20 Ways to Keep Evolving as a Musician

I came across an excellent blog post over AudioTuts today. Adrian Try lists twenty tips for keeping up your chops as a musician. On the surface, these tips seem pretty simple and obvious, but when you read through his descriptions of each tip you start to think about your playing and your career on a deeper level (at least that’s what I was thinking as I read it!).

As songwriters, we often put practicing our instrument technique on the back burner to spend our time writing and composing new songs. That writer’s bug may never go away, but it’s important to take some time to hone your chops. Your songs will certainly benefit, not to mention you will surely put on much tighter performances.

Here’s a quote from the article:

If your music playing becomes erratic and irregular, your technique suffers and you become rusty. For some people, it is a condition they never recover from, and being a musician becomes a thing of the past. For others it is just a temporary condition in the ups and downs of life. Some musicians have the discipline and commitment to never suffer from this.

Check out the article here. I also highly recommend AudioTuts, which always serves up a healthy dose of tutorials and blog posts about music and audio production.

Related posts:

1. Evolving the Sound vs. Sticking to the Formula
2. Collaboration Tips for Successful Bands
3. 12 Ways to Overcome Lyricist’s Writers Block

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