Bedste David Lane-podcasts (2024)

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The Musician Toolkit Episode 100 Celebration and Announcements 35:56

1M ago35:56

35:56

For Episode 100, I say thank you to all of you who have listened to even 1 episode, let alone all 100! In this episode, I recap the tools of musicianship, and I celebrate moments like my favorite episodes that didn't have as high of listener numbers that I think you might have missed. I also share announcements like a new name, a new focus, and a n…

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When and How to Pivot As a Musician 38:31

2M ago38:31

38:31

Professional musicians often have to confront obstacles from job changes...to a piece they're practicing that isn't getting better...to possible existential threats such as streaming services and AI. To be a successful musician for a long time requires knowing when and how to pivot. Hopefully this episode will help you answer both questions. Let me…

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Be a Musician Who DOES, Not Just Plans 26:38

2M ago26:38

26:38

Planning is good, but doing is better! Whether it's composing your next piece, practicing something hard or accomplishing a career goal, it's possible to become a doer and not just a planner even if that hasn't been your natural inclination. In this episode, I share what has worked for me. Let me know your thoughts on this episode as a voice messag…

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How to Make Sure You're Getting Benefits From Reading 25:25

2M ago25:25

25:25

Reading for self-improvement is a common habit among successful people in all kinds of fields, and this is definitely true for musicians! However, good reading is more than just staring at words on pages. Besides types of books, it's important to invest time, energy and techniques to get the most out of what you're reading. Let me know your thought…

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Getting Started with a New Church Music Job 26:31

2M ago26:31

26:31

On Episode 90, I chatted with Bob Moore about the tools of being a church music director. At the time, I was 20 months removed from being a church music director myself. However, one day after this episode releases, I will be starting a new job as a church music director. In this episode, I share my goals and action lists to help ensure that I get …

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4 Types of Books Every Composer Should Own 20:48

3M ago20:48

20:48

If you're a composer or an arranger, it is invaluable to have plenty of references to help you study and improve your craft. I share 4 types of books that I think every composer should have on their bookshelf, and my personal favorites of each kind. Let me know your thoughts on this episode as a voice message to possibly share on a future episode a…

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Music Notation Apps in a Post-Finale World (with Jason Loffredo) 47:40

3M ago47:40

47:40

On August 26, 2024, the long-time popular notation app called Finale announced that it would be permanently discontinuing all of its software, leading to very vocal anxiety and panic among its many veteran users. Professional composers and arrangers, as well as educators all need a good notation app, but Finale is no longer a choice. Jason Loffredo…

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The Four Core Performance Skills for Beginning Students 23:42

3M ago23:42

23:42

Recently, I spoke for 5 episodes about the four core performance skills, the musical skills that will allow you to play well in any situation for any genre. If you're a beginner or you teach beginners, how early can you get started with these skills? Check out why I think that not only can you start right away, but you actually should. Also listen …

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Batching: A Way to Actually Get Things Done 22:27

3M ago22:27

22:27

Whether it involves practicing, composing, or any other creative goals you have, there's a way that I've found that actually works to allow you to accomplish everything you wish. It's called batching, and it satisfies the brain's need to get and maintain a flow state. Check out this episode to find out how batching can make a real difference in you…

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How I Plan a Theatre Music Rehearsal 42:49

3M ago42:49

42:49

How can you plan a music rehearsal that is efficient and effective? In the world of musical theatre, the music director is responsible for planning music rehearsals to teach all vocal parts to a cast where not everyone sings on every song. There's also only a few rehearsals available to teach everything. Planning good music rehearsals requires orga…

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The Tools of Church Music Directing (with Bob Moore) 58:47

4M ago58:47

58:47

One possible part-time or full-time job for many musicians can be as a music director for a church. Bob Moore is a composer with much experience as a music director for Catholic and Episcopalian churches. David Lane is a composer with much experience as a music director for Baptist and Methodist churches. In this episode, we chat about the musician…

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Revisiting the Importance of Talent in Music 32:33

4M ago32:33

32:33

If you want to succeed in music, how important is talent? I shared a strong opinion on this way back on Episode 3 of this podcast. I've thought about it a lot since then, and have since changed my mind about some of it but still feel strongly on other points. With the 2024 Summer Olympics being a recent event that featured a lot of developed talent…

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The Four Core Performance Skills part 5 - Improvising 36:19

4M ago36:19

36:19

The final core performance skill to explore is the ability to improvise. This is a skill that is very natural to some musicians (and even non-musicians) and very mysterious and perhaps even scary to others. And yet, it's the oldest of all the skills, the earliest way to create music. It's also essential for every genre other than classical (and the…

