Everything Ukulele | Custom Tyde Ukuleles with Tyler Joersz
Terry Carter
Let's talk about Custom Ukuleles and the incredible and creative instruments of TYDE MUSIC CUSTOM UKULELES.
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Everything Ukulele | Jazz Ukulele with the incredible Christopher Davis-Shannon
Terry Carter
Christopher Davis-Shannon one of the best Jazz Ukulele players in the world will be joined us to talk about how can you play jazz with your ukulele!
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Everything Ukulele | Ukulele Woods with Paul Okami
Terry Carter
Paul Okami from one of the best Hawaiian Ukulele Brands, KoAloha, joined us to talk about ukulele woods!
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Everything Ukulele | Hawaiian Koa Wood with Joe Souza & Kahiau Souza
Terry Carter
Learn from one of the BEST HAWAIIAN Ukulele Companies all about Ukulele woods!! The founder of Kanile'a Ukuleles directly from Hawaii, Joe Souza, and his son Kahiau will be joining us!!
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Final Results - 30 Day Vegan Challenge
Terry Carter
This episode I breakdown the results of my 4 week vegan challenge. Although I was only planning on doing it for a month, I have decided to continue on with my plant based life. My end weight after the 4 week challenge was 177.6 pounds and I started out at 181.4 pounds. I essentially lost 5 pounds by not changing a thing, I still worked out, meditated, and surfed, but only cut out meat and dairy from my diet. I’m feeling and looking better than ever. What has really helped me is having the support of my wife, who also did this challenge with me. She has been doing a lot of cooking which has...
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30 Day Vegan Challenge (End of Week 2)
Terry Carter
Today, I'm going to talk about how I'm feeling after finishing my 2nd week of my 30 Day Plant Based Vegan Diet. Just to be clear vegan is cutting out all meat and diary out of your diet. I was out surfing this morning and got motivated to rush home and record this. Even though the kids are stirring and the dog is out and about I wanted to share with you exactly how I'm feeling both mentally and physically. I'm feeling outstanding, my energy in incredible and I'm loving of my body is responding to this plant based diet. Although I don't sleep much anyway but I have been averaging 3-4 hours of...
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30 Day Vegan Challenge
Terry Carter
Today I'm going to talk about my 30 Day Plant Based Diet that I'm trying. As a successful musician you can't perform at a high level if you don't feel good. Many of you know that I'm big on exercise, eating well, meditating, positive thinking, and reading a lot. Although lately I haven't been feeling 100%. I wouldn't say that I have felt bad, but I feel like there was some room for improvement. In attempts to better health I decided to do a 30 day all plant based diet. This is something that I'm a little scared of. I have eaten meat and dairy my entire life so giving it up, even for 30 days is...
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How To Deal With Failure When You Suck
Terry Carter
In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how I dealt with a performance where I sucked and learned to be better. Part of any kind of success is also going through some low points or failures. Today instead of telling you something I did well at or excelled at, I’m going to discuss something that I failed at. This is a story that is hard to discuss because we want to believe that we always perform at high levels and that we are essentially “perfect.” I got a call from a good buddy and wanted to know if I wanted to teach a summer guitar class and perform for the faculty concert at what...
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Track Your Goals | Lose Weight | Sugar Detox
Terry Carter
In this 4K motivational video I'll discuss how to Track Your Goals and achieve the success in life that you are looking for. You have your dreams and you set your goals but now you have to track your progress along the way. I'm going to use my weight as an example to demonstrate how you can use tracking to reach your goals. I set a goal to get to 180 pounds. Since I was at 191 pounds that meant that I had to lose 11 pounds. My first step was to start a sugar and carb detox. For 3 weeks we completely cut out sugars, yes even fruit, and all carbs (breads, grains, etc.). I still did my daily...
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Hearing My Music On MTV
Terry Carter
In this podcast I'll discuss how and when I got my first composition on MTV. Around the time I was graduating from the University of Southern California with my Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar, I was working around Los Angeles as a professional musician. One of the things I wanted to get into more than anything was studio recording work. At the time I was mainly playing guitar but I was also working up my skills as a lap steel, dobro, banjo, and mandolin player. I was also studying country guitar with the great Steve Trovato and loving anything that had twang, like Johnny Cash, Jerry...
info_outlineThere is a great quote from Will Smith that says, there is no plan B, that having a plan B only distracts from plan A.
As I look back at my musical career I realize that this is the exact mindset that I have had. Being a musician is a difficult career path, there is lots of competition and it's not the steady 9-5 job that a majority of people settle for.
My love for music really began to blossom as a teenager when I got my first guitar and was hooked on guitar players like Eddie Van Halen and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
My dad also had a big influence on me as I was constantly surrounded by great classic rock music by bands such as The Doobie Brothers, Neil Diamond, Supertramp, Bob Seger, and The Rolling Stones.
After my career as a baseball player ended I made the commitment that I was going to dedicate my life to music.
This lead me to studying music at the local community college, then to an undergraduate degree from San Diego State University, and then a teaching assistant position at the University of Southern California where I got my Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar.
After school I sent 15 years in Los Angeles as a working musician. In order to keep my dream alive as a musician I worked in a diverse amount of settings that included playing in original and cover bands, studio and touring work, composer of music for TV and film, and playing a wide variety of instruments including guitar, ukulele, singing, banjo, pedal steel, mandolin and drums.
I also was a producer, written and published guitar and ukulele books, and run education website teaching people how to play guitar and ukulele. I have been very fortunate to work with some great artists such as Weezer, Josh Groban, Christopher Tin, Robbie Krieger, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. I also have a passion and dedication to education and helping people learn the craft of music.
Even though I have achieved a lot of success in my career it was never an easy ride. I had to do whatever it took to make my dreams a reality.
Although at times I felt like it would be easier if I settled and took a more "steady" or "traditional" job like becoming a lawyer or contractor, I never did because I knew that it would take away or even kill my career.
I even got very close a few times at getting a full time college teaching job, although I was disappointed at the time, I realized that if I had those jobs they would have taken away from the many opportunities that came my way.
What do you have to do? The first thing you have to do is find out what you are passionate about. The second thing is that you have to decide and make the decision that this is what you are going to do with your life. Third, you have to put all your heart and soul into it and never look back.
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