Author: Sean Shea
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Thank You For Your Song
A love letter to soul-centered artists—because your art matters more than ever. tl;dr: In an age of AI-generated content and creative overwhelm, soulful art might seem like a whisper in the storm. But your song—the one only you can write—still carries a power nothing artificial can touch. This is a love letter to that kind…
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When the Map Doesn’t Fit the Music in You
What If the Map You Were Given Wasn’t Meant for You? If you’ve ever taken music lessons, chances are you were handed a certain roadmap.It might’ve looked something like this: For some people, that path works just fine.But it didn’t work for me when I took my first music lessons, and maybe it didn’t work…
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Say it, then play it
Say it, then play it One of the most important principles I come back to again and again in my teaching is something I call “say it, then play it.” I didn’t make it up. I learned it from several of my own musical mentors over the years—each of them coming from very different musical…