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Welcome to the Best Music Podcast. My name is Dan the Music Man. I have been doing a combination of playing, performing, recording, and teaching music professionally for the past 10 years. I am starting this podcast to answer a single question: What drives, and sustains top musician’s creativity and their ability to perform at the highest level, and how did they get there? Here, on the Best Music Podcast, you will hear from musicians and music industry insiders. Get key insights, hacks, and tips to take your music, and your creativity to the next level from the pros who know. The podcast is divided into two parts. First, we will meet the featured guest for the episode, find out about their career, projects, and areas of expertise. Second, we will take a deep dive behind the scenes and break down what works to keep our guest creative, stay in performance shape, and how they deal with different problems most musicians experience at some point in their careers. Subscribe and follow the Best Music Podcast…

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The Best Music Podcast #1 | Gregg Hollister | Rock Follies, Living a Creative Lifestyle, Music is its Own Reward

Gregg Hollister Gregg's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vocalbassdudeGman

Gregg Playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGAYN6KRh4

The Brian Druxx Project: http://briandruxproject.com/

Gregg has toured recorded or performed with Al Kooper, Richie Havens, Ron Dante, Tommy James, The Rockspurs, Paul Schaefer, Max Weinberg, Bernard Purdie, Phoebe Snow, Ian Hunter, Tico Torres, Joey D, Vicki Sue Robinson, Anthem, Masayoshi Takanaka, Terry Silverlight, Ben E. King, Cory Daye, Tom Verlaine, Paul Schaefer, and Richard Lloyd to name a few.

Commercial work includes jingles such as Sony, Kodak, Budweiser, Lifesavers, Mars Candy, Club Med, Yamaha Motorcycles, GM, Ciba Geigy, Schering Plough, and Hertz.

TV and film work includes work for PBS the made for TV CBS documentary Julissas Hands (the craigslist killer) movie work such as the Bad Lieutenant and the Driller Killer with Joe Delia/Abel Ferrar and countless musical projects supplying background vocals including Austin Powers movie trailers and Grownups with John Stamos. Gregg can currently be seen and heard playing with Hollister & Friends and The Brian Drux Project.

0:00 Intro

1:46 Warm-Up Questions

4:47 How Gregg Got Into Music

8:55 Rock Follies 1 & The Value of Owning Your Master Recordings

11:50 Perfume Commercials and Bad Contracts

12:55 How Music Publishing Works, How the Money is Divided

16:30 Rock Follies 2 & Managers Stealing from the Band, Getting Robbed

22:41 Joe Delia and the Rockspurs

24:31 Rock Follies 2.5 and 3

26:30 The 80s and Chaka Khan

31:23 The Darryl Canada Project & Rock Follies 4 & What is a Showcase?

34:22 Getting Smart, ASCAP

36:17 What is an Artist Showcase?

38:20 Rock Follies 5

41:56 Phoebe Snow and Al Kooper

45:00 What is a Spec Deal?

47:00 Shopping the Record - Yamaha

51:00 Ben E. King & Background Singer Session Work

52:07 Masayoshi Takanaka

56:00 How Gregg Makes Jingles & Brushing Philip Glass

1:01:30 Music is a Part of Me

1:02:15 Jimmy Leahey, The Brian Druxx Project, Hollister and Friends

1:14:35 Enter Drew Nagal

1:16:14 Max Weinberg Jukebox

1:19:22 Greatest Hits

1:24:20 Lifestyle: Sleep

1:31:54 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation

1:33:28 How Trans Siberian Orchestra Discovered Ashley Hollister

1:34:54 Paying Your Dues Past vs. Present

1:37:03 Creativity is a Lifestyle

1:40:22 Creativity: The Great Outdoors

1:41:42 Practice: How Many Hours a Day?

1:43:37 Practice: How much Time is Effective?

