How to become a successful musician: My Story
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- Опубликовано: 29 окт 2022
- Are you hoping to become a pro musician?
I tell my story of how it happened to me and give you tips on how to achieve your goal!
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If anyone sees a reply from @Matt_johnson_jamiroquai that is a fake account impersonating me!. My one is @MattJohnsonJamiroquai
Hi Matt..yeah I received a message from the imposter..🤔
Hey Mat, got one too, thought already that it is not from you, why would you send a message like this to an old small profile entertainer in Bavaria .... on the other hand side I am not on telegram as well.... anyway... love what you are doing for us
Matt, if you see this, there's an amazing musician/singer that I'm a huge fan of who I think you could really do some amazing work with. He's called Oscar Jerome (he has a channel here on RUclips) and doesn't seem to have the audience he deserves... His track 'Do you really' gave me real Jamiroquai vibes! A collab with him would be immense, I can almost hear it in my head now. A rather selfish ask, but you never know. 😅
don't worry Matt, we know you are irreplaceable :)
Great Post Matt although i will disagree with one thing you said at the end about you not being a jazz musician. Most if not all jazz musicians started out classically trained and understanding the theory and rudiments of music in great detail. You've already trodden that road and i think personally speaking that you are a very accomplished jazz player even though you are not in that genre but I'm sure many others will agree that there's nothing you really can't do on keys.
I’ve been a working musician for 30 years, and I just wanted to say that this advice is perfect for the young musician. I’ve worked with so many people who can’t get the ego under control. Those people never get called again! The right sounds, the right parts, and be pleasant and professional. That’s the key…not your jacket, pants, or hair! Serve the music. Excellent, Matt.
Matt does have excellent jackets, pants and hair tho
I wonder how Miles Davis would comment on your idea about a jacket and pants? ;)
I think Miles Davis was one of those exceptions that tests the rule. He could be impossible to work with and appeared to have his priorities all wrong, but with talent like his, he could get away with all the crazy clothes, hair, and drug addictions! Most successful musicians are much more reliable and "nice" to be around.
@@AutPen38 Did you work with him ? :))))).
@@cooltrades7469 I taught Miles Davis the minor pentatonic scale. He said he didn't like my rules, punched me, stole my bag of dope, and shagged my wife.
I'm not a musician, but I'm a programmer for 15+ years and I can say, your advices are useful in other mere mortals professions. 😉 Love your work and channel. Thanks.
Thanks!
Thank you Mr. Johnson! This is such good advice. I’m a beginner and I still have a lot to learn but this gives me lots of goals ❤️ My biggest takeaway: put your ego aside and realize it’s not about you it’s about the music. Im not gonna focus on popularity I’m just gonna make the music Jesus puts in my heart and stay faithful! I’m getting a lot of impartation from your videos and it’s helping me to write my first songs! Thank you! I pray to one day be as good of a keyboardist as you!
Thank you! An idea for another video: "how to become a successful song writer" with your ideas on approaches to writing songs, including approaches for people who might not be natural singers 🙂
Now I know where I went wrong all those years ago. Only kidding, but I did love hearing you recount your journey. What I found fascinating is that so much of boiled down to, practicing, saying yes and checking your ego at the door. As a young musician, all I brought to the club was delusions of grandeur, ego and only enough knowledge of my instrument to play the gig in front of me. As an older man, I see the joy of practicing, the journey of serving a song and I delight in checking my ego, it’s more fun for everyone involved. Thanks for the vids.
Hi Matt! I loved watching this video. Thanks for sharing your story with us and for the great advise.
I loved your fascinating and positive story as well as your sensible advice! Your videos are always great!
Precious advices. Thanks Matt !
Excellent advice. Assuming a person can play, the ability to rub along with everyone is one of the, if not the most important aspect of being in a band or doing session work.
Matt, thank you for sharing your truly inspirational story and giving us great advice!
I'm sure I don't speak for myself Matt when I say that you being active on RUclips is a big plus for many a budding novice (like myself), intermediate, and Pro musician alike. Your Channel and the content, skills, tips, tricks tutorials and personality you bring are Golden....
Matt, this is such wonderful advice, and a really interesting story. Thanks for taking the time to tell us your journey!
Great to hear another musician's story! Hope your career keeps going great!
The Jazz Open! What amazing gig this was ... Matt your so down to earth and that's very important to be successful and I always love it to see the passion what you have for the music to see in you're eyes, they spark then like little Stars at the sky ... thanks for the video x
Love your channel Matt. This is exactly what young musicians need to hear.
Competence and humility is the key!
Thanks for sharing Matt. Very encouraging to hear your story ❤
Thank you, Matt! It's great to know your experience and get your advices for life!
