bined with effort. I actually went gluten free for one of my Italian tours but it does take a lot of effort. Italians are perfectly happy to eat bread and pastries for breakfast, pizza for lunch and pasta for dinner. When you’re at home it means planning ahead. Juicing for instance is something that’s not difficult to take with you when you’re on the run. Plus you can make up a ton at a time to stock up.
Technology Is Important Specifically To Your Career As A Musician, Any Advice For Young Musicians Looking To Be Successful?
Always keep an open mind to learning.
Lynda.com is one of
many learning sites that are very reasonably priced to keep you up with empowering apps. It’s important to anyone who wants a career in music to have many branches of abilities to offer in order to stay afloat. Drummers than can program are going to be a lot more valu- able than ones that can’t.
What Are Your Thoughts On Guitar Education And How This Relates To Your Career As A Musician (Multiple Income Streams)?
Guitar is just the instrument that allows your musical expres-
sion. Being able to play to a certain level is just step one. Being able to play in a band is a whole other skill which takes time. Skills like being able to read and write and record music are not imperative but make you stronger and more employable, so why not dig into it all? Everything you learn empowers you even more. I’ve made money from a dozen skills beyond just playing which really helps in dry spells. It’s also good to constantly be changing it up in the creative arts. I spent 6 months in Cirque Du Soleil’s “Zumanity” show. I loved it the first 3 months as it was all new but I couldn’t wait to leave by the end. Cirque shows go 10 times a week with the same music. Even this last summer, I did around 50 clinics, seminars, and concerts across the USA. If I was only doing one event it wouldn’t be as good as mixing it up.
How Have The Changes In The Music Industry Over The Last Decade Affected You, If At All?
I’m much less likely to spend my own money to record another
record when people can get it for free. In fact I currently have zero motivation and have moved my focus to education and live playing. If or when I start to record again, I’ll release a tune at a time instead of waiting until I have an hour of material. It’s much more manage- able financially and psychologically. But I now understand that the money comes from sponsorship just like free TV, so my thoughts have moved toward developing a Youtube channel, writing books, collecting email addresses like any other business out there. Plus you have to offer some goods for free in order to get people into your zone and coming back. Music is already free so you have to come up with another product. I heard a statement that I really resonate with. If you want to make a million dollars, help a million people. I’m in giving back mode and am more focused on what I’ve learned to date to share than solely trying to get attention for my music.
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Any further plans for “Self-Empowerment for the Modern
Musician” seminar after this current tour such as a DVD edition? I have a million thoughts to expand it which includes doing a
streamed seminar this winter at some point. I’m still researching how to make it happen but the info will be posted on my site as soon as I nail it down. There will also be a book and DVD at some point. I was so glad to be able to tour it last summer and get feedback from people. It gave me a lot to think about in creating the next chapter and refining what I did already.
Thomas Amoriello is currently teaching guitar at Reading Fleming
Intermediate School and Hunterdon Academy of Arts in Flemington, NJ. He is a graduate of Rowan University and Shenandoah Conserva- tory and has presented guitar workshops for various music organizations including the NJMEA, Guitar Foundation of America and Philadel- phia Classical Guitar Society. He is the author of the children’s picture book, A Journey To Guitarland With Maestro Armadillo to be published by Black Rose Writing in April 2016. You can follow Tom on Twitter @
www.twitter.com/armadilloguitar.
Matthew S. Ablan is an elementary music educator in Charlotte,
North Carolina. He is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook and The Cleve- land Institute of Music as well as holding a Masters in Music Education from Case Western Reserve University. Ablan’s list of teaching credentials include having served as adjunct instructor of classical guitar studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA and maintaining a successful pri- vate guitar studio for close to two decades. Most recently he was a guest lecturer at the 2012 Guitar Foundation of America International Fes- tival and Competition in Charleston, SC and is the author/founder of The Guitar Teaching Blog. For more information about Matthew please visit:
www.matthewablan.com
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