Hey guys! I always like to set deadlines with my goals and my next one is to double our members within 30 days! As this is OUR community that we've built together, I was going to ask for your assistance on this goal so we can all share this achievment. I know all of you guys will have your own artist friends and family who could benefit from the group so why not share it with them and get them involved too? If we all shared the link with a few people just like us, we'd double it in less than a week😂 So lets not gatekeep what we've got going on and spread the word! Outside of this, there are plenty ways I'm looking to make this a reality, such as: - 3x my posting output on Tiktok, dialing up to a minimum of 3-6 posts a day dependent on my schedule. 95% of my traffic is from there so need to target the source and just do more of what I'm already doing. This is applicable to your own music also and I'd encourage you to take this approach, look where you are getting the most results and TRIPLE DOWN there. - Sponsored ads (tail end of the 30 day challenge) Will start testing ads in the same way I run campaigns for music to get more members involved. For me, this will require alot more work and I'd prefer to keep things organic as that is always the best return on investment, but is definitely a good way to get more people involved. - word of mouth - i talk to so many artists or fans of my music who also make music and ask me for advice, I'm going to make a conscious effort to direct them to the group so that they can also benefit from what we have as a team.

One thing that I see quite a lot is the view of Music Theory being a waste of time or something that gets in the way of creativity. This couldn't be further from the truth and is actually restricting your creativity if you have this viewpoint. 💯Yes, you can go the free wheeling "music just needs to be free man!" approach, and good luck to you. (Often I find these people are actually scared and intimidated by it and so default to a fake confidence.) But, if you want to be able to clearly express your experiences and understand how dots are joined, learning and understanding the relevant music theory is a must. Like any subject, learning a bunch of non-practical information that is purely to be kept in the mind and used temporarily is more than pointless in my experience (remind you of a lot of the school curriculum lol?) 🤣 💬But learning practical theory, like any practical information you can use and reflect on in your life is a game changer. If we look at music as a language, and then how we learn language, the only reason we're able to communicate right now is because we got taught a part of English theory - the written word. 🍉 The word 'red' isn't the colour red, but you know what it means when I write it. I can also deliberately use creative writing in my own style using English's frameworks that can trigger your memory to see the colour in your head and see it more in your surroundings, just by suggesting it like I am now. 🤔How much does your clarity of reflecting and visualising affect your life? 🤔And how amazing is it using a set framework to be creative and share your ideas and viewpoints throught it? 🤔 Also, if your ability to translate your ideas and emotions is limited because you are blocked by not understanding how the frameworks work, what determental effects on your creativity does this have? Are you truly as free as you think? And isnt full creativity reliant on true freedom? Whatever your answers are, I would strongly argue it's exactly the same with Music. And don't you want to be free in both?

Hey guys, want to apologise for my absence as of recent. But I come with good reason and great news! I’ve had my first acting break and have been cast in a tv series! I’m travelling to Gran Canaria to film and can’t tell you how excited I am. I just wanted to let you u guys know that this space is not going anywhere and still is very much only the beginning of what we have planned. I’ll still be here to help answer questions and any time I get space to do a lecture I’ll give you guys some notice (once I know my filming schedule). Naturally, this is why the Q&A lecture this week hadn't gone ahead and Skool still notified you as they were set up as recurring. I’ll keep you posted when the next one is. It’ll only be a short while that I’m not as active as usual but best believe I’m missing you guys🫶🏾

Yo! 🤖So there is so much focus on techniques and the more mechanical side of music creation as artists, producers and songwriters. Which is great! How much of the music you make and listen to benefits from this is probably humanly impossible to calculate. But how much of our day is spent in the softer, more reflective inner world? Are we giving ourselves the self narratives to be kind and gentle on ourselves while not putting our self worth on the sliding scale of how well we can can make music, especially compared to other people. This hugely affects our outside choices like learning techniques. Are you learning them to really improve your music, or is there an element of filling a significance hole inside you? 🙏Maybe that's not necessarily something that's wrong. But are you going in the best direction for you, and if not, is your self narrative drifting you off course? I can struggle with this for sure. It's understandable. At school we were conditioned with sets and grades and in society, where is the narrative around encouraging creativity, making mistakes and focusing on where we are on the path, not the universally cheered outcome? 👏One thing that has really helped me over the years, in music and Life is Joseph Campbells' Heroes Jouney. For those not familiar with it, Campbell studied religions, civilisations and the human subconcious and discovered there are universal stages in our lives that are documented in all of them. He put these together in The Heroes Journey, which a lot of film and stories use as a framework. These stages either contain more resistance or more freedom. It's a journey each one of us goes through in tiny ways every day, all the way up to our whole life being a full cycle. I have started to enjoy looking at these stages as tension and release. And just like a Slingshot, how much tension you can create directly affects the amount of release you get. ✌️Maybe instead of belittling yourself today, comparing yourself in a powerless manner or talking low of yourself for not being where you 'should' be, you can play around with the idea you're exactly where you need to be with all the tools you need for the next step of your journey.