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The Four Core Performance Skills part 4 - Transposing 39:20

4M ago39:20

39:20

Transposing is unique among the core skills in that it's the only one that is dependent on one of the other skills. Being able to play well while reading music or by listening is required to give you a starting point. The ability to take a piece of music from any source and change it to any of the other keys is a distinctive skill because it focuse…

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The Four Core Performance Skills part 3 - Playing By Ear 41:05

5M ago41:05

41:05

The 4 Core Performance Skills are the big skills that every musician should strive to master to be the most balanced and well-rounded musician possible, and to have success as a performer in EVERY situation. The second of these core skills is playing by ear, or playing music with accuracy after hearing it played elsewhere but having no written scor…

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The Four Core Performance Skills part 2 - Sight Reading 44:53

5M ago44:53

44:53

The 4 Core Performance Skills are the big skills that every musician should strive to master to be the most balanced and well-rounded musician possible, and to have success as a performer in EVERY situation. The first of these core skills is sight reading. Sight reading not only gives you essentially a head start on learning new music, it is ESSENT…

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The Four Core Performance Skills part 1: An Overview of the Skills 20:50

5M ago20:50

20:50

There are many skills you need to become a great musician such as developing good technique, being good at ear training, and having a good knowledge of music theory. None of these are the Core Skills but they help improve all four. The 4 Core Performance Skills are the 4 types of situations that you might be expected to do in a performance. Most pe…

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Practice Success: The Power of the Subconscious Mind 25:13

5M ago25:13

25:13

Simply put: you can't play music well unless you're subconscious mind is driving the bus. If you're aware of having to think about each note, each rhythm, each aspect of the music before you play it, then you're still practicing with your conscious mind. When you train your technique and repertoire beyond the point of awareness where your hands jus…

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Problem Solving in the Practice Room (with Dr. Larry Weng) 1:00:20

6M ago1:00:20

1:00:20

Have you ever thought you had a piece memorized only to play it for someone and you start having memory slips? This is one of many common problems that can be solved through a process of troubleshooting, the same that an auto mechanic or computer technician might use. Dr. Larry Weng of Wake Forest University talks about this approach of problem sol…

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For Success in Anything, Develop This One Skill! 40:34

6M ago40:34

40:34

There are so many things a musician must develop to be a success. There's technique, fluency in music theory, composition and arranging skills, the skill of marketing, the skill of networking, staying up-to-date with the industry, and much more. However, there is ONE SKILL that is important for you to develop first that makes all of these other ski…

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Coaching Theatre and Pop Vocals (with Bob Marks) 49:28

6M ago49:28

49:28

Bob Marks has been a renowned vocal coach for well over 4 decades. His former students is a wall of fame roster and includes: Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lea Michele, Laura Bell Bundy, Ashley Tisdale, Debbie Gibson, Natalie Portman, and more. In this episode, Bob talks about what his role is as a vocal coach in contrast wit…

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Never Forget Your Main Thing as a Musician | Ep79 32:13

6M ago32:13

32:13

As David Lane shares, an attempt to create a true master calendar, accounting for all 168 hours in a week, is a sobering lesson. Chances are that you, like he, have too many interests, too many obligations, and/or too many goals. It's also easy to crowd out the main thing that drives you as a musician - whether that be playing your instrument, cond…

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Session Recording on Trumpet (with Paul Baron) | Ep78 57:11

6M ago57:11

57:11

Paul Baron is an active performer on the trumpet. He is currently touring on the Broadway National Tour of Disney's Frozen. He has also appeared on many albums by world-famous pop and rock artists such as Aerosmith, David Lee Roth (from whom he learned an important musical lesson), Michael Buble, INXS, and many more. In this episode, we talk about …

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More Review, Less New for Success | Ep77 21:13

7M ago21:13

21:13

It's human nature to want to learn all the music, listen to every album, read every book, watch every movie, and visit every city. However, there's not nearly as much time as we'd like to do even a fraction of any of this. And since we can't do everything, it's much more powerful to savor than to sample. Listening again and again to music that insp…

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The One Minute Practice Challenge | Ep76 18:59

7M ago18:59

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If you're having trouble progressing as much as you'd like when practicing music, you might like this extreme but very focused approach. Instead of practicing on something for 10 minutes and thinking about how much progress you can make in 10 minutes, consider how much progress you could make minute-by-minute for 10 single minutes. This episode wil…

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Put Your Goals In Action! | Ep75 43:35

