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Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts #35

November 4, 2021 by Josh Frets

RIFFS: Anderson .Paak’s name has a dot. But why? The dot stands for detail. It’s a reminder to himself to pay attention to detail, because “people take you as seriously as you take yourself.” Oftentimes we’re in such a hurry to develop our badassery that we forget it’s the sum of paying attention to thousands […]

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Riff Recs #6

March 3, 2021 by Josh Frets

Riffs Recs Friends of friends The Main Squeeze covered Pink Floyd’s Have A Cigar. And I don’t want to be hyperbolic here, but: Guitarist Max Newman plays maybe the best guitar solo I’ve ever heard. If you’re pressed for time, skip ahead to where it starts at 3:26. It’s five minutes well spent. Charts I […]

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Riff Recs #5

February 24, 2021 by Josh Frets

Riffs Recs I’ve really been digging on Jay Leonard J’s YouTube channel. He’s a great player, and this one in particular resonated with me: My Advice For Mastering Your Instrument In it, he touches on these six ideas: 1. Play With The Recording We tend to play super fast for the easier bits, but then […]

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Riff Recs #4

February 17, 2021 by Josh Frets

Hey Y’all, Hope you’re staying warm this week. We got lucky and left Austin just before the storm hit. Here’s this week’s Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts. ——— Riffs: ——— Recs: In this vid, Mary Spender asks Tomo Fujita, “what do you think people are missing when teaching themselves?” His answers: “mumbling” not recording themselves […]

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Riff Recs #3

February 10, 2021 by Josh Frets

Hey Y’all! It’s Wednesday, which means… Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts Riffs: ——— Recs: Keep The Fun was an attempt to articulate something I couldn’t quite perceive. I was blindly groping towards an idea that was just outside my reach. But then my friend Nicholas sent me an amazing article, and the cartoon lightbulb above my […]

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Riff Recs #2

February 3, 2021 by Josh Frets

Riffs, Recs, Charts, & Smarts Riffs: Building A Second Brain is the most buzzed-about course on the internet. Its key idea is PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives. If you don’t have clarity on the difference between Projects and Areas, productivity will always be an uphill battle. “Fitness” is an Area. “Run a 5k” is a […]

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Riff Recs #1

January 31, 2021 by Josh Frets

Hey Y’all! I don’t know about you, but I can’t keep up with the flood of books, podcasts, videos, & articles that get recommended in the newsletters I subscribe to. They linger in my inbox & make me feel kinda guilty. You seem more interested in the synthesis of what I’m consuming than you are […]

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