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been a great asset because my versatility has handing out charts, you’d better be ready to sacrifice the integrity of what I do? No? Great,
allowed me to play in a lot of different settings. read. You can’t give out a woe-is-me story I’ll go for it!
I wouldn’t be able to play with the orchestra if about how you can’t read if you know going I couldn’t read. I wouldn’t be able to play with into it that you need to read. You’re putting Being up with the times is something we have
Vulfpeck if I couldn’t just learn the song, or just yourself into water and swimming upstream. to do as young artists. You go where the people
pick it up.
are, and the people are on the Internet. It’s the
[WM] YouTube, Spotify, albums, the Koz number one place people consume music,
In other settings like Nashville sessions where Cruise, and touring – you have a pretty broad entertainment, and art now. If I’m going to try
people are handing out number charts, you’ve range of revenue streams and seemed to have and reach those people I’d better be fluent
gotta be able to read it. If I can’t read it I’m mastered making the most of them. Noting your in their language, I’d better understand the
going to struggle, and I don’t want to struggle. internet days date back to AOL and Angelfire, arena that everybody is in. And myself, I am a
It’s not hard if you put in the time. Reading you don’t seem to have gotten stuck along the consumer just as much as I am a creator. So, I
music is a muscle that you have to work out. It way. Can you give us your take on all of this? take note, I try to pay attention. “Oh, this artist
is a skill that you have to practice, and anybody
is doing this now, cool!” or, “Oh, people are not
can do it, you just have to work on it. I have a [Cory] The Internet is old news for a lot of us doing Kickstarter anymore, got it. Kickstarter is
lot of friends who are like, “No, I just can’t do now. I kind of look at myself as an Internet artist, gone.” People still use it, but not the way they
it, man. I’m just not able to do it.” And I’m like, and if I look at myself that way, if that’s where used to. I did a record on Kickstarter, great, but
well, “You couldn’t drive a car until you needed my gigs are, if that’s my workplace, I’d better there are other ways now.
to. You couldn’t read books until you needed know my workplace. I’d better know where the to. You couldn’t bench press two hundred coffee machine is, I’d better know where the And people aren’t selling CDs anymore, that’s
and seventy-five pounds until you worked for bathroom is, I’d better know where the break how it is. If I were to just try to press a thousand
months at it. I think you can read a chord chart. room is, where the printer is, you know? I look CDs for my next record and not put it on
You can sight read if you just work at it.” That’s at the Internet as my workspace, so I need Spotify, I would make less money. So it’s kind of
my outlook on reading! to pay attention to what’s happening on the just paying attention. I have a great community
Internet. How are other people making money of people around me who are always talking
Most people don’t need to read, great! No on the Internet? That’s an interesting revenue about this and always trying to figure it out.
reason to practice it? That’s fine! But, if you stream, does that match what I’m doing? Does Fortunately, I play in a band who’s band leader,
want to get into situations where people are that sit with my overall message? Does that Jack Stratton, is a king of the Internet. You look
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