with other media as his music is featured in podcasts, video games, television, and film. His work in the realm of digital composition in combination with live recording have won him much critical acclaim, many of these projects having been featured on two of his albums "Inspirations: Volume I" (2014) and "Inspirations: Volume II" (2015), both of which are available through major digital music retailers. Mr. Goodson is a member of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM, Local 802) and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
0:00 Intro
2:53 Warm-Up Questions
9:37 Timpani - What they are
12:57 Timpani - When and how they get used and history 1
18:05 Timpani - Making your own mallets and sticks
22:49 Timpani - When and how they get used and history 2
25:52 Auditioning for ensembles
33:24 How to maintain high-quality performances
40:31 Composing - Finding your voice
47:26 Composing - Winning national marching band titles
52:08 Composing - Dungeons & Dragons
54:09 Composing - Dungeons & Dragons: Creating a world through music
58:24 Lifestyle: Sleep
1:00:58 Lifestyle: Diet
1:02:14 Lifestyle: Mindfulness
1:02:56 Lifestyle: Exercise
1:03:51 Lifestyle: Support & scheduling
1:06:20 Practice: What is easy?
1:06:20 Practice: What is easy?
1:06:20 Practice: Serving the music (Dan is going to eat his words in the next episode)
1:12:36 Practice: What is hard?
1:20:13 Practice: Duration of time
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The Best Music Podcast #5 | Alex Parchment — Trumpet | #1 on Billboard Smooth Jazz Vibin' In Time
Alex's social media handle on all platforms: @mrparchment
Alex has had the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Blues Alley with jazz luminaries Patti Austin, Christian McBride, David Sanborn, Chick Corea, and Marion Meadows. In 2015, he was selected for the world-renowned Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at the Kennedy Center. He now performs as a solo artist while also leading the Alex Parchment Quintet, a traditional jazz ensemble and AP.Chemistry, a musical experiment fusing soul, funk, hip hop, R&B and jazz to form a unique and energetic sound. In April 2020, Alex released his debut album entitled Burnin’ Up, which yielded two placements on the Smooth Jazz Billboard’s Top 30 Chart (“Vibin’ In Time” rising to #1, and “It’s Real” rising to #11).  
His new single “When It’s Hot” is out now on all major streaming platforms.
0:00 Intro
1:33 Warm-up questions
2:29 How Billboard works
4:12 Alex #1 song: How it happened
11:18 Alex's mission
13:54 Teamwork: The case for record labels
16:40 Roots and research before the studio
19:48 Album: What was your inspiration?
21:25 Smooth Jazz vs Traditional Jazz
24:51 How to make the trumpet sing
26:50 How Alex writes a melody: singing
33:15 Using synthesizers in smooth jazz
35:47 Using effects on trumpet
38:30 Alex's rhythmic choices
45:08 Don't let the culture of music school ruin music
48:00 When It's Hot: New Single
51:24 How to convey emotion in instrumental music
53:43 Lifestyle: Sleep
57:52 Lifestyle: Mindfulness & meditation
59:10 Why Alex likes 80 BPM
1:00:37 Lifestyle: Exercise
1:01:06 Lifestyle: Support system
1:06:07 Practice: Time of day and long tones
1:08:45 Practice: How many hours a day and days a week
1:12:50 Practice: Max hours
1:14:51 Classical vs Jazz trumpet
1:17:14 Practice: What Alex practices: Maintaining technical freedom to serve artistic choices
1:27:34 Practice: Injury
1:32:10 Creativity: Steps to stay creative
1:34:55 Creativity: Time of day
1:35:46 Creativity: Burn out
1:37:54 Performance: Performance anxiety
1:40:09 Alex's closing words: Wholistic musicianship
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