Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Blogging Musician
In Boulder, I used to the ride the bus every morning to my job with an older gentlemen named Charles. I tell you this because I was happy to see his story go viral in a video yesterday.
Topics covered: Singing what you hear, the body/mind connection in music, exercises to improve your musicianship, and more.
I love videos like this. They help put my life in perspective. And they put me in a resourceful state. I’ve often found that most unresourceful states are accompanied by a narrowing of the field of vision into one area — not a metaphorical vision, but the actual sense of seeing — usually downwards to [...]
Singing what you hear is an important part of improving your perception. Let’s look at it from a body/mind perspective.
Recognizing that C and F is a perfect fourth is a cognitive exercise. You have to think about it. Maybe only for a split-second, but you still have to translate your physical experience, a verb, into [...]
What if you could install a button in your prospect that whenever you pressed it, it would trigger any behavior or emotion you want?
Then you’ll want to master the art of anchoring!
Let’s say you have a meeting with a prospect. During this meeting you build states of excitement and motivation in the prospect. Then the [...]
There are ways of giving commands to people without their conscious awareness of ever having received a command. The trick is to embed the command within a sentence that’s specifically designed to bypass the conscious mind.
Let’s take a look at the following sentence:
“You really should buy this book.”
Contrast that sentence with this one:
“You know, some [...]
People travel through many states of mind throughout any given day. We may feel tired when we wake up, refreshed after a shower, energized after our morning coffee, and bored during a company meeting.
Most people go through life letting the situations they find themselves in unknowingly manipulate their state of mind. “The boss did this [...]
Give me 5 minutes and I’ll show you how to instantly find unique and interesting details to put into your lyrics.
The technique is called Object Writing and it’s so ridiculously easy that you’ll be pissed you didn’t know about it sooner. I learned it from Pat Pattison.
Here’s how it works:
First, gather your materials. You’ll need [...]
I'm a songwriter and recording artist who sings, plays keyboards, and explores the vast world of sound hoping to find some magical moments along the way. I'm also a Mac geek.
@bbluesman Good call. in reply to bbluesman 6 hrs ago
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