1:48:05 Performance: Performance Anxiety

1:50:48 Burn out

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The Best Music Podcast #2 | Rez Abbasi - Guitar | Creating New Music and Maintaining a Calm Mind

Voted #1 Rising-Star Guitarist in the 2013 DownBeat Critics Poll and subsequently placed in the “Top-Ten Guitarists” alongside luminaries Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny, guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi is one of the most original voices on the current scene. Making New York home for the past 25 years, Abbasi is considered by many to be one of the foremost modern jazz guitar players the world over. He has performed and recorded with many jazz greats including, Grammy winner Ruth Brown, Peter Erskine, Kenny Werner, Barre Phillips, Tim Berne, Michael Formanek, Billy Hart, Gary Thomas, Dave Douglas, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Mike Clark, Tim Hagans, John Beasly, Ronu Majumdar, Kadri Gopalnath, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Vijay Iyer, Marilyn Crispell, Greg Osby, Howard Levy and a host of others.

The renowned jazz critic, Bill Milkowski says “Abbasi’s unpredictable phrasing and accomplished writing are what sets him apart from hordes of other technically adept guitarists”.

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0:00 Intro

3:03 Creating New Music, Projects, and Ideas

10:12 Drop Tunings

11:45 Sitar Guitar

12:30 Bazaar (2007)

14:17 Soloing with Rhythm, Polyrhythms, and Syncopation

18:57 Metric Modulations in Compositions

22:03 How Rez Uses Power Chords in Jazz

25:04 Django Shift (2020)

33:48 How to Record a Jazz Record in the Modern Age

38:05 Oasis (2020)

43:56 How to Play Music over a Silent Film

48:52 What is Next for Rez?

52:00 Guitar Sound Shaping Play

53:55 Lifestyle, Practice, Performance, and Creativity

54:06 Lifestyle: Sleep

56:06 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation

1:00:04 Letting Go vs. Ego

1:02:11 Lifestyle: Finding the Right Partner for Musicians

1:06:51 Practice: What Comes Easy for You?

1:09:44 Practice: What was Hard for You?

1:14:13 Practice: What Time of Day is Best?

1:18:48 Practice: How Many Hours a Day?

1:23:06 Practice: How to Deal with and Mitigate Burn Out: Forced Rest Days

1:28:04 "I Don't Want to Think of Myself as a Professional Musician"

1:31:18 How Rez Deals with Performance Anxiety

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The Best Music Podcast #3 | Peter Lin - Trombone | Connecting and Creating Communities with Music, Practicing with Drones

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Taiwanese-American trombonist Peter Lin is a young and creative musician active on the New Jersey and New York scene. A graduate of the esteemed jazz programs of William Paterson University (undergraduate) and Rutgers University (graduate), Peter studied with jazz trombone legends such as Slide Hampton, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig, Robin Eubanks, Steve Davis, & Frank Lacy. He has performed with many notable artists including Slide Hampton, Winard Harper, Charli Persip, Valerie Ponomarev, JD Allen, & Radam Schwartz. Peter is also an established educator, holding a prestigious faculty position at Melissa Walker & Christian McBride’s non-profit organization, Jazz House Kids. His first record, With Respect, featured arrangements of classic Chinese and Taiwanese songs, which peaked at #3 on the NACC Charts and #4 on the RMR Charts. His second album, New Age Old Ways, features eight of his original compositions along with an original comic book with illustrations by Kelly Lin which placed #2 on the RMR Charts.

0:00 Intro

2:16 Warm-up Questions

7:00 With Respect (2018)

17:00 How Long it Takes to Write an Album

19:12 Live vs Studio Personel, Sitting In, Jam Sessions

24:00 Aural Traditions, Plunger Playing, and Mutes

32:00 Tedesco Studios

33:09 New Age Old Ways (2020)

39:04 Being Open and Honest - JD Allen Helps Create the Space for Creativity

42:16 No Chordal Instruments, Ornette Coleman, Avant Guard

46:37 Creating Music from Images and Finding a Voice

48:42 Playing Jazz Clubs

50:24 Yardbird Entertainment

53:45 How to Book Jazz Performances

58:09 How Yardbird Pivoted - Covid, Jazz House Kids

1:05:27 Live Jazz in the time of Covid, Alex Parchment

1:09:10 Bill Saxton

1:15:10 Jazz Lovers and Supporters

1:21:36 Creating a Jazz Community Together

1:25:16 Lifestyle: Sleep and Routine

1:30:56 Lifestyle: Diet and Exercise, Seperation of Work and Life

1:38:56 Lifestyle: Support Systems

1:44:01 Practice: What Comes Easy Understanding Cultures

1:46:35 Practice: What Takes Work: Pitch and Using Drones

1:52:40 Practice: Time of Day and Quantity

1:55:55 Burn Out

2:01:02 Performance Anxiety

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The Best Music Podcast #5 | Alex Parchment — Trumpet | #1 on Billboard Smooth Jazz Vibin' In Time

