Author: Jonathan Harnum

Hi, I'm Jon Harnum, author, publisher, teacher, musician, and scholar. If you'd like to learn more about music or how to publish books, come check out my web sites and online courses. Lots of freebies so you can try before you buy. See you online!

Improve with Improv: Card Game to Facilitate Musical Creativity

In The Practice of Practice is a chapter that covers how world-class musicians (yes, even classical musicians) use improvisation to improve their playing. You should do it, too. Trouble with improvising or composing? Here’s a tool for you: GET IT ON AMAZON HERE

If You Practice…

Andrew Hitz is a former Boston Brass tuba-ist. His blog is worth subscribing to. This quote is from Doug Yeo, the former bass trombonist for the Boston Symphony. Thing is, it works for ANY music and any musician. Great advice. If you practice, you get better. If you get better, you play with better players….

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Loopy Masters: Get Better Using Loops

Some of the best practice I’ve ever had, and some of the most fun, has come from using loops. Here are two example: Joe St. George of Owleater kills it on percussion:   Bonus points for Leah’s keyboard percussion and the Paul McCartney-style bass. The BOSS loop station (one pedal, two pedals, three pedals) is…

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Songwriter Resources

In The Practice of Practice, Erin McKeown talks about how she used songwriting as her practice. Not only did songwriting with ap 4-track recorder give her some serious feedback, resulting in serious chops, her process resulted in some excellent albums, too. There are lots of resources online to learn songwriting. Here’s one:

The Drum Doctor

There are so many careers in music, many more than “just” performing, and they all take practice of one kind or another. Here’s one music career that sounds fascinating.