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How Do Fear, Anxiety, and Other Negative Emotions Affect the Learning Process?

This guest post looks at research linking emotional mind-states with blocks in information retention, and how that might affect musicians.

What Super Mario Brothers Has to Do With Music Education

If Super Mario Bros taught us anything, it’s that gamifying the learning process leads to more motivated and fearless trying…

Make More Mistakes — They’re Your Greatest Assets in Learning Music

At some point in their journey learning music, everyone starts to develop a fear of making mistakes, but embracing them could be the key to unlocking more.

On Nick Cave’s 9 Primary Bedevilments of Creativity

A professional songwriter meditates on the relevance of Nick Cave’s philosophy on creativity, and his own struggles with procrastination and creativity.

The One Thing You Must Do to Make Money from Your Music

Musicians condem themselves to failure by subscribing subconsciously to the “starving artist” mentality, but it’s time to shift the paradigm and start anew.