Seen On Stage

Everyone one in the audience can see everyone on stage.

But it’s hard for the audience to focus on more than one person at a time.

(insert lead singer tropes here)

But after all the jokes…it’s a heavy lift to carry the spotlight on your shoulders for an hour or two every night. And this is why the great ones are few and far between.

»» The band has to understand that while most people are watching the lead singer, some in the audience are watching the band. So everyone has to perform the entire time. Everyone has to be compelling enough to warrant individual attention…while knowing that that level of intentionality might simply be in support of whoever is in the spotlight.

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Wind Chimes

They make nice music but it isn’t special and no one is lining up to buying a ticket.

Your appeal has to be deeper and wider than the wind chimes.

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Demo To Master

New Hum Love playlist up on Spotify and Apple

When we listen to a song, there’s no doubt in our minds that’s how the song goes. The drums sound like that, there’s that musical hook there, the vocals have that treatment, and it has the vibe we like. We listen and love it.

But there’s a pretty good chance it didn’t always go like that. It started out as a voice memo or an acoustic guitar and vocal…a chord structure, a melody and maybe some lyrics. All that other stuff: the production, the vibe, that weird thing in the intro…someone came up with that.

And it’s not a given. It takes skill and vision and trust to make all those choices.

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Sneaking Into The Show

A band has never gone broke from some kids sneaking into their show.

Rather…sneaking into the show creates stories that are remembered and told for years.

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Creative Baseline

It helps to have one. The stuff you make on a regular basis no matter what.

For most of us here, making and re-making are deeply woven into us. We find purpose and fulfillment when we’re doing these two things.

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Magical Moments

Perhaps the magical moments of life can help promote the idea of what’s still possible…rather than only pointing to what has passed us by.

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