I, like all creatives, fall victim to “The resistance”, as I talked about in this post. Part of that resistance comes from the several times I have suffered from a creative block. As a Composer, I ideally imagine always being able to go into my studio or sit down at my desk and just create […]
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Read Part 1: Here The second part of Stephen Pressfield’s book talks about becoming a Pro in The War of Art. Professionals don’t care about how they feel, they constantly show up. Pressfield talks about people in the military being good at “being miserable”, knowing that the work just needs to get done. Professionals are
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I started producing when I was about 15 years old. I may tell this story later, but I thought I wanted to be an EDM rapper, but I recorded my voice once, and realized I wasn’t meant for that at all. But I loved the process of trying to recreate the beat and making the
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I recently started reading The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield. I think starting this book could not have come at a better time for me. This book talks about all of the self-sabotaging habits that creatives go through in making their work, and gives us solutions. And since I’ve been promoting Bad with Titles
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I’ve done a lot of musical experiments in my journey as a musician. In fact, a lot of my musical journey is me seeing something and being so interested that I try to make a version of that thing. In my first EP, Bad With Titles (Spotify, Apple Music), it was the song “Cold”. I
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Preface: This is based on an older post I wrote years ago when Listen was originally released In 2020, there was a lot of struggle, drama, and everything else going on in the world. I like to listen to a lot of podcasts and radio shows that talk about a lot of the topics that
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Ever since I was 4 years old, I’ve wanted to be a musician. I watched my Uncle play in the church, I saw musicians, singers, and rappers perform on stage. I learned about all of the European classical composers and studied much of their music. After all of that work for the last 20+ years,
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I’m not sure how blog posts open because I’m new to this. Anyway, Hey, what’s up! I’m Jordan (A.KA. CJ or CJ Arc). This is my first blog post, and this blog will serve as a Journal for many things I’ve learned in my musical journey. A little bit about me, I’m a nerd, I