Comments on: Journalism lessons from the violin

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Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:03:39 +0000

[...] rather quiet this last six months or so, but when there is a post, the quality is astounding. This time he equates journalism with playing the violin. And I can’t agree more. I play two instruments myself, trumpet and French horn. I loved [...]

By: Mark Hamilton

Mark Hamilton — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:48:57 +0000

Alex:

I love the idea of online musical collaboration. f it can be done from journalism, why not music-making?

GR:

I just zipped over and read the post comparing Twitter and a band. Great post.

Mark

By: GR Hansen

GR Hansen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:40:08 +0000

This is a great post. I love both journalism and music, and enjoy the connection you made. I wrote a similarly post a couple weeks back on Twitter and The Band – after watching my nephew’s high school band in Wisconsin. http://bit.ly/2Qpjn1

Thanks

By: Alexandre Gamela

Alexandre Gamela — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:28:04 +0000

I think exactly the same. As a musician for a longer time than i’ve been a journalist, i always approached both areas quite similarly, and you sum it up brilliantly. As a matter of fact, i’ve been wanting to start an online collaborative music project for journalists for a year now (i even thought about developing the idea for the Enterprise module at my MA), and try out some collaborative tools and different “business” models, since the news and the music industries are going through major changes. If i ever get to do it, i’ll let you know ;)

And if we strike the wrong note, it’s not a mistake, it’s jazz.

By: Mark Hamilton

Mark Hamilton — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:10:29 +0000

The 10,000-hour figure, which I first came across in Daniel Levitin’s book This is Your Brain on Music, relates to mastery. You can get really good at something in many fewer hours than that. The good thing about any of this is well you’re practising, you’re also doing it: you don’t have to wait until you’re a master or even really, really good to pursue either music or journalism.