Here’s a little story about how Elton John and Madonna helped me to accept myself…
Trying to tear down a wall during my songwriting retreat
I had a great start into the new year and spent the first weekend of 2019 at a songwriting retreat in the beautiful Waldviertel in Lower Austria. As you all know, I started to write my own songs a couple of months ago and I soon felt the need to get more insight, find out if I’m doing it right (hello fraud police…) and how other people tackle that task. Not many songwriting workshops are offered here in Austria though so I was really happy when I found this special weekend long offer at GEA Akademie.
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Planning my Instagram
I got lots of feedback in the last couple of months about me being so consistent in posting on Instagram everyday and with a new video every other day. Even though that is changing now a bit, I think my approach is still interesting to some of you.
To be able to make a good post everyday, you need to know in advance what you’re going to post, so you can prepare your pictures and videos, think about themes and get enough variation. Since some of you were interested, here’s how I do it (or did it).
Warning: If you’re not into lists and planning, you should probably stop reading now…
Ukulele Intro – Waterman
Here’s another Ukulele Intro. Today featuring “Waterman”…
Where I’ll be in 2019
Hello my lovely ukuleleists,
I thought I should give you little heads up on my ukulele travel and workshop plans this year (or at least for the first half of the year). These are the things I already booked:
Under Pressure
Here’s another comic that the lovely Planet Prudence did after I told her a little story from my ukulele life:
New Year – New Plans
Hi everyone,
I hope you all had a nice Christmas vacation. Some of you might have expected to see a new video on my Instagram today. Instead you just saw a (pretty) picture of me and my ukulele.
Now why is that?
“Wrapping it up” – Original Song
I wanted to write a Christmas song…
Turns out, that’s pretty hard to do. So the song kinda turned into an end of the year song.
The pressure to improve…
I’ll start with something honest and raw: I’m frustrated. I’m frustrated with my progress, with the feedback I get, with how my Instagram is dying down because I’m not producing good enough content,…
But mostly I’m frustrated with myself and how I try to please everyone else and not look after myself.
“The Hippopotamus in your life” – Original Song
Here’s another original song. It’s called “The Hippopotamus in your life” and I can imagine that the title alone might cause some questions, so I want to give you a little backstory to the song.
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