The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

If you enjoy the show, please leave me a Rating and Review in iTunes! Click Here to leave the review! Mateo Messina is a Grammy winning composer who writes music for film, television, and the symphony. His signature sound can be found on many of today's Oscar winning movies & independent film hits. Since the age of 23, Mateo has written, produced, and premiered 18 symphonies. Each premiere has been a benefit concert for families at Seattle Children's Hospital. To date, he and his team...

Aaron Mojica is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Mic Check (www.miccheck.co), an online recording equipment rental service that ships gear straight to your door. Prior to co-founding Mic Check Aaron also co-founded Prosource (www.prosourcehub.com), an audio, lighting, staging, and video rental and event production business based out of Chicago, and Creators League (www.creatorsleague.com), an online community for individuals with a profession in the creative industries. Prior to his...

If you enjoy the show, please leave me a Rating and Review in iTunes! Click Here to leave the review Charles “Chaz” Langley was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Virginia Beach, VA. Chaz began honing his talent for singing at the Governor’s Magnet School for the Arts in Virginia! Since then he has begun his journey into the world of Live Stage, Background vocals, demos, jingles and eventually performing all over the world. He’s had the opportunity to entertain in various styles of...

Christian Howes grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where he studied violin through the Suzuki method from the age of five, performed as a soloist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra at age 16, and later earned his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Ohio State University. During his teen years he began playing guitar and bass in rock, blues, and fusion bands. At age 20, he began playing violin in gospel church settings. These experiences ultimately led him to pursue a singular goal to become...

Dr. Noa Kageyama began his musical journey at the age of 2 when he was given his first violin - a Cracker-Jack box with a ruler taped to it. Midway through kindergarten, he gave his first performance with orchestra as a student of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki (founder of the Suzuki Method) in Matsumoto, Japan, and shortly thereafter, made his TV debut on WBNS-TV’s Front Page Saturday Night. His second year at Juilliard, he signed up for a course titled “Performance Enhancement for Musicians” taught...

Sam Matla is the founder of EDMProd, a blog and resource website that teaches electronic music producers how to make better music and overcome creative problems. He published The Producer's Guide to Workflow & Creativity after running EDMProd for two years, which has received an immense amount of positive feedback and helped musicians and producers across the world. Key Take Aways: it's "good enough"multitude of choices clear objectives Learn more about Sam Matla: EDMProd.com The...

Conceiving music that can range from acoustically intimate or ethnically eccentric to a grand, adventurous orchestral excursion able to traverse the globe, Tulsa-born composer Greg Edmonson is a unique musical voice in Hollywood, one that has experienced widespread acclaim in the diverse worlds of film, television and video games. Greg's talent on the guitar first brought him to Los Angeles, where his work as a session player led to composing as the next step in his musical journey....

Key Take Aways: Twitter is one of the older social networksTwitter is often used by more “academic” types - writers and suchTwitter requires a different strategy than Instagram. The noise level is far higherThe higher noise-level has to do with the relative ease of putting together a post on Twitter, versus other platformsTo cut through the noise, you gotta be tweeting all the time!Twitter is one of the best places to connect with high-profile people. Try it! Tweet at some people for fun to...

Key Take Aways: Artistic developmentstill a lot of value in a labelmake sure you are reaching out to the right personalready well on your wayindicator of gritall your content is on every platformcontinually put out content Get more info about how to use SoundCloud in the Bonus Round at ModernMusician.co/Bonus Learn more about Budi: BudiVoogt.com HeroicRecordings.com The SoundCloud Bible by Budi Voogt Mic Check is a recording equipment rental company that ships gear straight...

Key Take Aways: Active listeningwhat makes a song tickespecially in musicknow who they are as an artistthey can take it away from youdefine success for themselves "A producer is a professional enabler" - Andy Freeman Mic Check is a recording equipment rental company that ships gear straight to your door all over the U.S. They make getting the equipment you've always wanted easier. Modern Musician Listeners! Get 4 FREE Days on your first rental! Checkout this exclusive offer here:...