Loved the advice - just wonderful practical stuff. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom!
I loved this video Matt. You approach everything with so much integrity, whether its a gear video, performance tips, your great music videos, or something like this. It's clear that you've lived your own advice, which makes it all the more inspiring. Thanks for another great video.
Lovely video! It is so nice to see someone living a lot of people's dreams be sensible, kind, and helpful. This is good life advice for everything, but particularly cool to hear from someone who has stood on some truly awesome stages and made some great music.
A relevant topic absolutely and thanks for sharing your story and tips. You have allways been a great inspiration and mentor.
Very true... excellent video, thank you for recording it!
Btw, from the few of you videos I've watched, it's really hard for me to imagine that anyone had problem with your ego ever!
You really seem like a genuinely nice person, and I believe you deserve success you've got.
I wish you all the best!
I love listening to this Matt. I have followed your playing since you came on board with Jamiroquai
You are incredibly generous with your videos that you have shared with your followers
Thanks so much matt!!! You've got me pumped for practice and my gig I'll be playing for a mostly empty room next week! You're a rare gem here on RUclips. Hope to see you guys in Denver one day!!
Awesome. Thanks for sharing your story Matt.
What a fantastic story! Thank you so much for sharing!
This is extremely useful advice, I hope you continue to make these quality videos Matt !
Great video and thanks so much for your insight. What resonates most with me from your advice is this attitude and approach works whether you're playing the British Legion or Wembley. Thanks so much for sharing and much love and respect from the Central Coast of California.
Great stuff man! I’ve been gigging for 30 years myself, and your tips are spot on. Plus it was nice to hear your stories. 😎
Matt; Thank you for this insight and sharing your experiences such an interesting video love this sort of thing, only wish I could be a fly on the wall when you get back in the studio with the gang … I can dream, hope you have the most amazing time !!! Looking forward to the next Jamiroquai Chapter… take care have fun 🙏🏻🙌🏻😎💫👍🏻
Absolutely amazing, humbling advice from one of the greats. Thanks so much.
This is the most comprehensive and informative video on this topic that I’ve ever seen. Thanks as always for your great advice and humility. You are a true mentor.
Best advice I've seen on YT. Kudos to you. Applies to every sector of activity, in fact.
You could not have been clearer and more honest. In my own small way, I fully share your observations and tips and as a keyboard player myself, I have experienced the same kind of situations and experiences.
Being prepared, serving the music and the other musicians you work with, listening to them and yourself carefully and critically, and still having fun. All this pays off and gratifies even if it does not lead to the great success everyone covets: after all, music requires a lot of energy, sacrifice and love... and sometimes dedicating one's life to it.
Music will always give you a lot as long as you are willing to give it everything. :)
Really great video Matt and always great music, thanks!
I love your advice Matt! It’s great to hear your journey and I totally agree about practice and gigs!! It’s time in the saddle right!! I remember trying to pick apart Virtual Insanity, one chord at a time, by pausing on tape, and I didn’t even understand what I was hearing at first… it is time we’ll spent to understand why you like a song and so wonderful to hear an awesome musician like you talk about your journey… thanks for being awesome and keep the videos coming!!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thanks for your very good advices, and good tips, they made me progress so much in composition and use of precise sounds.
Thanks for sharing your story and experiences with us, it helps a lot.
This was one of the most inspiring youtube videos I've seen in years. Thank you, Matt!
What a great video, thanks so much. I remember the legion gigs! 👍👍
May you have enough lifetime to achieve your goals in your beloved work Mr. Johnson....warm thanks for the inspiring words from🖤❤💛
cream always rises! thank you for sharing this with us! This is great advice for musicians, but good advice for anyone too. Good work ethic and practices. Hardwork, humility, be prepared, perseverance! Good stuff. Really enjoyed this and needed to hear some of it! thank you
It is so nice to hear you talk about your story. We live in Cologne and have been to two Jamiroquai concerts here. We are big fans for many years. I remember saying to my wife at the first concert that the keyboard player is the heart of the band - because you could see that. It's nice that you were able to do it that way.
Great post, humble, but so to the point, I have practiced many of your advices, and just learned a few MORE details. Gracias Sr.
Thanks so much for sharing your story. I'm in the same shoes you were in the first several years, and it's inspiring to hear how you get to bigger and bigger things just by being consistently out there. It's a lot of functions, pub gigs, bar residencies, and the occasional bigger gig, and sometimes it feels like this is all it'll ever be!
Wow, thanks for sharing all this. What wise words, spoken from experience. Good stuff!
