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When times get tricky...here's what to do! And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight or inspiration...

This is the 2nd step of the "prep for the best possible next year" process I'm taking you through in this "Festive" Season 3. You'll find the 1st step of the process in the previous PodWalk here... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. L...

And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight or inspiration...

Let's kick off "Festive" Season 3 - where we'll get clear on what we're doing NEXT YEAR! Starting with The Review... This is the process I'm using with my team, coaches and clients for birds eye view of last year. And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine...

This morning I did a thinking exercise about what I wanted this album to be...and I got a HUGE SHOCK! Here's where I did the thinking exercise... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Ma...

How to "recover" from a brilliant beginning... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight or inspiration...

And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight or inspiration...

Let me tell you a true story...the making of my 1st album Smorgasbord in 2005(ish). This story contains s a number of crucial lessons I've learnt which are helping me make my 5th album now. And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to...

In the last PodWalk of Season 2 let's have the "debate that isn't a debate at all" debate. What is the relationship between quality and quantity? If you've ever said "I'm all about quality not quantity" then this is for YOU! And if you're already familiar with my schtick on this subject - there's even something new for you too! :) And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST w...

Let's talk about what is coming in PodWalk "Festive Season 3"... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight o...

"I'm not practising to make. I practise through making." And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight or inspir...

Alex discovers the secret to making the best music of his life in the shortest imaginable time... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a r...

To do your best work, you must play to your strengths and de-emphasise your weaknesses But I've just realised that by focusing on my current skills, I've been playing to my WEAKNESSES... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my...

"I know exactly what I want but I just can't get it to come out right" is a problem I've heard repeated 1000s of times over the last decade. (In fact, today on a coaching session with a group of musicians, at least 3 said this was their no. 1 problem.) But there's a problem with the problem itself. It's based upon a set of mistaken assumptions about ideas, the creative process and how the human mi...

I've made a couple of "big scary" decisions today...one of them might be the WORST IDEA EVER: And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regul...

With my music I've had a "dragon" I've avoided for years... Is this the album I finally enter it's lair and slay this dragon? And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my...

WHY does the Making Machine work? What's behind it? Because any system that works has to be based upon principles... Starting with one of the most insidious, destructive forces I've seen kill many a track, song and even career dead. What's worse is that the tools and technology we use to create suck us into this creative black hole. UNLESS you know what the problem is, why it's so dangerous and wh...

I'm launching not 1 but 2 new podcasts! Find out what they are and where you'll find them in this double trailer. And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp cha...

Your opinion about your music changes. So which of your opinions do you believe? More on what we talked about: What is a "Splurge"?: https://makemusicyourlife.com/mondayland/what-is-a-splurge Production vs Practice: https://makemusicyourlife.com/mondayland/production-vs-practice The Idea Explosion Challenge: https://makemusicyourlife.com/iec And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the...

What to expect from this new weekly podcast... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music Machine template... 3. Listen to my in-progress songs in my current Music Machine... 4. Join my WhatsApp channel, to get a regular espresso shot of insight or inspiration...

In the modern music industry where streaming (and therefore presumably singles) are ascendant - what on earth is the point of making an album? There isn't A point. There are many...some creative, some psychological and some career/business development. On this episode I'll let you know why I've decided to make an album for creative reasons... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try th...

In the 1st 3 PodWalks of Season 2, I've shared how the Making (and Music) Machine fundamentally works. In the final PodWalks I'll share what's the behind the Machine, but first a little background on how it came to be... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST way to make loads of music: Check out the Turbo Track Attack... 2. Make more music you love with the FREE Music M...

Beating a piece into submission is the default method of finishing for many makers... But while it works (I did it for years with my music), is it the best way to get quality or quantity? On our PodWalk today we're going to talk about the problems with "brute forcing" your work, and a much more fun, free and effective alternative... And whenever you're ready... 1. If you'd like to try the SIMPLEST...

What is a "bad" idea? From my experience of using the Magic Making Machine I've come to realise that a bad idea is a good idea out of context. One of the benefits of using a system like the Machine is you get a birds eye view of what you've been doing. It tracks what you do over many years, so you realise that you're perception of what you've done and what you've been doing is out of whack with re...

How many top artists have you heard say something like: "I can't stand listening to my past music, all I can hear are the mistakes!" I said this, too, for many years. But there's a glaring problem with this. What are mistakes? What are the problems within the music we have made? And how does hiding from what we don't like about our work hold us back? On our PodWalk today, we will talk about what w...