Jed Scott Music

After a busy week of working on many, many projects, Saturday is about reentering with family. Today, that meant sketching birds as they came to the bird feeder; my five-year-old did the coloring. Cardinal collaboration. A photo posted by Jed Scott (@jedscottmusic) on Nov 11, 2014 at 10:50am PST Take […]

I love teaching. I have a student who absolutely knows the meaning of subito thanks to my work, and every time I ask the Aces what it means, the smile on his face is gratifying. He’ll never forget. And most of my day-to-day musical activities are with students. But once […]

Today I get my one rehearsal for the Rockford Choirs Cabaret 2014.  Every year we audition student soloists on songs they have selected for a given theme: this year its “The Piano Men and Women” (singer-songwriter-pianists from any era). In other years, it’s been Disney, the ‘70s, Broadway, Gershwin, etc. Then […]

“A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places.” – Paul Gardener You can keep working on this arrangement forever. Improving it, tweaking it, honing it. (for “arrangement” read “painting”, “monologue”, “song”, “short story”, etc….) But it won’t be your last arrangement. It doesn’t need to be the […]

A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching When I drove roughly 1,000 miles to Massachusetts last weekend, there was a pin in a digital map and Google provided step-by-step directions to get there. We tend to think of career paths that way, […]

I loved watching my sons learn to walk. As long as they weren’t near anything too sharp or hard, I would let them fall and watch them get back up. Again and again and again. The fact is that walking is just falling and catching yourself. You need to learn […]

A Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching But the first step isn’t the hardest. On a thousand mile journey, you’ll have times when you can’t see the destination and can’t see how far you’ve come. You’ll desperately want to quit. Begin, yes. […]

Yesterday I talked about the power of spending ten minutes per day on something. P.S. Let me let you in on a secret. Practice is addicting. Once you get into a ten minute a day habit, you’re going to start stretching it to 15. 20. 30 or much more! Here’s […]

If you spent 6 hours a day for two work weeks on a skill, how much better would you get? That’s two weeks of 9-4, Monday-Friday with an hour for lunch. How good would you be at yo-yoing? How much more efficient would you be at washing dishes? Long division? […]