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bride, Lindsay, who has been an
encouragement to him in these pursuits.
Why is it that some musicians get discouraged
and give up too soon?
Randon: I know a lot of composers in the
trailer industry, and even for the ones that are
super-successful, self-doubt is just a beast. I
mean, these guys that I have really looked up
to are posting things online like, "Ah, I kind of
did this track and it doesn't sound great. What
do you guys think?" When those thoughts
start to creep into your brain, you've just got to
say, "Stop it! "
"When I play a big piano thing within
a trailer or something, I can be so lazy
about it and record it four measures
at a time, and I can go back and fix it
when I'm done."
-Randon Purcell
But the other thing is, so many musicians are
really bad about taking criticism from others.
Even the ones who say, "I really want your honest feedback." But as soon as they get it, they
don't want it anymore, right? Maybe what
they really mean is, "I honestly want you to tell
me how great I am." [laughter]
So I think a huge part of it is really just dropping your ego at the door. When I started
pitching to TAXI, it really steamed me when I
got rejected. That's just the bottom line. No
one likes getting rejected, but you can sit there
and dwell on it or you can go, "Hey, what did
they tell me? Why did it suck?" Well, not that
TAXI ever tells you it sucks; they're nice about
it. But you know what? The libraries aren't so
nice if and when they give feedback. There are
a lot of rude people out there that will just blatantly tell you how terrible it is without giving
you any advice on making it better.
So use TAXI, man. These people are nice, and
they give you really great advice on how to fix
it, and you've just got to drop your ego at the
door and take that advice and try the next
time. And then they'll tell you, "Hey, you fixed
like 50% of it, the other 50% still kind of
blows, but you're getting there." And just keep
doing it.
Keith: I think a common thread too is when
we first started submitting to TAXI, they're
like, "Oh yeah, I can do solo piano. Yeah, I can
do that," And you can't, so you've got to go
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with your bread and butter in the beginning,
and then expand our palette. Once you've
started to with bread and butter then you start
doing... "Wow, I'm doing calypso."
Marcus: Going back to your question, I
remember my first year I was in a room with
Russell Landwehr, and he said something that
really struck home. And over the years I've
talked to other people about it to see if it's just
us. But Russell said that it's called imposter syndrome, where musicians and artists and
composers sort of always underneath everything feel like someone's going to figure out
that you're a phony. Like one day you are all
going to realize that I'm not as good as you
think I am. And Russell was talking about that
and it was just so deep, because it's true. We
are all sort of fighting that thing about living
up to what people think, or what we think. It's
like there's this imposter syndrome. And the
musicians that do quit early often give in to
that. But if we always feel like we're going to
get discovered at being fake, like someone's
going to find out.
Man, oh man, we've got five minutes left. Do you
guys in the audience have any questions for
them? OK, I'm gonna come down the aisle.
done. So every now and then I'll still sit down
and try to play an old Beethoven song or something just for fun, but my 15-year-old is a
much better player than I am now so it's kind
of gotten where I don't want to play so much.
It's a little embarrassing. But if you're doing
that for part of your living and playing for
clients, that's going to just be part of the deal,
you've got to keep the craft up. It's no different
than us practicing mixing or anything else, it's
just a different instrument.
Maybe split your effort and realize that you are
like a fine artist. Going back to the fine artist and
the house-painter analogy-if the jazz guy is in
the room that hates me saying this, please don't
send me any more emails. [laughter] He despises
me every time I say this, but you are a world-class
piano player. And again, I don't want to make
cues sound like there's some lesser form, but you
don't need to be at this level to do some kinds of
cues. So you can do both.
Audience Member: Terrell, you said you work
an 8 to 5 day job. And you said that your wife
is super-supportive. Maybe I missed it, but did
you actually say when you make time for
music? Is it scattered all over the place, or do
you set certain times throughout the day?
Audience Member: Hi. You guys are amazing. Really, I am humbled to the point of being
a little humiliated at this point. But you guys,
you've got this energy, you've got talent to
come into this thing. One of my issues is, do
any of you actually play an instrument that
you have to practice every day? One of my
time things is for me to maintain the heart of
what I do, playing piano. And I have to take an
hour to warm up every day, and an extra hour
to actually work on all the stuff just to maintain my skills so when someone calls me, I can
play the way they expect you to play. And so
one of my issues is weaving that into the other
things. You know, we don't have any kids, but
still I find that an hour or two taken out of
actually doing other music... What would you
suggest? Don't tell me to get a job. [laughter]
Terrell: Both. Usually a lot of writing occurs
on my lunch break. I actually got a song signed
for a brief, and I wrote it on my lunch break.
So you have to find those little pockets of time
somewhere, because I don't have... In the
evenings, I try to cater to her, you know, and
Randon: You know, earlier on I grew up playing classical piano, and I did practice for an
hour, hour and a half every day. But I'll be
honest, it's a little different if you're playing
for clients and they need you to be a really
great player, that's kind of a different story,
and that's going to be necessary when you do
that. I always say-and my mother would kill
me, because she was my piano teacher for 15
years-I'm a terrible player ever since I started
composing, because I started writing one part
at a time instead of a piano piece that I had to
learn and play. And even when I play a big
piano thing within a trailer or something, I can
be so lazy about it and record it four measures
at a time, and I can go back and fix it when I'm
Randon: One other thing I'll point out: Your
phone is your friend. I have my iPhone with
me all the time, and if I'm busy working and I
don't have time to switch over and work on
music, I just pull out my little iPhone recorder
and I hum in whatever thing I've got going on
in my head, or I drum on it, whatever. It
sounds like garbage, obviously. It might take a
few times and you're like, "What was the hell
was I thinking?" But I use those all the time; I
bring that up every time I go in the studio, and
I'm like, "What was I thinkin' earlier?"
"If I ever give up on something, it
happens within the first 10 minutes."
-Keith LuBrant
do the real-life things-help with dishes, fold
laundry. And on Thursday evenings she's out
of the house, so that's my time to write or
record, even on weekends as well. So I find
those pockets of time, but also the lunch
break, where I have an hour. In an hour I can
do a lot.
Audience Member: Marcus, I think you're
the one who brought this to my attention, but
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