Putting It All Together

Booking a hotel room isn’t hard. Neither is driving to Atlanta. Or making sure you didn’t leave anyone at the gas station. And it’s easy to glance in the back seat to make sure you have you guitar.

Each step is easy.

But putting it all together for a twenty date tour is hard. And the only way to have a twenty date tour is to put it all together.

Similarily…

It’s easy to sing the verse. And then punch in to sing the chorus. And get a few takes of the bridge. But singing it all the way through start to finish is a different exercise.

Similarly…

It’s fun and easy to sit down and do a pretty good job singing a song or two. But an entire set? Ten or twenty songs? You’ve gotta be next level.

Once you have the skills the next skill is putting it all together.

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The Scrolling Lie

“If you aren’t fulfilled by what you’re scrolling just keep scrolling and you will be.”

Rather…just put it down.

»» Bonus: Before you start scrolling for answers be sure you know what question you’re asking.

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Inflection Point

In the music business people love talking about working together.

People love scheduling meetings, getting excited, making promises, getting emotionally attached, talking about plans, dreaming out loud, and then talking some more.

And then comes the contract.

This is the inflection point.

For all the talk, how is the working together really going to work? For all the warm fuzzies, what are the compromises? For all the potential, what is the reality? And of course…what does the money look like?

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Who Will Listen?

A decent three minute recording is easy to make.

Upload your voice memo to Suno, give it a genre prompt and out pops a song.

With every new wave of technology since popular music began, recorded music has been easier to make. And the ease of making it has always invited more artists to the party.

And now anyone can do it.

But who will listen?

»» I made a giant grammatical error in yesterday’s post that changed the whole meaning of it. Ouchie. It’s fixed on the blog now and reprinted correctly here…

People with lots of opinions often get put into leadership because it looks like they care.

Lots of opinions don’t equate to good leadership. But care might.

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Quick Word On Leading

People with lots of opinions often get put into leadership because it looks like they care.

Lots of opinions don’t equate to good leadership. But care might.

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Why It Works

After you have a great song, you can listen back and 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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