This episode features jazz violinist/mandolinist, Jason Anick, a 28-yr-old rising star and regular instructor at the annual Creative Strings Workshop summer conference and Berklee College of Music. Scroll down to listen and learn:

• how Jason combined the best of classical and jazz practice routines to develop bulletproof musicianship

• his routines and regimens -- scales, transcriptions, improvising, backing tracks, self-recordings, writing

• doing business as an artist- managing and organizing schedules, gigs, follow ups, tours

• maintaining a balanced, positive mindset in the music industry

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