Hope everyone’s been practicing hard and vibing! I’ve been bed ridden sick for the past two weeks and hopefully next week we start recovering. I planned on jumping into the next feedback system right away but life is outplaying me atm. If I get better by early this week we’ll be doing our first feedback session on Saturday Nov 30th 7am AEST in the new zoom format :) Start of January I’ll be putting in a full time schedule into streaming, content and this community and we’ll have a good 3 months till my event schedule cranks up again. Missing jamming for y’all! Hopefully I’m back to at least 50% this week.

In case you missed the feedback Friday where I touched on this, there are big changes happening effective immediately. I'll give you the changes then the reasons why I'm making them. - Luan's School of Music will become free again - Feedback Friday will be available for free for all members with priority to higher level members - Feedback Friday will be once per month - No more private lessons can be won through leaderboards - Brand new musician course giving you the tools from being a noob to professional level skill will be released in the coming months. For starters I love sharing advice and feedback so Feedback Friday has been an amazing outlet for me and well received by the community. I find most members are posting once a month and consolidating everything into one day for me is better for my time. I'm launching a private coaching community which will give people 1 on 1 access. I'll be delivering a massive amount of value to paying students which will also allow me to do content full time. What's coming in the paid coaching community: - It will be a yearly commitment paid up front. - When you sign up you will get a 90 min 1 on 1 call to map your goals and discuss your practice strategy. (All lessons are recorded and delivered privately to you) - Every 3 months we will host a virtual concert followed by 1 on 1 check in calls (60min) to refine your practice strategy. - Weekly Group calls similar to feedback friday, you will submit videos but we will all be in a private call through zoom so you can respond in real time with each other. Times for these calls will most likely start between 7-8am AEST Sunday's (To make it easy for all timezones). - All group calls will be recorded and privately shared in our community in the classroom tab. - You will have access to dm me whenever you like with questions or post in community and I'll respond within 24 hours weekdays and 48 hours weekends. In full transparency I will be pricing this community in the future at $4449 USD/Year this a reflection of how much it would cost to get an hour of my time per week at less than half of my performance rate/hr (Which continues to increase). This is my personal goal to achieve by end of next year and I believe we deliver that level of value to students. When we launch it in Jan/Feb it will be $2999 USD, once affiliate links are available members in the paid community will receive 25% of the yearly subscription for anyone who signs up through their link. To start I will cap the community at 50 members with 100 members being the ultimate goal to cap at in the end.

So, a lot of stuff is going on in my life right now, my “adoptive grandpa” passed away yesterday, the one I posted a video about playing at his house, and this moment in my life is really just solidifying my love and need for music. That’s why yesterday’s post was a bit unusual as it wasn’t really me practicing something. I am going to end this posting everyday so I can focus more on some theory and applying it, you can check out last weeks review for a few more details, but I think this is gonna help a lot in the long run, and I’ll still be posting consistently on a weekly basis, and I’ll have some even cooler things I’ll be working on very soon. One thing that I really want to start working on more consistently is songwriting, and I feel that this is the perfect opportunity in my life to start, as there is much going on in my life to write about. I’m also gonna start journaling consistently so I can be more in tune with what I am thinking each day and to also have a time to write down ideas I have about songs that I don’t write down. I think when I reflect over it, it could inspire me at a later date. I really enjoyed this little challenge, and the framework behind why I decided to start this challenge in the first place has not left, just revamped into a better way I think. If I notice some negative affects of this, I may start to do this again, but my practice has definitely gotten more consistent. Thanks for everything and as always Happy Practicing!

Going forward I’ll be testing a new Q&A format, we’ll be doing same style as feedback Friday you’ll submit videos but we’ll be in a private zoom group call and upload the video after I’m curious what the best day/time is for everyone for our Q&A sessions, please vote on what’s a good time for you.