Los Angeles based musician, new baby daddy, hustling to make it happen.
Admiral William H. McRaven shares 10 lessons he’s learned during his 36 years as a Navy SEAL. His commencement speech at The University of Texas at Austin seems particularly apropos while I’m out in Rockford for Spring Training with the Phantom Regiment. If you enjoy TED talks, watch the video below. One of my favorite parts … More “If you want to change the world, don’t ever, ever ring the bell.”
FUGATO Subject _______ Answer _______ Subject _______ … More What’s a fugue?
“Lifehack” is phrase that has worked its way into popular culture vocabulary, defined on their website as “a phrase that describes any advice, resource, tip or trick that will help you get things done more efficiently and effectively.” There’s a reason why people enjoy reading these short, descriptive tips. Simply put, they’re useful. Often times, teachers, … More Teach something useful
Professor Kristy Morell was kind enough to invite me to play drumset for a reading session with the USC Thornton Horn Ensemble. Undergraduate and Graduate students arrange various pop tunes for French Horn choir, and today we read through everyone’s arrangements. What a great way to structure an activity that develops creative agency and a useful, … More Be confident that you can create
Last semester, I participated in a collaborative arts class entitled Sound Art. By combining found objects with various areas of expertise, artists made instruments, composers wrote music, and we put on a semester concert. I fulfilled a longtime dream of making an udu drum.
Clair Omar Musser was a famous percussionist known for composing etudes for his students, among many other things. He customized etudes that would work a particular technique or concept. More recently, my good friend, Anne Marie Cherry, shared a story of how one semester, the french horn studio teacher had everyone choose their biggest weakness, … More Help students create
“Do the right thing.” Somewhere along the way, this was inculcated into my conscious streams of thought. My parents, Sesame Street, Boy Scout – probably all of the above and many more, were instances where an impressionable child learned to differentiate between right and wrong. By no means would I consider myself altruistic, but I … More Ethics is a Process
I am a big fan of stand-up comedy. Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is an entire series by Jerry Seinfeld that features funny people being funny together, and it is mesmerizing. As if someone making you laugh isn’t funny enough, watching someone making another “funny” person laugh is hilarious. I also enjoy the flip side, watching … More Make them laugh, help them learn
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