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By Brian Donovan
© 2008-2009, Brian Donovan. All Rights Reserved. Used By Permission (Please do not reprint without asking permission!)
When I was younger, I tried to find time to be creative. What I
found was that I had to make the time. But as I made that time,
something else happened: real life always found a way to disturb my
precious creativity.
Now,
over the years, I have found numerous ways to make that all-important
creative time for myself and yet, all of my family members still love
me, my friends still talk to me and I have even found outside interests
(surprisingly) that fill me with a whole new intensity that creativity
could never fill. The outcome of these lessons is "Music Life" - a
column about how to make your creative life and your everyday life
peacefully, and productively, co-exist. Join me, and I'll give you
easy ways to be a musician yet enjoy your everyday life during your
music's tacet.
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A short bio
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Articles:
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Music Life: 12 - Omni Focus And My Lyrics -
I'm always on the lookout for a new system that makes my creativity easier to manage. Recently I stumbled onto Omni Focus by The Omni Group...and it has changed my creative life forever! Hopefully, it will change YOUR creative life as well...
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Music Life: 11 - Creating The Perfect Songwriting Studio -
I've developed the most professional, yet minimalistic list of gear for an amazing (and amazingly simple) songwriting/demo recording studio. And I share my thoughts on how you can implement it to make your songwriting an effortless and gratifying part of your day that doesn't interfere with the rest of your life. Here is that list, now...
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Music Life: 10 - Allowing Yourself To Create Crap -
Creating a great idea can be daunting. Allow yourself to create some crap to take the pressure off...
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Music Life: 01 - Creative and Everyday Can Co-Exist -
Want to devote your life to your music, but the selling of your soul has your personal life in shambles? Here's how to make your creative life and your everyday life peacefully, and productively, co-exist.
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Music Life: 02 - How NOT to Practice -
This month, we'll set goals to make our practicing SO efficient, that we'll hardly have to practice at all . . .
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Music Life: 03 - Practicing With NO Instrument -
If you're a human being, you won't ALWAYS be near your instrument to practice. Here's how to bridge that gap...
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Music Life: 04 - Music By Myself? Or Live As A Group? -
Relationship issues? Blame your music. Here's the way that I solved the life vs. music dilemma.
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Music Life: 05 - Technology Is Your Songwriting Partner -
Too many gadgets in your pockets: a pen, paper, a recorder of some kind? Just trying to decipher what you need to turn your ideas into completed songs? This is how I do it everyday.
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Music Life: 06 - MUSICAL PRODUCTIVITY! - Part 1 - Organize Musical Ideas -
We started talking about the wealth of ideas you carry in your head: how to collect them, how to organize them all and how to make them into something you can be proud of. This installment, we cover the organization of those small ideas that turn into BIG profits. Both emotionally and monetarily.
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Music Life: 07 - MUSICAL PRODUCTIVITY! - Part 2 - Write Scratch-Versions of Songs -
We've been discussing how to get more of your music completed when you seem to have just a slew of musical ideas, but never seem to finish a single one of them. Here's the next step: how to write rough songs using your collected ideas as a starting point.
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Music Life: 08 - MUSICAL PRODUCTIVITY! - Part 3 - Arrange Scratch-Vers. Into DEMOS -
...the next step in making your musical productivity a reality...
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Music Life: 09 - MUSICAL PRODUCTIVITY! - Part 4 - Record Final Performances -
The final chapter in a saga of information about going from inspiration to final recording...
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short bio:
Brian Donovan began his musical career by the age of 13
when he and his friends wrote and produced their first record, albeit
somewhat goofy. Brian quickly developed a love for everything musical
and after years of study, he earned a degree from Berklee College of
Music. After graduation, Brian moved to California and has been
working as a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist. He has also used his
knowledge of production to great effect by recording tracks for some of
today's best known artists for the last 12 years.
As
well as finding ways to foster that next big wave of creativity, Brian
is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in southern California
who currently writes songs for individual recording artists, tv and
film.
Check out Brian's newest CD: "Mugu Point" at his website:www.BrianDonovan.com
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