Quick tip 62 Business relationships
In the world we live in these days, you can buy publicity to certain extent. You can hire a company to spread your music around the place. But at the same time, you get what you pay for. Some of…
March 31, 2015
Chapter 5 “After the Storm”
My fifth album “After the Storm” is now officially out. I attached here a Spotify player so hit the play and listen while you read this post 🙂 At the end of 2014, when I was certain I was going…
Are you serious about career? Act like it!
Posted at March 30, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Music promotion
If you are a musician you often work in a bar and many of your friends work in a bar. Yep there are wild nights out. It is a hard-working environment, and when you work hard, you play hard. But…
How do you feel the song?
What happens when you play a song? Are you just playing the chords, singing the melody? Are you repeating a structure you practiced over and over again? Do the words mean anything in the moment? Do the chords mean anything?…
29th of March Blog update
Posted at March 29, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Blog posts
This week we had the first promise of spring, followed by a hail stone storm here in Dublin. You know that time of the year when you don’t know which jacket to put on 😀 But I also had a…
Dog House Video
Here’s a quirky little video of me and Brian rocking it out in the rehearsal room. The song is called “Dog House” and it is from my fifth album “After the Storm” that will be out on the 31st of…
Quick tip 60 Change something
Posted at March 27, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
When you work hard, it is too easy to get stuck in a routine. You do task for the sake of doing tasks instead of concentrating on the goal. I am guilty of this often. But I am also becoming…
Silence
This week’s song starts once again a new chapter in our journey. As my latest album “After the Storm” is coming out in few days, I am already working hard writing and recording the next one. I can already reveal…
Quick tip 59 Tell them about it
Posted at March 26, 2015 by
J.P. Kallio
in Quick tip
Remember the line in “If you build it, they will come” from a Kevin Costner film Field of dreams? This mentality in music business is a sure way to set your self to fail. There are endless mounts of wanna…
Hangover
I was asked to write this blog post (half jokingly) by a good friend of mine. The purpose here is to bring down some of the preconceptions about musicians. As I write this I am “recovering” from a night out….
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