This is not my typical experience, but I actually completed every musical goal I set at the begining of the year. I’m just as surprised...

I haven’t dropped a singer-songwriter track since May of 2019. Since then I’ve been working on other projects, releasing videos, and...

This Summer, I started teaching guitar lessons. It’s been interesting learning guitar again through beginners’ eyes and hearing their...

I’ve always considered myself a songwriter. It’s what excites me most about music! I love being creative and writing songs, but it...

Today I’m going to talk about something I learned in music school. It’s called “offloading” and it’s one of the reasons I was able to...

I’m sitting in a room at my parents’ house right now, and I just finished a beat. I’m moving out soon and much of my stuff is packed. ...

I know one day doesn’t really mean anything, but for a lot of us it’s the end of a terrible year and it feels like things will get better....

This December I graduated college and I celebrated by releasing a lofi EP. I wanted something commemorative of the college experience,...

I am in my final semester of college, and what a semester to go out on. I keep thinking that if I had graduated in the spring, I would...

In the Spring I took Electronic Orchestration, a class focusing on synthesis and sound design.  We would learn the fundamentals of sound,...

I haven’t posted in a hot minute, and it’s pretty clear I’ve lost traction.  I used to post once a week, but it’s been months since I’ve...

When I thought about demos, I used to imagine a shittier version of the final song: badly recorded, unedited, and with a sub-par...

When compiling songs for this EP, I wasn’t only looking for songs I liked.  I wanted the songs to have a central theme.  I’ve said before...

It’s pretty common for people to believe that there’s a time limit when it comes to making art.  “If you haven’t done it by x, then it’s...

Lots of people are afraid to start something on the grounds they won’t be any good.  I’m that way.  We’re usually right about it too, but...

Ari Herstand is an LA-based singer-songwriter, blogger, and actor.  He graduated with a degree in music business from McNally Smith...

When I tell people I’m going to school for music, they often assume I want be a rock star, or at the very least a full-time musician. ...

I was already planning on attending Big Turn.  Their lineup boasts some of Minnesota’s most well-known acts: Charlie Parr, Dessa, Gaelynn...

Eddie Van Halen is famous for his tapping technique, but he wasn’t the first to do it.  In fact, hundreds of years before “Eruption,”...

A few years back, I had a ton of musical ideas floating around my head.  I wanted to write it all: hip-hop, EDM, singer-songwriter,...