Due to events that I’m deciding to call “out of my control,” I did approximately diddly-squat this past week. Sometimes life happens and...

Practice: it’s what makes us good musicians! It is also the number one thing most musicians complain about online! Why is this? Well,...

We musicians can be our own worst enemy. Our passion causes us to care too much, our perfectionism causes us to avoid practicing, and our...

The new year is almost upon us. Last semester is finally over, and grades have (hopefully) started rolling in. If you didn’t get the...

Performance anxiety is basically a fact of life. I’m on my second performance degree right now, and just started my second decade as a...

Auditions are one of those things that no musician will ever be truly finished with. Unless you’re Renee Fleming, you’re going to have to...

Perseverance is probably one of the most important skills for musicians artists creative people ANYONE to have. And when I call it a...

Anonymous asked: I’m preparing for college auditions right now and I have a problem that is even more relevant now. I want to be...

I have a Patreon! Please consider supporting this blog. The question I received recently from tumblr user @life-of-mack was this:  “How...

First seen on my Patreon! Juries are upon us. It is the time of panicking freshman, smug recitalists (because they don’t need to perform...

Auditioning​ for college is probably one of the most nerve-racking​ things a musician will do in their career. However, the rep you...

After a semester of spending your life incredibly focused on music, it can be really, really tempting to spend your whole winter break...

The following article is taken verbatim from my book, How to Music Major: Surviving the College Search! It’s on Amazon and all other...

There’s a big statewide competition coming up for me and members of my studio, and all of the freshmen are starting to get jittery....

To practice effectively, you need to be able to do two main things: prioritize, and know when you’ve lost focus. A lot of performance...

Juries: the looming cloud at the end of every semester. Freshmen are told about them, and upperclassmen complain and warn about them. But...

DID YOU KNOW: Being a music major is widely considered highly stressful. A friend of mine made a joke the other day about how she is...

I will be completely honest here: one of the strangest but most predictable events of my musical school year is the annual Fleeing of the...

One of the things people think about when they imagine the college music experience is participating in small performance groups. They...

My first college audition went kinda awful. I was terrified the entire time, and don’t actually remember most of it. I wouldn’t wish...