Rob Preuss: Allow Your Curiosity To Fuel Your Passion

<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This week I had the pleasure of sitting down with Musician/Composer Rob Preuss. Rob has had an incredibly diverse career and believes that part of the reason is due to his sense of curiosity and absolute love for all genres of music. Whether he was talking about his time spent as a keyboard player in the band ‘Spoons’ or Honeymoon Suite or teaching the vocal track to a new member of the cast of Mamma Mia, he seemed to always find something that about the experience that satisfied his passion and also made him want to dig deeper into his love of music.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">In this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">what has enabled him to change genres and take on different roles in his music career</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Why it is important to look at every creative endeavor as a novice</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">What he does when he is feeling uninspired or stuck</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">Why listening is the most important skill he continues to embrace as an artist,</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li class="li1"><span class="s1">How to follow your curiosity and not fear failure</span></li> </ul> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">A little about Rob:</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">Rob is a musician/composer.<span class= "Apple-converted-space">  </span>He’s worked professionally in the recorded/live music business since he was 15 years old and has written, recorded, produced, conducted, rehearsed, played, bought, listened, loved, and learned music all of his life. Rob has worked alongside performers, producers, managers, accountants, agents, </span><span class="s1">record company staff for decades.</span></p> <p class="p2"><span class="s1">He started playing classical piano at age 5 and joined his first rock band at age 10, </span><span class="s1">and had some top 10 records in Canada with his band ‘Spoons' when he was 16-19 </span><span class="s1">