18/05/2022
Road Rules: The Secret Sauce For Amplifying Your Audience
The Secret Sauce For Amplifying Your Audience: When I was 16 all I wanted in the world was to be Jaco Pastorius. I bought ...
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Deep Thinking: Using The Pentatonic Scales
The last couple of Deep Thinking columns that featured one of Jaco Pastorius’ best pieces (IMHO) have maybe made the learning ...
READ MORE >09/03/2022
Road Rules: Creative Ways For Musicians To Use NFTs
Lately it seems, the whole world is abuzz talking about NFTs and how they are going to change the world for artists across ...
READ MORE >16/02/2022
Finding Your Voice: The Case For Creative High-performance Psychology
The case for creative high-performance psychology. In the merry Music Month of May 2021, Brave Caitlin Smith’s Imaginary ...
READ MORE >02/02/2022
Deep Thinking: Weather Report’s Teen Town (Part 2)
Admittedly it's been a while now, but in the last NZM issue we tackled one of Jaco Pastorius’ compositions for Weather ...
READ MORE >28/07/2021
Finding Your Voice: The Whole Body
As a singer our body is our instrument. We must be entirely sovereign over how we take care of our inner landscape. If the ...
READ MORE >10/06/2021
Soundcloud – How To Share Your Music Discretely
There are a number of reasons why you might want to make some of your new music discretely available online – peer feedback, ...
READ MORE >01/06/2021
Road Rules: How To Attract Your (First 1000) True Fans
Growing your audience as a musician is all about attracting the right people to you, sharing your story to engage them, and ...
READ MORE >04/05/2021
Building Blocks: Scheduling Creativity
Over the years my Building Blocks contributions to New Zealand Musician have focused mainly on sharing band management tips ...
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