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_outlineIn 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 Reed, Albert Lee, Chet Atkins, Roy Clark, Buck Owens, and Les Paul.
I was doing any kind of recording sessions you can imagine. Some in big time studios and some literally in people's bedroom studios. I just wanted to get experience recording.
One day I answered an ad on Craigslist from a songwriter named Chris Frame who was looking for a multi-instrumentalist to play on 4 of his songs for his upcoming album.
I remember my first day I went to his studio, also a bedroom studio, but he had all the professional gear, including one of the first Pro Tools systems called the 888.
Since I didn't know what to expect I took every instrument I could fit in my car including a Gibson ES-335 (which was a recent birthday present from my wife), a Fender Telecaster, a Recording King Lap Steel, and a Dobro and Banjo I got from my grandpa.
Chris and I hit it off right away. Our personalities, style in music, and work ethic were very similar and our friendship began.
We spent the next few days recording for his album, which was a mix of country, rock, and southern rock. We did lead guitar, banjo, lap steel, and even a little mandolin.
Although Chris was a very demanding producer, he was also very talented musician, songwriter, and could work Pro Tools better than anyone I had ever seen.
Around this time I found a guy on Craigslist that was the music supervisor for MTV and he was looking for some tracks to place in some of their shows.
I had always wanted to write tracks for TV and since Chris and I were done with the album I suggested that we do a few and submit them and see what happens.
Chris was excited about the idea and was ready to get started.
The process is that first the music supervisor gave us some popular radio songs and told us to "copy" them. When I say copy, it's really more of make them sound like these songs but don't infringe of the original artists copy write. This is a very standard procedure in the film and TV world.
Some of the bands he wanted us to sound like were The Killers and Weezer.
The way Chris and I worked was that I would go and listen to the songs, and write chord progressions that sounded like the original tracks. In the studio Chris would help with the arrangement and then program the drums and play the bass. After I would lay down the guitar parts, we would add any keys or special sound effects, mix it and it was done.
The energy was really flowing and we did 10 tracks in the matter of a few days.
We submitted them to our MTV guy and waited. A few weeks later I got an email from the guy saying that we placed one of our tracks on an MTV show called Wild Boyz. Wild Boyz is a "Jackass" style show that featured Steve O and friends in different parts of the world doing stupid stuff.
Anyway, he says that the show will air on a Wednesday night. I set up my TIVO during band rehearsal that night so we wouldn't miss it. We both forgot about the show and after rehearsal Chris started to drive home to Santa Monica.
When I went to my house I remembered that I had recorded the episode of Wild Boyz. I sat anxiously watching the show waiting for the familiar sound of one of our songs.
Sure enough during the middle of the episode I hear one of the tracks that Chris and I wrote. It was so cool that I got goose bumps hearing my music on TV. I immediately called Chris and he got so excited he turned around and drove back to my house.
We must have watched it over and over again, sitting there smiling like two school kids. It was an awesome feeling.
This began a long string of tracks that we got placed on MTV, but also lead to music that I have written for Scorpion (CBS), Pitbulls and Parolees (Animal Planet), PUMA, and even a theme for a professional hockey team.
All the music you hear in this video are tracks that Chris and I wrote.
The picture in the middle of the video is The Chris Frame Band taken at my studio Carter's Coyote Pass Studios. Chris is the tall guy on the right and I'm the cool guy with the dogs.
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