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Jason Ricci on Patreon.com
Jason Ricci on Patreon.com
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florida-trader
999 posts
Sep 22, 2016
6:11 AM
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My good friend Jason Ricci has created a page on Patreon.com. I had never heard of it and just stumbled across his page when I watched a recent instructional video he posted about 12th Position playing. I thought, “This is genius! This is great!” Here’s why. There are lots of guys on the Internet offering harmonica instruction – which is fantastic. Think about all the information that is available to us that did not exist 5-10 years ago. It is a win-win situation. We have all this incredible information available at the click of a mouse and the guys providing the knowledge can parlay that into income. It’s a business opportunity. Now it is not my intent to be critical of how anyone conducts business but the dominant business model is to charge people a monthly membership fee to gain access to information or to simply sell the lessons a la carte. Nothing wrong with that. But Jason has always done things a little different (there’s a news flash for you!). Jason puts the information out there FOR FREE. He just puts it out there for anyone to see and benefit from. Here are the latest statistics from Jason’s YouTube Channel.
16,684 subscribers
5,059,180 views
Joined Jun 12, 2006
Over 16,000 Subscribers. Over FIVE MILLION views. Five Million. And he’s been doing it for 10 years! For 10 years he’s been putting out information that can help us all become better harp players and only if you are moved to do so, you can kick him a few dollars to express your appreciation. Patreon.com strikes me as simple, convenient and classy way to garner support. If you have ever watched one of Jason’s lessons on YouTube. If you have ever enjoyed one of his performances – either live or video – I urge you to support him by becoming a Patron. $1 a month. $5 a month. $100 a month. Whatever you can swing. It will add up.
Jason has no idea that I am doing this but he has become a very good friend to Blue Moon Harmonicas and has done a lot in the past two years to help my business grow. We have great chemistry and it is a very symbiotic relationship so if there is anything I can do to help Jason – count me in. I hope we can count some of you in too.
Jason Ricci on Patreon
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Tom Halchak
www.BlueMoonHarmonicas.com
Last Edited by florida-trader on Sep 22, 2016 8:26 AM
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Ross Garren
164 posts
Sep 22, 2016
4:57 PM
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I'm in! Jason does all of harmonica fans a huge service in so many ways!
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Ross Garren
The Sheriffs of Schroedingham
Ross's Website
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Ross Garren
165 posts
Sep 22, 2016
6:26 PM
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Jason is a treasure for our community!
I'm in and I'm excited that Jason is giving us an easy way to support his fantastic videos!
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Ross Garren
The Sheriffs of Schroedingham
Ross's Website
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kudzurunner
6047 posts
Sep 22, 2016
7:14 PM
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Three and a half years ago, I came up with the idea of creating a website, Tipthemusic.com, in which people would be able to throw digital tips, on a one-time or recurrent (i.e., weekly or monthly) basis, to musicians and bands that they believed in and wanted to support. I dreamed up exactly what Patreon is. I just want to go on the record and say that. Obviously I was ahead of my time--which is what the majordomo of Modernbluesharmonica.com should be. I actually shelled out money to GoDaddy.com for Tipthemusic.com. I let it go after a while.
Dang!
Jason is absolutely somebody who Tipthemusic.com would have wanted to help. Fantastic player, fantastic teacher, and he was there very early in the whole YouTube/internet teaching thing.
Sign on, give him recurrent $$$ from your credit card. It doesn't need to be a whole lot, if you don't have a whole lot. $10 a month is more than a hundred bucks a year. Get only a hundred people to give $10 a month and you've got $12K per year. That really, really helps. That's groceries every month. That's $2.50 a week (for you) for what is, in essence, a private lesson.
I suggest that you do it.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Sep 22, 2016 7:15 PM
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florida-trader
1001 posts
Sep 23, 2016
6:42 AM
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Adam - interestingly enough, along the lines of your Tipthemusic idea, I am sure that you will recall that you posted some information a few years ago about a service called Digital Tip Jar. Well, I subscribed to Digital Tip Jar back then and even set up an account for my daughter, who is a singer. I got an email from Digital Tip Jar yesterday which, briefly put, informed me that they have re-tooled and developed new software. The original version of the software was based upon creating a QR Code which would enable patrons to scan and ultimately find their way to your account and give you some money. They found that the QR Code was the fatal flaw in the design. People either did not understand what a QR Code is, or they were concerned about downloading a virus or they didn't have an app for it. So the new software enables you to receive money via a text. Since most people are familiar with texting this should work a lot better. Finally, the email stated that whereas for the past 3 years the owners of Digital Tip Jar have subsidized the service at their own expense, they will no longer do so. A 5% fee will be dedcuted from each tip. As payment processing goes, 5% is pretty steep.
Don't giveup on Tipthemusic.com. There is room for more than one such service in the market.