7M ago43:35

43:35

It's one thing for a musician to state a goal, even a big one, but it's useless until you've given it some legs. What's the difference between saying you plan to write a musical and getting that musical staged in an official production? The difference is that the first scenario takes virtually no effort, and the 2nd takes a lot of steps, work, and …

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How to Improve Your Observation | Ep74 22:37

7M ago22:37

22:37

The skill of observation is a crucial skill for all musicians. However, it's also a skill that most students have not come close to developing when they're early in their lessons for learning their instrument. Observation helps you find patterns, to identify structure, to see how one part of the music connects with another, not to mention more basi…

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10 Favorite Jazz Albums (From Someone Who Didn't Always Like Jazz) | Ep73 37:48

8M ago37:48

37:48

Jazz is a genre that serious musicians at least take time to explore. Whether it's classical musicians, film composers, rock musicians, pop artists, hip hop artists, even country artists like Willie Nelson...it's hard to find accomplished musicians in any genre who are ignorant of the world of jazz. While this episode won't get into the nuts and bo…

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How to Compose a Canon | Ep72 32:25

8M ago32:25

32:25

Composing and Improvising are essential tools for every well-rounded musician, but they are different skills. Quite often, when someone decides to become a composer, they are making up something from their instrument and then writing it down on staff paper. This is actually more of a transcribed improvisation than it is true composition. There's no…

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Creating Value as an Entrepreneurial Musician (with Brian Witkowski) | Ep71 1:04:26

8M ago1:04:26

1:04:26

Many professional musicians and music teachers struggle with charging what their worth, or even what they need to charge to make even a decent living. Brian Witkowski of The Lucrative Artist helps musicians and other artists to develop their "money voice", to change the way they think about money. In this episode, we chat about a variety of ways th…

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Helpful and Harmful Practice Mindsets | Ep70 14:50

8M ago14:50

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Even after you've scheduled your practice time each day and planned what your focus is during that time, the mindset you bring to your practice will absolutely affect how well or poorly you do during your session. There are 5 common types of practice mindsets, 2 which are helpful and 3 which are not. Which one or ones do you gravitate towards the m…

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The Business Side of Private Teaching (with Andrea Miller) | Ep69 1:07:40

9M ago1:07:40

1:07:40

If you're an independent teacher, there are a number of important steps to go from being a hobbyist to becoming a legitimate business. Andrea Miller of Music Studio Startup talks about all of this including making a decision about becoming an LLC and what steps go with that if you choose, making quarterly tax estimates, deductions, and other genera…

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25 MORE Essential Classical Pieces You Should Know | Ep68 39:57

9M ago39:57

39:57

This is a follow-up to Episode 17 from last year, where this podcast introduced 25 pieces of classical music, not necessarily the best or most acclaimed pieces, but 25 that you should know even if classical music is not your genre of focus. Even after 25 more pieces, there are so many that were left out, but this plus the previous episode in this s…

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Instrument Spotlight: The French Horn (with Kate Warren) | Ep67 1:07:41

9M ago1:07:41

1:07:41

The Instrument Spotlight series within The Musician Toolkit is meant to introduce instruments as possible primary or secondary instruments, the challenges, the repertoire, and the capabilities. Kate Warren is a freelance hornist and educator who also serves as Yaffe Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow for the Yale School of Music's Music in Schools Initi…

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Music History Basics | Ep66 28:55

9M ago28:55

28:55

This episode is primarily meant as a primer for music students. It gives a very broad overview of music history from the Medieval era through what we might call modern classical music. This episode is limited to Western civilization and some of the common composers. This episode also offers David Lane's suggestion that we should rethink how we've c…

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Learning Different Instruments (with Ronnal Ford) | Ep65 58:22

10M ago58:22

58:22

Dr. Ronnal Ford has learned to play, on a professional level, all of the woodwind and stringed instruments of the orchestra in addition to a few others. He talks about how he approaches learning a new instrument. He also talks about the challenges of being a musician of color in the classical community, and some of the recent opportunities that hel…

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Adjusting Your Goals: Balancing Reality and Ambition | Ep64 26:05

10M ago26:05

26:05

Should you strive for big and hard goals, or safe goals that are fairly easy to attain? What do you do when it becomes obvious that you won't reach a goal by the deadline you gave yourself? This episode talks about these questions, along with the importance of balance, grace, pivot, and the importance of failure and discomfort. Let me know your tho…

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Overcoming the Intermediate Plateau | Ep63 31:29

10M ago31:29

31:29

If you're studying music and find yourself unable to progress, or are progressing too little in your opinion when considering your practice time, don't despair. You are experiencing something very common in music and in plenty of other skill areas: the intermediate plateau. This episode discusses why it exists and 7 things you can do to break throu…

