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David Johnson is passionate about entrepreneurs and the businesses they own! He has spent most of his adult life serving entrepreneurs -- as a marketing strategist, consultant, and trainer. Along the way, he’s been increasingly asked to speak, write, and coach as well. He and his wife co-founded Grow The Dream in 1998 as Epiphany Marketing, and since 2010 they’ve been building a world-class content marketing team exclusively devoted to business owners and their teams. In 2015, he created the Grow The Dream Show with co-hosts Rod Thomson & Josh Muccio. Grow the Dream Show is a podcast devoted to helping business owners & their teams navigate the fast-changing and even mystifying world of growing your business with digital marketing, content marketing, and other online and offline marketing techniques.

1,000 True Fans

Learn more about what David Johnson is doing at: GrowTheDream.com

The Grow The Dream Podcast: GrowTheDream.com/show

Official Website: www.TylerSjostrom.com

Instagram: @TylerSjostrom

Twitter: @TySjoMusic

Facebook: www.facebook.com/tylersjostrommusic

Album available on iTunes & Bandcamp
Free Samplers on Noisetrade

If you would like to be considered for featured artist, email music submissions [email protected]

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Sam Rao is the Founder of PRACTICIA.com, a comprehensive mobile and cloud based platform that enables teachers to engage students in practicing like never before. Sam brings a long and diverse background in music performance, pedagogy, and entrepreneurship to PRACTICIA. He studied at composition and conducting at Oberlin Conservatory and at the Aspen Festival. He also co-founded his own music school and grew it into the largest in Northern Ohio.

• View your teaching as more than generic music lessons, but focus on ways that you can make real change in students
• Charge what you're worth, and what the value of what you are providing is worth. Think about the value of a music education, and don't sell yourself short
• Understand the value of what you as a teacher are providing
• Don't assume at-home practice is happening, or being done in an effective way
• Understand the value on holding your students accountable
• Put the most effort into creating the kind of experiences that students and their families will really remember for a long time

Learn more about Practicia at: www.practicia.com

Checkout more of Kendra's music at: www.kendramckinley.com

If you would like to be considered for featured artist, email music submissions [email protected]

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Chris Davis is the host of the popular podcast, Behind the Note. He is a trumpet player with a degree in Jazz Studies from Northern Illinois University. Chris has been a full-time musician for 9 years, and been involved in music for over half his life. He is the leader of a group called the Chris Davis Jazztet. Chris has a passion for educating others, whether it be about music, business or life.

"Love God. Love People" by Israel Houghton

"The Compound Effect" by Darren Hardy

Behind the Note Podcast with Chris Davis: www.behindthenote.com

Checkout Ryan's music at: www.ryanrichkomusic.com

Shownotes: modernmusician.co/006

Why is Instagram so great?

Why is Instagram Less Cluttered?

Instagram has worked very hard to build a platform that discourages spammers, and encourages real, personal interaction.

3rd Party Integrations

This is an opportunity

This make users far more likely to take note of you, than they would be on another platform, such Twitter

You have to fight less to be noticed

Why should I be on Instagram?

Killer Instagram Profile

Step back, and consider...

Why we follow

Know them personally

Celebrity

An engaging personality

Besides people we already know, and celebrities, this is the number one reason people are followed on Instagram. These pictures are window into your personality, so make sure you are choosing pics that fit this theme, and that really do let your personality shine through.

Pictures of a subject / theme

Beautiful Pictures

Useful advice through pictures

You can get free access to my Instagram for Musicians video course by reviewing the podcast in iTunes, taking a screenshot of your review, and emailing it to [email protected]

Ryan is a composer for film and video games. He moved to Los Angeles to be a session guitarist, but began working on films by accident, getting his first job scoring a student short film after failing an acting audition. Soon after, scoring to picture became a new passion of his, making a career change from a session musician to a full time composer. In 2015, Ryan won a Global Music Award for his first video game score "Telepath Tactics." The game and soundtrack are receiving favorable reviews from the press and independent game community. Ryan has done a lot of work for a variety of mediums, including Yoga instructional DVDs, games, film and TV.

A Composer's Guide to Game Music by Winifred Phillips

All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald Passman

Most underrated composer: Thomas Newman

Desert Island Score Choice: The Last Samurai by Hans Zimmer

Checkout more of John's music at: www.johnwsnyder.com

If you would like to be considered for featured artist, email music submissions [email protected]

Jennifer Foxx is a piano teacher based out of Pheonix-area, Arizona. Jennifer's personal mission as a teacher is to provide quality music education to each of her students. When students learn from Jennifer, they learn much more than just how to play the piano. For Jennifer, music is history, science, foreign language, math, and art. Jennifer incorporates all those facets of music into her teaching. Jennifer has over 20 years of music education experience, and is dedicated to the success of each of her students. She also runs a popular blog at FPSResources.com - where she blogs about tools and techniques that piano teachers can and should be using in their lessons.

FPSResources: www.fpsresources.com

Teachers Pay Teachers: www.teacherspayteachers.com

Checkout Andrew's music at: www.andrewgerlicher.com

Shownotes at www.modernmusician.co/003

Josh Wright is a classical concert pianist. His self-titled album topped the Billboard Classical Traditional chart just three weeks after its release in 2011. If you go to his website, you’ll see that Josh has won TONS of classical piano competitions, all over the world, appeared with many symphonies, and has released 5 studio albums. In addition to performing, Josh is passionate about teaching. He has broadened his studio through online lessons where he teaches lessons to students on five different continents. He has created a free online piano instructional series to assist piano students of all ages and abilities with various aspects of technique and musicality.  These instructional videos as well as performances by Josh can be found on his website and YouTube Channel.

Website: www.joshwrightpiano.com

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Checkout Dan's music at: soundcloud.com/jandones

Bio:

Andrew Gerlicher offers high-end musical solutions to both amateur and professional media enthusiasts worldwide. With years of classical training under his belt, Andrew specializes in creating hyper-realistic midi mockups of various styles of music for a wide range of visual and performing media. Using state-of-the-art hardware and software, Andrew is able to work with clients from all across the globe, accommodating their unique stylistic tastes. Andrew also composes original music for media and the stage, and is also passionate about music education.

Takeaways:

Embrace the traditional study of music - don’t avoid it

Write/practice every day. Whether you feel inspired or not, you cannot imagine the progress you can make this this sort of consistency

Improvising, try to always make one note “wrong,” to promote creativity in your playing

Keep theory and orchestration books close-by

YouTube Advice

Follow the wave of a trend

Use keywords and tags that are applicable to your video

Upload good stuff!

Recommended book: “The Technique of Orchestration” by Kent Nemman

Website: www.andrewgerlicher.com

Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/andrew-gerlicher-music

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6zSbU6eyhUb8NURHH0Yy_g

Full Show-Notes at www.modernmusician.co/001

The Modern Musician Show is a podcast to help musicians understand how they can lead fulfilling and financially successful careers in today's ever-changing music industry.