Why It Works

After you have a great song, you can listen back tell WHAT works. You can tell HOW it works. And you know THAT it works.

But you still don’t know why it works.

And that’s why writing the next great song is still hard.

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Rules And Responsibilities

If you hire the mix engineer and the first mix is way off…it’s your fault.

If you’re signing a deal and the same company gives you a recommendation for a lawyer…don’t take it.

If you’re a lead singer and you’re wondering what to focus on…focus on the leading part.

If you’re a side musician feeling stuck…practice more, connect a lot more.

If you’re a songwriter, you need emotional energy…don’t waste emotional energy deciding whether or not you’re going to write today.

If you have a hit that people like to hear…never stop playing it.

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Finding Your Lens

Your message

Your banner

Your thing

Your why

Your overarching reason for showing up to the work over and over

Once you uncover it, it’s yours. It’s a gift that you get to filter all of your professional decision making through. It makes decisions simpler.

It’s made up of a combination of your personal values mixed with what works in the market.

You may not know what it is but you’re probably already doing it.

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Everyone Gets Tired

The difference is…

Tired from

vs.

Tired of

The goal is to find work that inspires you to go hard enough to get tired from, and inspires you enough to not get tired of.

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Post Game Interview

What is the post game on field interview for?

It’s not to learn about the game. We just watched the game.

It’s to endear the players to the audience.

Someone should tell the players that.

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Making A Big Deal Out Of It

1. Songs make a bigger deal out of things than need be…

A song takes a small snap shot of life and puts it under an elevated, idealized microscope. It highlights the emotion, adds grandiose metaphors, adds drama, stirs in the truth, and claims to be a story worth telling and hearing again and again. Is any moment worthy of that?

2. and yet not a big enough deal.

The greatest songs ever give us the best possible glimpse of the beauty of the snapshot. I’m not sure a song could ever over-state the beauty life shows us.

The audacity to write a song about anything is a bold claim of the content’s value. And yet maybe every moment is worth that and much more.

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