One of the first experiences I remember as a little kid I now realise was FLOW...

What do you need to make a piece of music that "lands"?

Too often, how we're taught to make music misses the MOST crucial aspect of what we're doing...

Despite the common assumption that both "inspiration" and "discipline" are GOOD... After 30 years of making music and helping others make music, I've come to a startling realisation: Requiring either/both is often a sign of an unhealthy, unsustainable creative process.

THAT time of the year is fast approaching again...

In the creative process (and the Music Machine system - which reflects the stages of the creative process) - in the second stage, "Discovery" - people often get lost. Here's why - and why Discovery is a crucial stage of any creative process. Not only musically but psychologically...

Imagine there's an obvious obstacle that EVERY ARTIST experiences daily - but NO ARTIST does anything to overcome. Wouldn't that be weird?

Your inner critic is useful. Until you let it become a tyrant...

What's REALLY holding you (and me) back in your music?

Why can finishing music be so difficult?

Yes, believe it or not, you COULD. And when you believe you could? That's when you start solving problems!

You don't have to believe in yourself when you believe in growth...

Today, we will have a conversation about the downside of quantity - which is also an upside.This is the reason why (while it's frustrating at the time) I'm HAPPY to create an avalanche of crap songs...

I've not recorded a PodWalk for four months! Let me explain the (very good) reasons why...

This season I'm podwalking about 3 Role Theory. This is a model I've developed to quickly diagnose where a client might have a problem in their creative process. Today I'll introduce you to "The Connector" who's got a bad rap that I don't believe is warranted...

This season I'm podwalking about 3 Role Theory. This is a model I've developed to quickly diagnose where a client might have a problem in their creative process. Today I'll introduce you to "The Constructor"...

This season I'm podwalking about 3 Role Theory. This is a model I've developed to quickly diagnose where a client might have a problem in their creative process. Today I'll introduce you to "The Conjuror. Get your wands out...

This season I'm podwalking about 3 Role Theory which is a model I've developed which allows me to quickly diagnose where a client might have a problem in their creative process. But to understand what the different roles are within this model, we need to understand how we make ideas real and where they come from...

As I suspected, what was a "brief" hiatus became an extended one. Find out why and what you can expect from my various podcasts moving forward...

I'm making a slight change of plan... (Don't worry normal PodWalk service will resume very shortly.) To listen to my "Final Countdown Problems and Insights" series over on The Album podcast... Here's a playlist of all the episodes where I share the avalanche of problems and resulting insights I'm getting slapped with over the final week: ⏱️Final Countdown Problems and Insights

3 Role Theory is a model which helps you understand yourself within the creative process. As a model it's useful because it's much simpler than reality...

Because of album finishing things (😱) AND a secret project I'm working on (🤩), just a short little PodWalk today about the coming Season 5...

This is the final PodWalk of Season 4 where I've been talking about (supposedly) irrelevant subjects. So let's have a conversation about WHY I call siloing of information and expertise "one of the great evils of the world. Because "evil" is a strong word - but I do use it on purpose...

Yesterday I had an experience which changed my entire world. I've been using ChatGPT3 for a while for various (fairly menial) tasks, but decided to try out ChatGPT4 to see how much it had improved... IT BLEW MY MIND. That doesn't mean it's all good news of course. There's a lot that's problematic and downright scary about what AI could mean for creators and our culture. But with the massive improvement of GPT4 - I've already found a couple of creative ways to use it to make a much better business, much better music and a much better creator... And here's The Album podcast where I go much deeper into specifically how ChatGPT4 helped me uncover a big problem with my album: The Album podcast: My Jarvis for Music 🦾

Continuing our "Destroy the Silo" season let's talk about how stories permeate everything we do. And how the structure of many stories is a reflection of a fundamental pattern you can notice EVERYWHERE... Here's the specific "The Album" episode I mention: How could a single note MEAN something?