Nathan Kelly is an American composer in Los Angeles, best known for working as an arranger for recording artists such as Joss Stone, Andrea Bocelli, Dionne Warwick, The Tony Awards, and film scores. Kelly studied music composition at the University of Texas, film scoring at the University of Southern California, and took further education at the Juilliard School of Music, Tanglewood, Massachusetts, Aspen Music School, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Bowdoin, Maine, and the Pacific Northwest...

Key Take Aways: Is artistry and productivity an oxymoron?No great work of art or creativity was ever achieved by accidentSome of the most successful people you know, that you may envy because you don’t think they’re as talented as you or others, simply worked harder than anyone else to get what they wantedWhat are you spending your time on?Examine everything you do, and ask if it is part of the 80% that get’s you 20% results, or if it is part of the 20% that gets you 80%Seize the morning....

Sahpreem King is a multi-platinum music producer, music business educator, academic lecturer, music consultant, and music business book author and music industry writer. He has written several music industry books, as well as worked with some of the biggest names in hip-hop. He has an extensive background in music production, music marketing, business, and education design and technology. Key Take Aways: feelanythingconnecting"If you don't change with the change, the change is gonna...

Key Take Aways: reach out to peoplemake it easy for themishugeupload something (like teasers) nativelylove! Bonus Round: Deeper Dive Into YouTube Specifics at ModernMusician.co/Bonus Learn more about Landon Austin: YouTube.com/LandonAustin FaceBook.com/LandonAustinMusic Twitter @LandonAustin iTunes Mic Check is a recording equipment rental company that ships gear straight to your door all over the U.S. They make getting the equipment you've always wanted easier. Modern...

First and foremost, Jerald is a husband to his beautiful wife, Zanny, and a father to his wonderful children. Jerald Simon is the founder and president of Music Motivation® (musicmotivation.com). He is a composer, author, poet, and Music Mentor™/piano teacher (primarily focusing his piano teaching on music theory, improvisation, composition, and arranging). Jerald loves music, teaching, speaking, performing, playing sports, exercising, reading, writing poetry and self help books, and...

Key Take Aways: There is no o secret sauce or formulaIn everything that you do - infuse your personal “brand” or whatever makes you really unique, into itIf you can find an area of focus that already has interest and a lot of attention, you can piggy-back off that momentumBut the key is to find a way to do it in a way that is still very much your brand, and very much youThis is the difference between selling out, and making good careers decisions with your music.The sellout will follow any...

Mark Jean served as the VP of Creative Licensing for TV and Film at the Mobius Music Group, where his duties include expanding and organizing the music library for placement in TV, Film, Advertising, Video Games, and all other media, as well as business Development by expanding relationships with music supervisors, music editors, productions companies, video game companies, advertising agencies, web content, and sport networks. He currently owns and runs Runway Sound Studio in Sherman Oaks,...

Quote of the Day “Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ― Chuck Close Key Take Aways: What Are Your Keys to a Successful Musical Career? connectioninputInteractabout the musicmusical chemistrygoals that are alignedobsessed with your passionAlways createget out How Do You Find the Time to Practice? gigging is practicingtake advantage of small amounts of time to practiceforceTeaching is practice the greatslive concertsget around people who are...

Key Take Aways: Periscope is a live video streaming app, exclusively for use on mobile devicesAfter broadcasting, you have the option to either save the “scope” for 24 hours, or get rid of the replay immediately2015 has proven to be the year that live video streaming really caught on as a social mediumThe idea of live-streaming really catching on in a massive way should be very exciting for musicians, especially those who thrive under live circumstancesThe live aspect of performances has...

Ian Green was born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Playing piano since he was 5 years old, Ian enjoys playing all styles of music including: jazz, classical, pop, ragtime, blues, and freely improvised music. A graduate of Queen’s University (BMus, 2006) and the Royal Conservatory of Music at Toronto (A.R.C.T., 2006), Ian maintains a thriving music studio teach piano lessons, music rudiments, history, and theory at all levels of the curriculum for the Royal Conservatory of Music. In...