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Improving Sight Reading by Touch (with David Holter) | Ep62 1:02:30

10M ago1:02:30

1:02:30

Anyone who seeks to become better a better sight reader will find a lot of information on what your eyes should be doing as you play, but there has not been nearly as much focus on what your hands should be feeling. If you play the piano or other instrument that involves a lot of movement with the hands, can you manage steps and leaps with accuracy…

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Building a Staircase to Success in Music | Ep61 18:54

10M ago18:54

18:54

Whether it's composing a big piece, trying to master difficult repertoire, or wanting to build a full-time teaching studio when you don't even have your first student, it's easy to see the target far in the distance. Learning how to build and climb a staircase will help you accomplish absolutely any goal you have, big or small! Previous episode ref…

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A Better Way to Practice Slowly | Ep60 21:27

11M ago21:27

21:27

If you've had a music teacher at any point in your life, you've probably heard the advice to "slow down". It is truly excellent advice...if you approach it a certain way. If your idea of practicing slowly is to make everything proportionately slower (as if someone filmed you full speed and then put the video in slow motion), this is only one way, a…

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Goals, Motivation, and Organization (with Melissa Slocum) | Ep59 1:01:51

11M ago1:01:51

1:01:51

Whether you're a teacher or a performing musician, you'll only go as far as your goals, your system for dealing with lack of motivation, and your organization. The guest for this episode is Melissa Slocum - piano teacher, business coach, and podcaster. We talk about a variety of topics in this episode, including better ways to think about goals, a …

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The Circle of 5ths and All It Reveals | Ep58 43:45

11M ago43:45

43:45

No single visual aid shows more aspects of how music works than the Circle of 5ths (sometimes called Circle of Keys and Circle of 4ths). Besides its more widely known uses for showing the order of sharps and flats along with the keys in sharp and flat order, it also shows scale degree frequency, primary and secondary triads, chord groupings, and mo…

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Physical Wellness for Musicians (with Angela McCuiston) | Ep57 1:02:09

11M ago1:02:09

1:02:09

So many musicians sit for hours a day, or perform a similar motion repeatedly, or maintain their arms in a fixed position...or some combination of those three, and they lead to injuries or fatigue in more than 90% of musicians at some point in their career. The majority of issues are correctable and even preventable. The guest for this episode is A…

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Scales, Modes, and How to Use Them | Ep56 34:14

12M ago34:14

34:14

Basic classical music education introduces students to a major scale, 3 types of minor scales, and a chromatic scale. If you continue a little deeper, you might get a passing introduction to the modes (such as dorian and phyrigian), the whole tone scale, pentatonic scales, and maybe the diminished scale, not to mention non-Western and even syntheti…

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New Year’s Goals Part 2: 10 Musical Goals for 2024 | Ep55 35:10

12M ago35:10

35:10

On Episode 53, we offered 12 areas you want to consider reducing or eliminating in order to clear room on your slate. This episode follows up to offer 10 specific musical goals that you can add to your own goals in order to become a better more well-rounded musician this upcoming year! Prior episodes mentioned: New Year's Goals Part 1: Letting Some…

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3 Personal Favorite Pieces of Christmas Music | Ep54 9:22

12M ago9:22

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our listeners! This short episode is an introduction to David's 3 favorite pieces of Christmas music: Samuel Barber: Die Natali Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols Les Brown & His Band of Renown: Nutcracker Suite *In the episode, Episode 54 is promoted as part 2, but that episode will be a special Christma…

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New Year’s Goals Part 1: Letting Some Things Go | Ep53 32:06

1y ago32:06

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This week's episode and next offer some suggestions on New Year's goals. Episode 55* will deal with suggested goals for getting things done or accomplished, but this week's Episode 53 is important to check out first. Before you can really get things accomplished that matter to you the most as a musician, you have to make room in your life by auditi…

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8 Tips for Becoming a Better Teacher | Ep52 22:09

1y ago22:09

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David Lane is about to celebrate 24 years of being a private teacher for piano, composition, and theory. He offers 8 tips for becoming a better teacher, some easy-to-apply things that he was not doing from the very beginning, each of which has made him a better and happier teacher. Let me know your thoughts on this episode at https://www.speakpipe.…

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Composing for Television Series (with Sherri Chung) | Ep51 57:06

1y ago57:06

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Sherri Chung is a composer of numerous television and streaming series, including Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai, Kung Fu, Riverdell, Based on a True Story, and more. We talk about her career but also about creativity, the importance of a full education in music composition and orchestration (rather than just specializing in one type of music) and…

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