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Tom Halchak
www.BlueMoonHarmonicas.com
Last Edited by florida-trader on Sep 23, 2016 1:43 PM
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Moon Cat
588 posts
Sep 24, 2016
7:56 PM
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It was Adam who talked me into doing those youtube vids ten years ago and I'll always be indebted to him for so many things! Tom... Thank you very much! Thank you very much for everything, you are such a giant part of Kate and I's lives and conversations when I'm lucky enough to be home and you have helped SO much in increasing that time that I am able to spend here in New Orleans! I love your humor and straightforward ways as a person and a businessman.
The biggest hurdle for me has been learning how to say no to work that keeps me in the rat race just treading water. As musicians we work so hard for so many years and we get it in our heads that we should never turn down work or it might not come back when in reality it has taken me many years to really learn there is a fine line: Sure you have to stay visible and tour etc but you also have to be mindful that every Job you take decreases your time for other opportunities, creative output, networking, product development, recording and BETTER gigs! Every time you say yes to a job thats another day/month or more my heads in the trench and I can't do anything except drive all day, sound check, shower play, sleep REPEAT. Thats been basically going on for almost 20 years.
In 2010 I crashed and burned. Everything I thought was meaningful was revealed to me empty and shallow and all that I worked so hard for seemed selfish, cheap and meaningless I really felt like I had sold my sole for the American Dream and I had it. Amazingly at that same time I got very ill with some really bizarre lung infection, was quarantined in Vanderbilt hospital for a while, had these awful hives for about year and was on high dosages of prednisone, my house got flooded, my boyfriend of 5 years Brady left me, I was diagnosed with Bi-polar disorder,attempted suicide then I finally relapsed on Dope and booze after 12 years sober, went to jail for a bunch of stuff I did and some I didn't and so I started my Pity Party which I held for three years. SORRY everyone, what a waste of time but I had to do that dumb research...
The things I learned the most after the fog cleared was:
1.) Family, friends and taking care of them and myself spiritually, emotionally and physically come first over music/jobs/ego/american dreams no matter what.
2.) Saying no to work not only helps those close to me be closer but sometimes helps work actually get better!
3.) Theres great things that can be done musically not on stage. (Teaching, developing products, networking and LEARNING more)
4.) LIFE IS PRECIOUS and TIME is life!
Patreon has been a means for me to stay home, play more in New Orleans, help other people outside of music, say no to pointless wheel spinning gigs, take care of myself, Sylvester the cat, Kate and my friends, develop and promote cool products with my friends that support me and have been with me through all my nonsense! Patron helps me say NO to the machine and gets me out out of my silly self made matrix of TV learned dollar based idolatry that has kept me paralyzed spiritually for years! I am so grateful to the small harmonica community, the blues world, the fans, the bands, the artists everyone for making my work in progress of a spiritual journey a little more balanced, beautiful and colorful! Im smiling right now! A Moon Cat Loves and appreciates all y'all!
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www.mooncat.org
Last Edited by Moon Cat on Sep 24, 2016 8:06 PM
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STME58
1836 posts
Sep 24, 2016
10:59 PM
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Mooncat, I really appreciate what you share about your experiences in the music industry. I keep a copy of your 2009 essay "Stay in College" to share with young people that are considering a career in music.
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Moon Cat
589 posts
Sep 25, 2016
12:04 AM
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Thanks STME58! Thats hilarious, flattering and funny. That was probably my best writing thanks so much for still reading!-J
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www.mooncat.org
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The Iceman
2948 posts
Sep 25, 2016
7:42 AM
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As Jason has discovered, the way the world is for musicians currently, one can not be a "nice guy offering free information", living off of the "love" offered in return.
New philosophy should be "have something valuable to offer others, and when they show up, bill them for it".
Money is just an energy exchange more useful than "paying with compliments".
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The Iceman
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ME.HarpDoc
194 posts
Sep 25, 2016
7:53 AM
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Great concept. Jason, I'm in and it's BECAUSE of your shareing, being a nice guy and value delivered. (Iceman, that'll be $2.50 please).
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Sundancer
29 posts
Sep 25, 2016
11:55 AM
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I met Jason in Holly Springs Miss at a Gussow event - I was in Memphis for a wedding that week - lucky me. Jason's intelligence & teaching style knocked me out, and since then I've taken a dozen lessons from him on Skype. To say I'm a crap player would be an understatement, but he always displayed patience & humor with me. Jason, you are also a very wide man who has learned the lessons of many lifetimes. I miss that more than the lessons. And I am still practicing what you taught me and improving greatly because if it. Hope we can have more lessons in the future Jason, but in the meantime your YouTube lessons are priceless. Gracias amigo.
Last Edited by Sundancer on Sep 25, 2016 12:04 PM
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Moon Cat
591 posts
Sep 25, 2016
8:35 PM
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Hey thanks guys! I'll keep 'em coming no matter what. You have to give it away to keep it!
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www.mooncat.org
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1847
3711 posts
Sep 26, 2016
7:03 AM
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there was a man they called him mad... the more he gave, the more he had.
paul bunyan.
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