Shuttered – Photos In Isolation and Connection
When words don’t come, a picture is worth a thousand of them anyway.
Know This – an #improv #poem
“Know This” – a spontaneous (improvised) poem by Stan Stewart, strangely inspired by COVID-19 and the practice of physical distancing.
Compose Yourself – Social Connecting and Physical Distancing
Human beings need social connections in times like these.
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5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
What will it take to amp up your keyboard rig? Try these five tips to get ready for your gigging.
Music Losses: The Elephant In The #COVID19 Room
I don’t know if I’ll leave this post here. It’s difficult to predict if the music losses will be short or long term. But it became obvious that anything I could write about would be avoiding the most prevalent and obvious subject: coronavirus or COVID-19. Don’t Work: Stay Safe Music losses may not be the
Do Your Headphones Hurt Your Ears When Practicing Piano? Learn How to Play Pain-Free
When you are practicing the piano, you might want to use headphones to keep your playing private. There are lots of reasons for wanting to avoid your practice being audible to others, and headphones are the best way to do this. However, wearing headphones while playing piano can start to hurt your ears after a
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Creating Music: What Twitter Teaches Us About Songwriting
Inspiration often comes from surprising places. Not surprisingly, some may say that Twitter and music-making don’t mix. So, it’s quite true that I never expected social networks to be a source of such strange inspiration, but there you go: since social networks are a reflection of human interaction in some form or another, they’re filled
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3 Ways FaceBook Can Kill Your Creativity
There: I said it. Of course, in addition to FaceBook, it probably applies equally to Twitter, TikTok, and any other social network you can name. Even the social sharing sites like YouTube, Instagram, and others also could be equally as “deadly”. I think you’ll see what I mean. 1 – Social Networks Suck Social networks
Get Inspired: 10 Great Articles and 4 Great Tools
Get Inspired. That’s essentially what I said in my previous post. So I figured it’s only fair that I offer you a few suggestions to get that going. Get Outside for Inspiration If you ask me, the best way to get inspired is to go outdoors. In addition to being great for the imagination, taking
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Why Your Creative Project Never Turns Out the Way You Plan
This is not what I set out to do. No matter how much I wish for and plan for my creative projects to go a certain way, they always come out differently. Plan Creative Projects? Creativity and planning don’t always mix well. One is more of a right-brain activity and the other more left-brain. For
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