Great advice. Love the priorities. Learn the rhythm, feel, and groove. Learn to work well with a group. Stay humble and work hard.
This was really great, thank you Matt for this and for everything you do. As an IT professional, I have music as my side piece, but I still dream of it being a more regular revenue stream than cover band gigs; this was definitely food for thought. Id love to show you a couple originals someday and hear your feedback. Cheers!
Many thanks for your Inspirational video! Greets from zurich, Amir!
Thank you so much for the helpful and heartfelt video! Unfortunately, my time has already been lost, and in the end I did not follow the path of a musician, but for young guys who just graduated from school and got sick with music, this video can help with the right choice and suggest how to act at first!👍
This is solid advice for rookies and vets alike! Great information.
Thanks Matt ! Nice video
Loads of exceptionally good advice there. Thank you.
so good. ...love it. ......
Thank you Matt !!!
Sir, here's a load of gold. Thank you.
GREAT advice. Especially about knowing the tunes. When I began I started with the thought of: I don't want to rely on anyone else for what is going to happen during the set. Even if everyone else drops out or doesn't know what is going on.....I'm going to carry this tune.
Cool video. As a keyboardist myself I find your video fascinating.... Love the busking part ✨🎶
Wow, amazing insight! Thanks for sharing this information, Matt.
Sound advice, great tips, will send to my nephew who is a young musician!
I enjoyed this Matt , thanks for sharing with us . Back in around 1999 when Stuart Zender left the band i remember seeing an advert in what i think was the ' Bassist ' magazine , for Stuarts replacement . Well at that time i had been playing bass for about 5 years and spent hours , days , weeks , months learning all the basslines lol . And just not having the balls to reply to the ad i remember thinking what a gig it was going to be for somebody . Nick Fyffe i believe came in in the end on the Synchronized album although i believe quite a bit of the bass parts were played on the keys ? 👍
Nice to hear your story Matt! Back in 1994 I was in Bournemouth learning English, Nice to know that you are from there! Saludos!!!
Wish I could let music become my career. It's just as you said, "you may not be the richiest but you definitely the luckiest person because you are working on what you love." Feels like music is my passion, but I'm still struggling on academic stuff, university and so on. Music for me is just like a shelter, a far dream. But I'll keep going, learning stuff. Maybe someday, this dream could come true. Thanks for sharing your story, really enjoy watching every video of yours Matt. You are a excellent person that deserves everything!
Love you man! Your personality and passion is so inspiring!
Thanks!
Thanks, very valuable advices,and certainly very true👍
Matt, "inspirational" is a word that is now used extensively and probably too much, your pitch makes a real difference : it does trigger lots of thoughts, brings energy while remaining very "down to earth" and authentic. I respect a lot your journey and accomplishments, keep up playing great music and being a true inspiration for us !
Really interesting ! Thank you for sharing such "in-depth" thoughts
Uf, thank you so much Matt, so much wisdom !!!
This is awesome 🤩
I’ve done covers for a long time and now that I’m working on my own music I’m happier. Even if no one hears my music I’m good with it.
Thanks a lot for your RUclips channel. Jamiroquai is not my big thing but watching you presenting a synth or just listening when you are jamming. You are amazing just to listen to @Matt. Enjoying your content so much. 😃😃😃
Awesome video Matt great advice very encouraging 👍🏽
Good advice for any industry you want to do well in, be nice, work hard!
Thanks Matt! Great advice for so many professions 🙂
Thank you Matt. Very useful advices. I wish I could meet you and spend some time with you as I play the keyboards too (not the same level of course). Anyway I went to the jamiroquai 's gig here in Toulouse in 2017. Hope to see you again soon in Toulouse.
cheers matt!!! best advice ever!
Love ya Matt!!!❤❤❤
You’re great for giving this advice, thank you
Great advice . My industry is similar - need the personality and talent, but right place , right time is vital, and you have to kind of engineer your path towards that
I stumbled across your channel yesterday (the Oberheim OB-Xa Video) and I've been binging it since, great informative content, no disrespect intended but your videos are so good I just thought you were a really good RUclipsr, then twigged after a few videos that you're the keys player for a band that was part of the soundtrack to every family party of my teens (My aunt and uncle, and my mum and dad all loved Jamiroquai's sound, this was around the mid 2000s) and it blew my mind!
Thanks for taking time out of what I can only imagine is a very busy schedule to make these videos!
Very inspiring, thank you!
Thanks Matt for your honest testimony and these precious advices - God bless you!