Alex's social media handle on all platforms: @mrparchment

Alex has had the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center and Blues Alley with jazz luminaries Patti Austin, Christian McBride, David Sanborn, Chick Corea, and Marion Meadows. In 2015, he was selected for the world-renowned Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program at the Kennedy Center. He now performs as a solo artist while also leading the Alex Parchment Quintet, a traditional jazz ensemble and AP.Chemistry, a musical experiment fusing soul, funk, hip hop, R&B and jazz to form a unique and energetic sound. In April 2020, Alex released his debut album entitled Burnin’ Up, which yielded two placements on the Smooth Jazz Billboard’s Top 30 Chart (“Vibin’ In Time” rising to #1, and “It’s Real” rising to #11).  

His new single “When It’s Hot” is out now on all major streaming platforms.

0:00 Intro

1:33 Warm-up questions

2:29 How Billboard works

4:12 Alex #1 song: How it happened

11:18 Alex's mission

13:54 Teamwork: The case for record labels

16:40 Roots and research before the studio

19:48 Album: What was your inspiration?

21:25 Smooth Jazz vs Traditional Jazz

24:51 How to make the trumpet sing

26:50 How Alex writes a melody: singing

33:15 Using synthesizers in smooth jazz

35:47 Using effects on trumpet

38:30 Alex's rhythmic choices

45:08 Don't let the culture of music school ruin music

48:00 When It's Hot: New Single

51:24 How to convey emotion in instrumental music

53:43 Lifestyle: Sleep

57:52 Lifestyle: Mindfulness & meditation

59:10 Why Alex likes 80 BPM

1:00:37 Lifestyle: Exercise

1:01:06 Lifestyle: Support system

1:06:07 Practice: Time of day and long tones

1:08:45 Practice: How many hours a day and days a week

1:12:50 Practice: Max hours

1:14:51 Classical vs Jazz trumpet

1:17:14 Practice: What Alex practices: Maintaining technical freedom to serve artistic choices

1:27:34 Practice: Injury

1:32:10 Creativity: Steps to stay creative

1:34:55 Creativity: Time of day

1:35:46 Creativity: Burn out

1:37:54 Performance: Performance anxiety

1:40:09 Alex's closing words: Wholistic musicianship

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The Best Music Podcast #6 | Chris Opperman — Composition | Chamber Music from Hell & Undertale LIVE & Working for Steve Vai

Website: https://www.chrisopperman.net/

Instagram: @oppycentral

Twitter: @chris_opperman

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The music of award-winning composer Chris Opperman sounds like your best dream being poured into a glass, and now also like your most artistically intriguing nightmare, but more on that later. For the past twenty years, Opperman has been carving his own niche in today's modern music scene. In addition to his own music, Opperman has performed with and/or orchestrated music for such industry luminaries as Grammy-award winning guitarist Steve Vai, virtuoso musician Mike Keneally, Indian classical music masters L. Shankar (a.k.a. Shenkar) and Zakir Hussein, and former Duran Duran/Missing Persons guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, among many others. Opperman played piano on two of Steve Vai's Grammy-nominated compositions, "Lotus Feet" from Real Illusions: Reflections and "The Attitude Song" from Sound Theories, Vols. I and II, both with the Metropole Orkest and both nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Opperman's orchestration of "For the Love of God," also from those sessions, has exceeded 33 million views on YouTube.  In 2001, he released the critically acclaimed Klavierstücke, a solo-piano album that piqued the interest of Steve Vai. Vai observed, “These days it’s rare to hear a person squeeze the most out of the performance potential of a non-electronic instrument.   His latest release “Chamber Music from Hell” has made it into major music magazines, received gushing critical reviews from colleagues and critics alike. “Someday, Opperman will be remembered as one of the greatest composers of the 21st century” —Jedd Beaudoin, Sea of Tranquility

