This weeks lesson, (about using the last couple of lessons I’ve sent out to name the notes in a C chord*), has me thinking about arpeggios. An arpeggio is just the fancy name for playing the notes of a chord individually, instead of strumming. When guitarist finger picks, they’re playing arpeggios, but you can also … Continue reading Saturday Songwriting: Flowers in Last Month’s Newspaper
In the last two days I’ve twice been challenged to be more empathetic. More specifically, I’ve been challenged by two separate people to look at the beliefs of people I don’t agree with, and how their worldview is actually right. One time was from a political commentator whose thought is that a political group’s … Continue reading An Empathetic Point of View
I started The Marketing Seminar two weeks ago now. The first exercise was a marketing audit: 26 questions about how I’m currently marketing my project. We were told we’d also complete the audit at the end of the course. It would double as a before and after snapshot. Nothing about it was too hard. Though … Continue reading The Marketing Audit
Every Tunesday I post a boldly imperfect, one-take song draft of a song. This was written from the prompt post on Saturday, September 26th: A Message. (You can receive a new prompt every Friday in time for Happy Hour by signing up here). https://youtu.be/94pz2-f_1nA All these tales are dogging me Smoke in a cheap motel … Continue reading Tunesday: Sept. 22nd: A Message Writ in Indigo
I’ve worked as a server in restaurants to earn my living for the past twenty years. In the industry, I’ve been taught if a mistake has been made it’s a faux pas to explain to a guest that it was busy, or that the restaurant was understaffed. It shouldn’t be the guest’s concern that the restaurant … Continue reading It’s about Their Experience
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