3 Wrist & Forearm Resets That Helped Me Keep Playing
Just three years into playing bass, I was mid-set at a dance-party gig when a sharp, shooting pain tore up my fretting hand and along my forearm. My fingers locked. I looked at my brother and…
Detours Aren’t Endings: Grief, Homecoming, and “Loch Lomond”
for anyone walking into the unknown this week—you’re braver than you feel. may this melody meet you where you are. The Years That Took—and the Years That Gave I took a hiatus from playing the…
Make Your Bass Solos Melodic (Stop Sounding Like Scales)
I know which scales fit which chords. But for the longest time, my solos still sounded like I was just running up and down scales. Here’s the shift that made all the difference: I started…
Breaking Old Habits on the Bass: New Ways to Land on the Tonic
There’s a comfort in landing on the tonic the same way every time. It’s reliable. It’s safe. It works. For me, that default resolution shows up most when the chord changes are flying by and I…
The Email That Reminded Me Why I Create Bass Content
There are days when creating feels easy. The ideas flow, the fingers cooperate, and the camera seems to catch the right moments. This wasn’t one of those days. I’d spent the whole day with my…
I Used to Overcomplicate Every Tune. This Time, I Didn’t.
There was a time I’d try to throw in a tritone sub anytime I could. Now I ask: does this actually feel right? The Shift: From Complexity to Connection If you had heard me play ten years ago,…
Forklift Special: My First Proud Chess Moment in Years
I started playing chess when I was five. Not competitively. Not for trophies. Just… because I loved it. Chess was one of the few safe spaces I had growing up. It was quiet, structured, and…
When You Only Have Time at 2AM to Create
I used to create when I had time. Now, I create when I find time. Sometimes that means 2AM—when the house is finally quiet, the world stops asking things of me, and I can sit with my…
The Creative Systems I Needed Didn’t Exist… So I Built Ayumio
For the longest time, I believed the bottleneck in my content workflow was time. But it turns out, it was energy. Energy to ideate. Energy to write in my own tone. Energy to stay consistent.…
Stepping Into the Unknown: I Built My First Web App (and I’m Pitching It to Y Combinator)
A few months ago, I opened a blank code editor, not knowing where it would take me. I’m not a traditional software engineer. I didn’t go to school for this. But I had a vision — something I…
5 AI Prompting Techniques for Multi-Passionate Creators
The AI Playground for Multi-Passionates When I first started using ChatGPT, I kept things super simple—basic one-liner prompts like “Summarize this” or “Give me content ideas.” I didn’t really…
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