Ben Spooner.

Two decades in music. Now building software.

Where my time goes.

Founder

CopyLint

A copy checker for teams that need their writing to stay on-brand.

Collaboration

Mothers Memoirs

A guided writing space for honest reflections on motherhood.

Coming soon

A private SEO system for the sites I build and look after.

Pulling together crawl, search, and performance data - then turning it into clear actions and maintenance work.

Search Console · Screaming Frog · Ahrefs

Where my time also goes.

Practice system

GoAgain

Train your brain through rhythm.

Things I've been thinking about.

Become a multi-instrumentalist. It’s easier than you think

What is a multi-instrumentalist?

Wikipedia defines a multi-instrumentalist as:

“a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency” - Wikipedia

Notice the word ‘proficiency’. In Wikipedia’s view multi-instrumentalists have to be experts, not just on one instrument but on all of them - no easy feat. There’s no denying it’s incredible to watch and listen to musicians who have mastered their craft, however I prefer to think of multi-instrumentalists as ‘musically fluent’ rather than proficient. Fluency is a very different proposition, a more attainable one. Where proficiency is reserved for the few, fluency is open to all…

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Pieces I've worked through.

Jazz trio transcriptions

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How I got here.

I started in music - spending my early career teaching, performing, and writing.

Over the years I’ve played in a lot of different contexts - performing at the Edinburgh Fringe, recording at Abbey Road, working with artists like Joy Crookes, even appearing as a drummer in one of Gabrielle Aplin’s videos.

In 2022, an MSc in Music for Screen pulled me into software. One thing led to another, and now I build digital products.

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