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Last Update: Wed Jun 4 01:19:06 2008

+ “I Can Do That” Syndrome + You're listening to a piece of music and it sounds so simple and easy that you say to yourself, "I can do that." But can you really? ...

+ How To Rescue Your Time And Get Your Life Back + Rescue time is an application that has become very important to my weekly GTD review. It's helping me put some metrics to my writing ...

+ 1,000-Hour/5,000-Hour Model For Songwriting Success + The concept is this: To be a good, competent songwriter, it will take 1,000 hours of practice. If you want to be a great songwriter, ...

+ Graham English Talks Episode 15 + In this episode I share my experience as a victim of fraud, my current Strength for Life Reboot, a couple of new projects, and I ...

+ One Of These Nights + This song is about planning an exciting future with a fine ...

+ Tempered Enthusiasm For 1,000 True Fans + Kevin Kelly is back again with some feedback on his article, 1,000 True Fans, by musician Robert Rich. Read ...

+ You Got What You Wanted From Me + A funky blues about a devious ...

+ GTD: Integrating Remind, iCal, GCal, Quicksilver + A Unix program called Remind is one of the greatest tools for keeping your goals and projects on track. Where calendars like iCal and ...

+ What Are You Waiting For? + This is a song about second ...

+ Midnight In This Lonely City + This is a song about showing ...

+ Kitty Hawk + This song was inspired by Dance Punk artists like LCD Soundsystem and !!! and by an episode of WNYC's Radio Lab on the Wright ...

+ 1,000 True Fans And The Long Tail + Kevin Kelly writes that the long tail is a blessing for aggregators (Amazon, Netflix) and consumers. But not so for creators. Read ...

+ The Neuroscience Of Jazz Improvisation + Mind Hacks pointed me to an interesting study by science journal PLoS One on the cognitive neuroscience of ...

+ Five Auditory Illusions + I've talked about the Shepard Tone before but NewScientist has just posted Five great auditory ...

+ The Top 10 Music Social Networks + I just discovered a new music marketing blog (hat tip to Gerd Leonhard). The post that caught my immediate attention was The Top 10 ...

+ Gerd Leonhard’s Music2.0 Book Just Released + Gerd Leonhard, co-author of The Future of Music, just released his new book, Music2.0. Read ...

+ It’s February Album Writing Month! + It's the 5th annual February Album Writing Month. The challenge? Write an entire album in just 29 days. Read ...

+ NAMM 2008 + I snuck out of Boston for a few days and infiltrated the NAMM show as a buyer for Denver School of Music. The highlight was meeting ...

+ Most Inspiring 30 Minutes I’ve Invested In A Long Time + With subtle accompaniment by longtime friend Herbie Hancock, and a slide show that has opened the minds (and pocketbooks) of CEOs ...

+ Seth Godin Draws Some Lessons From The Sinking Music Industry + Seth Godin dishes 14 tips to musicians on the cusp between old and new media. Read ...

+ Cool And Recent Podcasts From Around The Web + Here's some recent podcasts from around the web that I've been inspired by musically. Read ...

+ Samurai Songwriting Special Bundle Offer + Make 2008 the year you master songwriting like a Samurai masters his sword! Download Samurai Songwriting issues 1 and 2 PLUS the John ...

+ Average Words Per Song And The 80/20 Rule + In preparation for my 2008 song-a-week project, I wanted some numbers to give me an idea of how much writing I would need to do. Using ...

+ Graham English Talks Episode 14 + A short message to you and a Christmas gift by the late Oscar ...

+ Oscar Peterson Is Dead + How sad to read that Oscar Peterson is dead on Christmas Eve. He was ...

+ The Best Of Graham English 2007 + 2007 was the year of social networking. Twitter occupied most of time which led to much less blogging. But 2007 was not without its ...

+ Rewriting Song Titles For Practice And Inspiration + Here's an exercise I love to do when I need inspiration for song titles. If nothing's coming naturally, this trick can really get the [...] I come up with, I find that within a day or two, one of my ideas will trigger something completely different, usable, and inspiring.

+ Another Great Wired Piece With David Byrne On The Music Business + Along the same lines as the Thom Yorke interview, David Byrne lays out the "Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and ...

+ Gmin 130bpm Ultrabeat 12-19-07 + This was an exercise in using Ultrabeat. Along with a Nu School Breaks Kit is a Grind Bass and Funk ...

+ Great Wired Article On Music With David Byrne And Thom Yorke + Wired has put together an excellent multi-media article about Radiohead's recent experiment and the music business in ...