Everybody Speaks Music

"You know that's where I first fell in love it was like laying something down, and then figuring out what to go on top of it. I know there's lots of people out there that are doing that now and it's so much easier to do now. And I love that, I think that's awesome. And that I think that's just how I how I kept motivated and writing my own music." 

Friends welcome to Everybody Speaks Music S2E8. I am Mojo Kemp and I'm along with my good friend and brother Kris Schulz. Kris, it's hard for me to put in words, today's show, we have a very special man in my life. And I met him because of you, Mr. Michael Kraushaar. 

Mike is indeed a very special special guest to have on the show. And we think our listeners will not only enjoy hearing more behind the scenes on how somebody records and produces albums, because Mike is an incredible producer and engineer is also an insanely good musician. So he really brings the full package. 

But my friend Mojo, also, Mike is responsible for recording your album that's about to come out on March 15. And so there's a whole part of this episode that focuses on how you got to meet Mike and how your songs made it to the end of this process that our listeners are about to hear. 

Four years in the making for these five songs, Kris, I'm so proud of them. Why don't we let the interview tell the story. And we'll come back at the end, I have a special announcement for everybody.

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This is episode seven of a 10 part series that covers everything from composing your own music to improvisation, to learning other people's music, how to record how to jam with people, and everything else, you'll need to become a fully functioning musician and reach your dream of playing the music you truly want to play. I warn you now, if you're not interested in the mechanics of music, or have no interest in improvisation, skip this episode. But if you are interested in how to do the art of creating music off the top of your head, getting your ear in your hands, your heart and your soul, your mind your eyes, every single thing you've got connected. If you're as excited about improvisation as I am, I think you're gonna find this one a really fun, deep dive into the creative world of exercises that we can use to improve our hearing reaction times and the way we interact with other musicians and our very own music.

Welcome friends to Everybody Speaks Music S2E7, Vidushi's Wish, thank you so much for downloading the show!

Today Vidushi joins Mojo and Kris and shares with us how following the dream she had as a young girl in rural India led her on a journey to Canada.

It is a great, inspiring tale and it is our honour to bring it to you!

Friends, Welcome to Everybody Speaks Music (Bonus Edition). It's Mojo Kemp and I'm alongside Kris Schulz. 

In BC today, it's Family Day so we decided to take a day off and actually just hang out together. I had the privilege; everybody, Kris texted me and said, Hey, I'm taking the girls for a long walk if you want to come." Me and the wife, we jumped in the car and BAM! We were with the stars of Follow up Friday.

Type the words improvisation and brain into your Google Search. You'll be amazed at the endless studies that show just how much of the brain is being worked when musicians improvise and spontaneously create music they've never played before. If there's one topic that I love teaching more than any other thing, it's improvisation.

Today's episode, which is number 6 in a 10 part series, is geared towards anyone that's always been curious about improvisation, but hasn't felt like it was a part of their daily ritual yet.

Why should we improvise?

Welcome to Everybody Speaks Music S2E6. I'm Mojo Kemp, and I'm alongside with Kris Schulz. Thank you so much for downloading today's show. 

A show that is jam packed with useful information value bombs, nonstop. Game Changing, for sure. 

Everyone that's out there that's got any interest in keeping their body in good health while they're moving forward as a musician. This is the episode for you. Gabriella Minnes Brandes is a is a wizard of the Alexander Technique and neither of us knew much about it. And thanks to your great questioning, we found out a lot. 

When we play things that are hard and we perceive it to be hard. We put more attention into it, really finding a lot of opportunities to undo that.

Gaby's Website 

Link to a set of interviews I have with one of my students about researching music making (with young piano students) and Alexander Technique 

I often think back, what would it be like to have lived in an era where we couldn't hear music? Unless it was played live in front of us?

What would a musician like Johann Sebastian Bach, or Mozart, think about the technology we have at our fingertips these days.

Would they take such great care to write every note on manuscript paper so that their music could be preserved for centuries to come?

Would they have left us countless albums that we could go back and hear the masters at work? Wouldn't it be nice to know what Mozart actually sounded like, and not have to rely on a reproduction based off of a piece of paper.

Horizon School of Music 

If you really want to learn how to play, he says you need to know how to read music. And I went, Oh my God!!!

Friends, Welcome to Everybody Speaks Music, Season Two, Episode Five. I'm Mojo Kemp alongside with Kris Schulz. We are so happy that you downloaded today's show. 

Kris - "Okay, I this is the most self indulgent episode for me personally. And I was hoping it would be because I get to here a bit back to 23 years ago, when I started teaching Jim Rickbeil and Jim and I have been in each other's lives for 23 years now. And it was quite amazing. I was actually 23 At the age that I met him. So there's a lot of numerical magic moments going on here. But Jim, Jim has a really good recollection of how things went in the beginning. And I didn't recall any of that. So getting to hear from his own words, and through your guidance as a questionnaire. It was it was really fun to go back and go, I'm not like that at all anymore. And that was kind of what I was hoping to reveal. And partly in this episode was that the longer you do something, the more you learn about it. And for all of those of you out there that are teaching or doing anything new, you know, stick at it, even if you aren't doing the best work you're going to do in your life, it's still a starting point."

"Woke up in a parking lot. Air mattress has gone flat, the sun selecting targets for the shadows to attack. So make a visor with your hand and squint to where you're from. That lonely line of buildings you can block out with your thumb." 

Those are some of my favorite lyrics of all time and they're written by John K Sampson. It's a song called winter wheat, and it perfectly describes my recollection of being on tour in the prairies. So the first time I heard the song and heard those lyrics, I fall in love with them, because I've been there. And anyone who's from the prairies or has been through there can really relate to the content of that song. Who are some of your favorite lyricist? Stop and take a moment to think about why you like their lyrics and what they mean to you....

About three and a half years ago, Kris received an email from Rebecca Vincent. She runs a wonderful program in the Vancouver school board called LA LS, which we'll explain in the episode. And she said, Look, I've received some grant funding. Would you like to come in and help out with music in the classroom? And I jumped at the opportunity. That experience changed not just my life, but so many of the teachers on Empower Through Music. We are jazzed about this episode, Rebecca really inspires with her story of how she works with the kids, how we can all improve our self regulation, and how we can better support each other in our community. I think this episode is timely. I think it's so important that we share it. And I just can't wait for our listeners to get to hear Rebecca story and the kids and the LA LS program. You are certainly jazzed up about this you light up every time we talk about it. Let's share it with our listeners. Everyone. Welcome Rebecca Vinson to Everybody Speaks Music.

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