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This can be a crazy time of year for musicians and creative types. Here's some thoughts from my own experience to help you stay sane! Get your free time management guide ⬇️ 👽 http://piersonkeatingpiano.com/time-energy-management-guide/ Connect with me on social http://instagram.com/piersonkeating http://facebook.com/piersonkeatingmusic I teach online piano lessons. Book a call here ⬇️ 🎹 https://calendly.com/consciousartistmentoring/freeintro

I've been a professional piano player since I was 11 (about 22 years). What have I learned during that time? A lot. And I'd like to share it with you. I have 1,000,000 ideas. But I don't know which ones are going to help YOU the most. Please leave a comment in the description or let me know on social media... 1. What are you working on? 2. What's your main concern? 3. What would change your life for the better musically or creatively? Oh, and don't forget to grab your Time Management Guide here ⬇︎ http://piersonkeatingpiano.com/time-energy-management-guide/ Oh, and don't make videos and drive. ✌🏼🎅🏼

This song, like 2 of the other songs on my upcoming EP "Second Chances I", was written at a time in my life when I felt I didn't fit neatly into any place, and I was ambivalent about the many roads laid before me. I used the man Robert Johnson as the song's figurehead for many reasons. He's widely regarded as the inventor of the Blues, a style of music without which we wouldn't have jazz, rock, pop, or pretty much any of the music we listen to today. He also is enshrouded in a spooky legend where he meets the Devil at a crossroads and sells his soul so he can be the best guitarist who ever lived. The crossroads is also a symbol of the apex at which we make a pivotal choice (which direction will I go?) and linked to this can be the experience of indecision, a theme in this song. The legend is so profound in its many angles and its depth, that it's stuck with me ever since I first heard of it. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you've been at a point in your life when you've been faced with many choices, none of them particularly ideal... or maybe you felt that you were selling out, and even wondered if the selling out wasn't worth it to achieve a greater goal. If you've faced any of these things, this song is for you, too. https://facebook.com/piersonkeatingmusic https://piersonkeatingmusic.bandcamp.com/community https://instagram.com/piersonkeating

✅ Get the "spreadsheet method" for tracking your progress in my free time/energy management guide: ☞ https://rb.gy/u4ulw ✅ Schedule a free 20-minute Mindset Call with me so you can get on a fast track toward your creative goals: ☞ https://calendly.com/consciousartistmentoring/20minfree This goes into an issue that many musicians (and other creative people) face: the feeling of not making progress fast enough, even when you’re putting in the hours. I go into 2 things you can do and apply practically to feel better about yourself: 1) What’s causing these feelings in the first place (and a simple method you can use to shed light on the progress you ARE making - with a free resource to help you: https://rb.gy/u4ulw) 2) A psycho-spiritual technique you can use to release unhelpful feelings as they come up- which has worked and continues to work for me ✨✨ Enjoy it, and feel free to share with friends, family, and fellow musicians and/or artists who could use it! The quote I read is from "The Untethered Soul" by Michael Singer, from Shanti Publications, 2007, Oakland California. Page 63. Follow me on social: https://instagram.com/piersonkeating https://facebook.com/piersonkeatingmusic Support this channel: Venmo: @piersonkmusic CashApp: @piersonkeating

Here’s a tune of been working on for a little while! DM me on Social Media to ask about my upcoming Group Lessons… Instagram: @piersonkeating Facebook.com/piersonkeatingmusic

Radha School of Music in Cedar Park, Texas, where I teach 2 days a week, has asked me to put up their Challenge of the Month! I also figured I'd extend it to my YouTube viewers as well! Here's one of my favorite exercises: 1) Learn a "lick" (or a few bars of a solo) you think is cool 2) Absorb it into your own playing! This is hands down one of the best ways to assimilate musical vocabulary in any style of music (not just jazz). Drop a comment and let me know how it works for you! I'm also offering virtual group and individual piano and music theory lessons - book a first free session with me here ⬇︎ ☞ https://calendly.com/consciousartistmentoring/freeintro I'm also offering mindset coaching for musicians or artists of any kind. If you want to expand your practice, your art, or want support creating anything at all, schedule your first free session here! ⬇︎ ☞ https://calendly.com/consciousartistmentoring/20minfree Connect with me on social: Instagram: @piersonkeating Facebook: https://facebook.com/piersonkeatingmusic Support this channel: Venmo @piersonkmusic Cash App $piersonkeating

"It Could Happen to You" - Jimmy Van Heusen, 1943. Arrangement by Pierson Keating. Recorded 2/26/23

...our first recording together, made on February 17, 2023. Miles Davis wrote "All Blues", and it was recorded for Columbia Records and released August 1959. We don't have the rights to sell our recording of this song, nor we do intend to. ⬇️ BOOK US FOR AN EVENT OR AT YOUR RESTAURANT OR VENUE: ⬇️ piersonkeatingmusic@gmail.com https://piersonkeatingpiano.com https://instagram.com/piersonkeating

If you're an improvising musician, you were influenced by Wayne Shorter. I didn't realize the impact this man and his music had on me until he passed on March 2, 2023. His emboldening musical courage, his contribution to one of the greatest jazz rock records of all time (Aja), and his willingness to constantly step beyond boundaries... thank you, Mr. Shorter. Rest in Power. Recorded on a Kawai upright.

🎹 Schedule a FREE intro lesson: https://calendly.com/consciousartistmentoring/freeintro 🤖 Request to join the Discord group for $7/month: https://discord.gg/qMJKrvqsTY How do you practice when it seems like there's no time? In this sample 15-minute practice session, I show you how it can be done. (Vince Guaraldi's "Skating" ⓒ 1965 Craft Records. Used for educational purposes only)

🎹 Schedule a FREE intro lesson: https://calendly.com/consciousartistmentoring/freeintro 🤖 Request to join the Discord group for $7/month: https://discord.gg/qMJKrvqsTY How do you practice when it seems like there's no time? In this sample 15-minute practice session, I show you how it can be done. (Vince Guaraldi's "Skating" ⓒ 1965 Craft Records. Used for educational purposes only)