This week I'm excited to share my conversation with Joshua Grange. A studio and touring multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, and audio engineer, originally from Los Angeles, now living in Nashville TN. As a musician, he has toured and recorded with Beck, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Nicks, Neil Young, James Taylor, The Chicks, kd lang, Dwight Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, among many others, on various instruments, including pedal and lap steel guitar, electric, baritone, and acoustic guitar, keyboards, mandolin, and bass guitar. He owns and operates the studio Resistor, Nashville, TN. In this episode, we’re celebrating the launch of his new online music teaching site for beginners through advanced students., The Echo Guild dot com. Joshua has created a system that harnesses everyone’s unique genius, and he meets music students where they are. He offers a ton of value, including a free creativity pack and a music-making tool called The Kodia that lets anyone create music, even if they don’t know how to play an instrument. I’ve started The Foundations course to work on my ear training, and I’m excited to work through this material.
What we covered:
Tweetable Quotes:
“I love being happy as much as the next person does. But if you set happiness as your goal, you’re setting yourself up for failure. The key is fulfillment, not happiness.”
“People aren’t afraid of failing so much that they’re being afraid of being a failure.”
“All people need is permission. They just need somebody to go “yeah, go ahead. You can do this.”
“Once you realize that failure doesn’t mean that you’re a failure, it gives people the license to act more broadly”
“It can be a little overwhelming. But if you take things really slow again, just starting out real simple (and) childlike.. You’ll find it immediately..
“Learning is a lot of failures.”
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