Sunny greetings from Switzerland,
Markus🇨🇭 🎹🎵
Matt I’ve followed Jamiroquai from the beginning pre Social Media and RUclips. Always pleasantly surprised how humble all the band members come across in videos without any egos. 👍
Great advice for young people that want to get into the music business and yes it is a business. Key is persistence and all gigs can teach you something. Last as you said doing RUclips is important. Back in my day musicians would have business cards with their phone number. So if you met someone you could give them a card and not have to write on a scrap of paper or think that person will remember some numbers you rattles off to them. So today RUclips is the modern business card and is key to getting your name out there. Excellent video
Great video, nice insight thanks keep em coming.
All tops advice, no matter your instrument, practice, practice and then practice some more. Oh, and jam along to the radio, whatever the tune, work out it's key(s) and join in.
Great advice, thanks for sharing.
100% ! All aspiring musicians need to see this. Nice one Matt 👌
Thanks Hazel
Thank you for taking the time to offer this advice Matt. You are so right on all of the points, it's very down to earth stuff - be a good hang, don't spend too much on tune/vid production, practice lots. I'd add as a keyboardist: balance your patches! I've played with folks who are all over the place with giant horn shots out of nowhere and then comping on a too-quiet Rhodes patch. Keep up the good work.
yes true!
Your a solid gold geezer Matt!
Brilliant. Concise, wise and v practical... excellent job
Solid advice all around! 🍻
insightful. thanks for sharing Matt 😀
You are humble......ready to learn. You are right...don't be the abnoxious ego head! I had to play Whiter Shade of Pale down the local pub once and I was so nervous about fluffing it .....it might have been down the local Dog n Duck but everyone knows that organ line....so I made sure to practise it! It was even better when the whole pub sang along to Hey Jude at the end... that is another one I needed to learn to do properly 😀🤣Good on you ...your love of music is there and your kindness shows through...this was a good inspirational video...let's see some more funky stuff from you soon....maybe some Deodato licks from you on that VV!
Matt very inspiring and illustrative thank you
Awesome story Matt. I have always had the most respect for your playing abilities and style! We are probably about the same age. I have never made it to your level of success, but in the 90's there was a 3 year stretch in which my band opened for famous bands in my area of the U.S. One of those bands was ELO which was near the pinnacle of my part-time musical career :)
love ELO!
Get the right sound that has always been my mantra , I spend hours getting the parts right makes such a difference! Great chat Matt …. I learnt the most in my teens when I was playing in a covers band . Life’s lessons are hard earned and the great thing is you never stop learning….
Absolutely!
What a great video and great advice. I was an OK pianist/ keyboardist, and OK rhythm guitarist, and an OK backing vocalist. I could play and sing simple things really well, every time. And that ended up getting me a tremendous amount of work. But I never learnt to burn, which is why I am here! ;)
Well, doing simple things really well is under rated in my opinion!
A year too late with this comment, so you may not read it, but in case you do, I wanted to say how much I appreciate your candour and transparency. It’s rare to get access to the insights from successful musicians - I’m finding the stuff you’re sharing is definitely influencing my context in a measurable way. Cheers!
Wish I could've found musicians who love disco/old school funk/70s jazz like Herbie Hancock, etc.....your band was and is a mix of everything I like. Unfortunately, found myself getting calls for blues and classic rock bands and very few calls for music I actually love....which is why I eventually decided to hang it up. I still play music every day, it will always be a part of my life, just not interested in dragging myself to gigs where I hate the music and the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Not trying to sound bitter, I cut my teeth on 60s/70s rock and blues but just got tired of dealing with lazy musicians that never wanted to learn/play anything else...and if they could? Then they'd start bitching about money.
When I first heard your disco inspired tune in the late 90s (dont know the name of the song) I thought, why can't I form a band like that?
You guys are all super talented and revived and popularized my favorite styles of music. I also switched over from bass to keys and really like your tutorials as well. Thanks for all you do.
Hi Matt, really enjoyed hearing your story and your tips and advice hold good just as much for an amateur gigging musician such as myself. Listening to you talk about what you do is like having a chat with a mate down the pub! One thing I would add (which probably comes under the "don't be a dick" category) is - be reliable! Turn up to gigs and rehearsals on time and don't let people down. I've worked with one or two super talented musicians who were sadly flaky as f**k and you very quickly forget about their ability when you can't trust them.
Great 👍🏾 advice 👍🏾, I especially love the part about authenticity of certain sounds 👌🏾, I'm currently in the 'process' of buying a Jupiter 6 (depending on my current budget, last few years of Covid had a negative impact on my music 🎶 budget). I used to be very stubborn and arrogant when I played solos, these days I've humbled myself and play the parts that are required, this is mainly for the collective sound and audience 😀!!!
Music is what feelings sound like 👊🏾