TAYLOR ROSS™|MUSIC

Up at 5 Tea Journal; Goals, Grateful, Values. x3 James Clear Meditate 20 Bike ride 3:51 pace/splits for 1 Hour. Home Composed 4.5 HOURS! minimum. Looking like I’ll hit the Aug 1st DL for completion of the music. But the work itself will still need notated in Sibelius along with all final editing; dynamics, tempi,…

Gotta make it quick Behind Schedule and I have to read for an hour before I go to bed. How to Sell Your Art Online: Live a Successful Creative Life on Your Own Terms by Cory Huff One of my core values is Excellence, by focusing on my weakest areas that need improvement I’ll be…

Best day in a long time. Still working on waking up earlier. Bike ride 1 hr, good splits. Meditation and yoga 20 minutes each. No coffee, Loads of tea. Composition studies, Four hours with a break for eat. Not totally focused composition but still, Notating in Sibelius. Developing buildup. Figuring out specifics in notation and…

Here we go again, Woke up at 8. I didn’t have a plan But its later than I would have liked it to be. Trying to reset schedule, cant give up. Coffee unexpectedly with a friend got me back on track. Bike Rides work better for me than running. As soon as I got on…

Schedules messed up. Taking a week off from working out is terrible. But I don’t want shin splints. Back on Monday. For now; Composed 1.5 hours minimum today. The flute work Tet’ra is over 4 minutes which is golden. Gotta notate it all out and then worry about intricacies like technique, expression, tempo, and dynamic…

What else can I say? Pain uncertainty and constant work. -Phil Stutz I can think, I can wait, I can fast. -Siddhartha, Herman Hesse One year sober, Spent in the best way. Having a dear friend spending the time to tattoo the previous two quotes in red on my forearms where I can see them…

Composed for 3 hours Got the climax and the ending sorted out to my flute solo, at 3:48 seconds long it still needs some of the build up to the climax extended so I’m hoping I can get it to about 4:30 by the time it’s done. No exercise, no yoga, no practice. Didn’t run…

Falling out of schedule. Don’t know when I got up oh ya 7:50am Coffee at 8am at Bikes & Beans Honestly, I probably needed some socializing outside of, The Boise Institute for Buddhist Studies. Got a banged up knee so I wont be running tomorrow, Which sucks because I’m just starting to crave it and…

Up late Start again tomorrow Need to eliminate caffeine, like for real for real. Waited around all day for century link guy and used it as excuse not to do anything. But I did do some meal prep, which is always a pre curser for me not being; Fat Taylor. I’m very good friends with…

I couldn’t sleep until 3:30am last night And I didn’t even just get up and compose, like a normal insane artist. Opportunity lost. Up around 8am So exhausted. I can barely remember this morning. Looking at my google history, it started on instagram – then moved swiftly to researching the different English translations for Herman…