0:00 Intro

03:04 Warm-Up questions

04:42 Chamber Music from Hell

07:16 Virtual artistic collaboration

08:53 It takes a village to raise an album

09:37 Algorithmic composition

12:07 Album artwork

14:08 Keeping it Tasty

15:08 Composing with AI algorithms

19:24 Aleatory composition: dice

21:43 Dan sticks his foot in his mouth

22:23 Are we living in a computer simulation?/Flat earthers/Shock Culture

28:53 Fermi Paradox & Aliens will eat us

33:11 The Cribbage Variations

34:24 Tone row composition

44:27 Undertale LIVE

47:35 Dan's worst moment on stage

48:23 Undertale LIVE

53:52 Hush hush!

54:23 Working for Steve Vai

1:00:41 Lifestyle: Sleep

1:05:07 Lifestyle: Mindfulness & Meditation & Single-tasking

1:06:06 Creativity: How to stay creative

1:08:45 Composing with flowerpots

1:10:07 Discipline & working hard

1:12:09 Composing: What time of day is best?

1:14:20 Composing: How much time?

1:15:40 Composing: Working to deadlines

1:17:32 Composing: Melody

1:19:11 Composing: Adovoding pattern making

1:2212 Composing: Where inspiration comes from

1:23:35 Performing: Injuries

1:24:42 Creativity: Maintaining creativity

1:27:42 Creativity: Time of day

1:28:23 Creativity: Burn out

1:29:01 Performance: Performance Anxiety

1:31:35 Start composing now

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The Best Music Podcast #7 | Cédric Hanriot— Piano | Using Clicks & Samples in Jazz

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Cédric Hanriot is a French pianist, bandleader, music composer, arranger, sound designer, music producer, and educator who has worked on Grammy Award-winning projects. Cédric's versatility has allowed him to work in the fields of jazz, jazz fusion, r'n'b, hip hop, funk, latin, electronic, pop and also film scoring. He worked on 8 of 12 songs on the Grammy-winning album Beautiful Life by Dianne Reeves - He is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright scholarship, used towards music studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. Cédric Hanriot has collaborated or played on records with some of the following international music icons and legends: Dianne Reeves, John Patitucci, Gregoire Maret, Terri Lyne Carrington, Donny McCaslin, Clarence Penn, Terreon Gully, Jeff Ballard, as well as Gregory Porter, Lalah Hathaway, Raul Midon, Lizz Wright, Chaka Khan, Natalie Cole, Lulu Gainsbourg, George Duke, Robert Glasper, Esperanza Spalding, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alex Han, Otis Brown III, Jason Palmer, Michael Janisch, and Franck Agulhon Performances Include Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Tanglewood Jazz Festival (MA), Joe's Pub (NYC), Iridium (NYC), the talk show “Says You” on NPR National Public Radio.

0:00 Intro

1:57 Warm-up Questions

7:52 Switching careers to music & Cédric's first band

13:39 The show must go on

16:14 Switching careers to music 2

21:38 Fullbright grant

22:52 Adding the third

25:05 Music school vs Use your ears

26:42 Berklee School of Music

28:13 Album: French Stories

35:31 Rhythm and math

39:28 Album: French Stories 2

41:34 Project: CH3

47:09 Real-time live sampling during a show

51:50 KS2: Using a click and samples in jazz?

57:23 Album: Day (KS2)

1:00:18 Virtual jazz

1:02:38 Album: Grammy-winning Beautiful Life by Dianne Reeves

1:05:51 Project: Polaroid Songs - Symphony Orchestra!!!!!

1:11:03 Lifestyle: Sleep

1:12:00 Lifestyle: Mindfulness & meditation

1:12:46 Lifestyle: Exercise

1:16:02 Practice: What time of day?

1:18:02 Practice: How many hours a day?

1:19:19 Practice: Maximum duration?

1:21:24 Practice: The science of sleep and music practice

1:23:10 Practice: Forced rest

1:24:46 Practice: What is easy and difficult

1:27:00 Practice: Injury

1:30:53 Creativity: Steps to stay creative

1:32:27 Creativity: Time of day?

1:33:18 Burnout

1:39:10 Performance anxiety

1:41:20 Practice: How to divide practice time

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