Johan Eckman aka "Sleepy Songs" is a composer based out of Malmö, Sweden. As the moniker suggests, he specializes in relaxing and...

Consolation is a word we use after someone has experienced a loss. We can console one another with comforting words. We can console...

1 - Don't try to sound like someone else. It's inevitable that everyone's music will resemble someone else's. We are all influenced by...

I've written before about overcoming writer's block. My favorite piece of advice on the subject is to "just keep writing." But what...

In my last post, I mentioned the author C.S. Lewis. In his autobiographical work Surprised by Joy he talks about an experience he had...

When I was growing up there were a couple of movies that would air on TV about once every year. One was The Sound of Music and the other...

There are nearly as many ways to compose as there are composers. Sometimes I write by just noodling around the piano until something...

I remember wading through a sea of people in Namba train station still dazed from the ridiculously long flight across the Pacific. I met...

With a new year coming up soon I figured I would get a head start on my resolutions. These are ideas that I have either benefited from...

One of the most popular tourist spots in Kyoto, Japan is Arashiyama. It means "storm mountain" in Japanese, but whenever I've gone there...

If you've ever started a new venture, if you've ever moved to the big city, if you've ever begun a new life you'll understand how I felt....

I sometimes wonder if I will ever get to the point where I can do music full time? If I only ever made money on Spotify the answer is......

You've probably seen the hashtags or reddit threads where people post their "shower thoughts." Many of them are quite funny, but there...

When it comes to most-listened-to musical genres pop music is still king. But the music we now refer to as "classical" was actually sort...

Several years ago, I had a very humorous boss who used to always ask us the same few questions. This would come at times when you were...

In the fall of 2001, just a month after the attacks of 9/11, I boarded a plane bound for Osaka, Japan. It would be the first of many...

It's almost officially summer and I'd like to begin it with a review of a wonderfully appropriate piece by Ben Crosland called "First Rain o

Modern classical music has become a respected genre in the last ten years or so thanks to the likes of Nils Frahm and Ólafur Arnalds. The...

Many composers and artists speak of the ideas or experiences that inspire them to create. But often when I sit down to the piano I find...