Hey all, got some news! I'm going back to school in the fall to pursue forensics as a career choice! With this, I've made all the instructional materials over at http://www.patreon.com/jgoldbergmusic free to anyone interested!

Why you might ask? A few factors:

I dropped out of school to perform music maybe 10 years ago and short of a giant multinational tour, I've done just about everything I've wanted to do. I've had the good fortune to tour extensively around the country with multiple acts, be flown to different places as a hired gun and to play original music, played internationally, played on records with some heavy hitter names and some of my all time favorite musicians (Dweezil Zappa, Travis Orbin, Mike Kenealy, Marco Minnemann), made music I'm super proud of with extremely talented players, left my mark on this instrument and have received support from Stick Enterprises and Emmett himself multiple times, and made some of the dearest friends I ever could have asked for.

I turned 30 this month and I still make the same amount of money as I did when I was 20. You'd think 10 years and lots of positive momentum in a career would translate being able to make a decent living for myself but I currently have 6 sources of income, including 2 part time jobs on top of all my teaching, regularly work 10-14 hour days, and I can mostly pay my bills. Even then, my income is really unstable and I stress about it a lot. I'm tired of living this way and I'm honestly pretty burnt out.

On top of that, my interests are changing. Tap Theory's educational schedule kept it difficult for me to find time to write and be creative, and I'm overall a different person than I used to be. It's cool, I'm excited for the future.

I recently released an EP, and then played a killer show with GEPH (probably our biggest Boston show to date) where we premiered a new song, and tonight I have a friend coming by to drop a saxophone solo on another song I'm working on. After 10 years of teaching and scraping by I'm ready to find another source of income so I can focus on the aspects of music I love the most.

So to reiterate, if you've been interested in the supplementary materials I've made at all, they're now available for free at http://www.patreon.com/jgoldbergmusic. I might still release instructional stuff from time to time, who knows. If you ever got anything from these videos, that's all I could ever hope for. Thanks for watching!

Hey, Josh, wishing you all the best...Thanks!!! For the past, present, and future of your Stick contributions.

Forensics is a term with a broad reach (medical, engineering, criminal justice, etc.). Do you mind if I ask if you have any specific industry or target in mind? Curious, and stoked for you!

Thanks Gussett! If I can have my first choice, I'd like to get into CSI field work. I've thought a lot about what path I'd take and this feels like it'll be the most interesting, plus I'll be directly helping to solve crimes and the pay isn't too shabby either.

So how is this going to effect the subscribers to your patreon page? Should we make sure to download everything now, in fear it eventually gets deleted? Will there still be new content, and will the subscriptions continue?

Regardless, it's been an honor being one of your patreon subscribers. I've learned a lot, and always enjoyed your teaching style.

Good question! I had posted something addressing this in my original to-patrons post:



You have no idea how much your continued belief in me and support mean to me. It's sustained me through difficult times to be sure.

Wow, thank you!

Have fun at school! I often think that I'd like to do it over again. Now that I'm older with more life experience, I would take it so much more seriously, and learn so much more.

Bruce, that's my attitude exactly right now.

I'll stay on the $3/per contribution plan for sure. Look forward to continued, if less frequent tapping goodness.

and of course, best of luck in school.

Thank you so much! I can't adjust that, you'll have to edit the pledge on your end. I got some stuff I'm very excited about coming so I hope you enjoy it!

Hey things change man. It's really not uncommon to have >1 career in these modern times
I used to be in Software dev (lot of musicians in there. we used to use band operations analogies a lot), now I'm a scientific scuba diver

My wife was a neuroscientist,now she's a biomedical patent atty (Ok, there is at least a little continuity there)

One thing to be careful about though...just be careful with copyright. Use doesn't have to be commercial to be infringing.
I'd be overstepping by any further analysis as I don't have a JD but just be careful with the idea that noncommercial use is automatically non-infringing.
Just would hate to see you get dinged.