{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep. 16 Todd Reynolds: Digital Fiddler, Global Netizen, Reinvention Coach and Cultural Devotee","description":"My guest today is Digital Fiddler, Global Netizen, Reinvention Coach and Cultural Devotee, Todd Reynolds. How\u2019s that for an into title! What can I say about this episode\u2026Todd is the ultimate storyteller, both through his music and his words. While you\u2019re going to get some seriously technical information during this interview, it\u2019s also like, \u201cstory time with friends\u201d. Todd\u2019s going to give you a straight up masterclass on how broadcast quality microphones work, you\u2019re going to hear his awesome Jascha Heifetz impression\u2026your welcome. And if you\u2019re afraid of improvising on your instrument, he\u2019s going to give you an awesome hack use can use today, right now, in your practice room. And if you\u2019re like me and dislike the term \u201cclassical music\u201d Todd is going to explain what HE likes to call, "present music\u201d, and how successful performance is directly related to mindfulness, and even meditation. Oh, and one more thing\u2026I\u2019ve got a brand new training coming up in two weeks, so you\u2019ll want to listen all the way to the end. OK\u2026Let\u2019s dig in to my conversation with Todd Reynolds. About Todd I, Todd Reynolds, am a solo classical violinist gone horribly wrong. I started on a violin made of a standard elementary school ruler taped onto a Grape Nuts box and grew up playing all the sonatas and concertos that all the other kids did. I played in church by my father\u2019s side for what seemed like an eternal adolescence, and by some stroke of good fortune, found myself in one of the last classes of the great Jascha Heifetz where he counseled me to sell insurance for the sake of my own happiness. In college, I became completely enamored with playing the music of living composers - it got me completely hooked on non-historic ways of thinking about music, stretching me beyond my planned trajectory. But then I won an audition and completely dropped out of school. In my third year of playing Principal Second Violin in the Rochester Philharmonic, I broke. Since the very moment I quit my job, I\u2019ve reinvented myself four times, at least. First as Broadway musician, then as the creator of a new kind of amplified string quartet, then as a \u2018composer in the woods\u2019 recording artist, and finally, refocusing as an educator - not that that\u2019s anywhere near the end of things. Now, and for the past 25 years, I\u2019ve called myself a hybrid musician. I play with some of my long time idols - singer\/songwriters, global musicians, minimalists, electronica artists, rock stars, New Music heroes, classical music heroes - I count them all my friends, colleagues and collaborators. I record, teach, and perform with my studio onstage and off, study Indian music, jazz, music programming, psychology, and mindfulness to varying degrees as disciplines. I\u2019m as much a student as a teacher. That will never change. If you ever find the opposite? Run. Four years ago, I felt the industry changing yet again. CDs - gone, Broadway jobs - gone, commercial work - gone. My health was starting to go as well. My partner, Isabelle, and I moved to a beautiful place in the country, to pull it all together and build a community for teaching and supporting those seeking to do the same - to develop the tools for reinvention and expansion, and to look deeper into what it all means to be a musician today. You see, we musicians, we\u2019re not our instrument, we\u2019re not the music we studied, we are creators through and through, whatever form that expression takes. It is with the questions that we slay the dragon, not with our virtuosity. The Hero\u2019s Journey exists for us as it does for anyone else, and we need only to walk forward with eyes open and a backpack full of good questions (and great gear), and we\u2019ll find our next dragon. I\u2019ve created this program, the inaugural one for my new(ish) online academy, for fellow musicians who feel that same nagging suspicion that \u2018the box\u2019 they currently inhabit is too small to contain them, that the times we\u2019re living in are calling them forth to something larger, that they too want to think of themselves as creators, as storytellers, as activists, and agents of change. Todd's Links http:\/\/www.toddreynolds.com http:\/\/facebook.com\/toddreynoldsmusic http:\/\/instagram.com\/digifiddler  http:\/\/twitch.tv\/digifiddler todd@toddreynolds.com Todd's gear: https:\/\/kit.co\/digifiddler Other Links Drone Practice App \u201cDroneo\u201d Honesty Pill Links The Online Business Accelerator-6 Month Group Coaching Program Free Resource Library Facebook Group Mailing List ","author_name":"The Honesty Pill Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/honestytpill.libsyn.com\/website","html":"