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Are You Ready?
Many times, people aren't ready when the wonderful happens. The dream becomes a nightmare as you stumble out silly words, or otherwise embarass yourself because you just forgot to work out the details. Here are a few ideas to prevent the worst and help ensure the best.
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Many times, people aren't ready when the wonderful happens. The dream becomes a nightmare as you stumble out silly words, or otherwise embarass yourself because you just forgot to work out the details. Here are a few ideas to prevent the worst and help ensure the best.
• "cindy lee haddock" • songwriting • "song writing" • "songwriting tips" • "song writing tips"
Don't Get Mad - Do Something!
Taking the energy you get from being angry at something life has dealt you and doing something constructive with it can really help your songwriting. Here are a few ideas of how to channel that power into something positive.
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Taking the energy you get from being angry at something life has dealt you and doing something constructive with it can really help your songwriting. Here are a few ideas of how to channel that power into something positive.
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Create Yourself
Commercial songwriting can seem formulaic, but it is often someone coming up with a sound that everyone else copies. Here are some ideas for creating your own signature sound you might not have tried, yet.
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Commercial songwriting can seem formulaic, but it is often someone coming up with a sound that everyone else copies. Here are some ideas for creating your own signature sound you might not have tried, yet.
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Damage Prevention
Songwriting can sometimes become a dangerous profession. Here are a few common-sense tips to keep you safe as you run around trying to further your music career.
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Songwriting can sometimes become a dangerous profession. Here are a few common-sense tips to keep you safe as you run around trying to further your music career.
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Handling Windfalls
Sudden cash is a wonderful thing! Sometimes, it is best, though, to remember you are still a struggling musician and think of the best way to use this windfall instead of blowing it all on a big party. You can celebrate your wisdom later.
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Sudden cash is a wonderful thing! Sometimes, it is best, though, to remember you are still a struggling musician and think of the best way to use this windfall instead of blowing it all on a big party. You can celebrate your wisdom later.
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More Fun With Homemade Instruments
A new sound is often all we need to give a special touch to a new composition. Here are a few more oddball ideas of instruments you may have around your home you haven't tapped the assets of just yet.
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A new sound is often all we need to give a special touch to a new composition. Here are a few more oddball ideas of instruments you may have around your home you haven't tapped the assets of just yet.
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Moving On
Rotten stuff happens. It seems a lot has happened bad to a lot of folks this year. Here are some musical coping strategies to let awful stuff enhance your music, not keep it from flowing.
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Rotten stuff happens. It seems a lot has happened bad to a lot of folks this year. Here are some musical coping strategies to let awful stuff enhance your music, not keep it from flowing.
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So What?
Missing a chance to get some music exposure you hoped for is hardly the end of the world. Sometimes we learn more by effectively handling disappointments than we can by showcasing at any overhyped music event.
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Missing a chance to get some music exposure you hoped for is hardly the end of the world. Sometimes we learn more by effectively handling disappointments than we can by showcasing at any overhyped music event.
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Song Storage
Secretarial work isn't something songwriters like to do, but it is a necessary evil. Here are a few ideas to make it a little less painful.
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Secretarial work isn't something songwriters like to do, but it is a necessary evil. Here are a few ideas to make it a little less painful.
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Songs Of The Bored
Boredom is something everyone faces, including the frustrated musician trying to do something useful for the day. Here are a few approaches you could try that will ring true with your audience without them changing the channel.
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Boredom is something everyone faces, including the frustrated musician trying to do something useful for the day. Here are a few approaches you could try that will ring true with your audience without them changing the channel.
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Songs Of The Unexplained
UFOs, miracles, heroes and the paranormal are all fun topics to write songs about. Why take the usual approach, though? Here are a few ideas to put a new spin on songs about the improbable.
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UFOs, miracles, heroes and the paranormal are all fun topics to write songs about. Why take the usual approach, though? Here are a few ideas to put a new spin on songs about the improbable.
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Your Gem Collection
Like a good rock collector, songwriters should be able to recognize a valuable piece when they run into one. Here are a few tips to help you know where to find them, recognize them, and file them away for future use.
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Like a good rock collector, songwriters should be able to recognize a valuable piece when they run into one. Here are a few tips to help you know where to find them, recognize them, and file them away for future use.
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Your Music Job Box
Making a "job box" full of music-related prompts can be a great way to get unstuck when you know you should do something musical, but just don't want to think too hard about it. Here are a few ideas you might add to make yours more fun.
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Making a "job box" full of music-related prompts can be a great way to get unstuck when you know you should do something musical, but just don't want to think too hard about it. Here are a few ideas you might add to make yours more fun.
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Compose Like A Copywriter: 5 Sure-Fire Tips To Better Writing
Ad copywriters make lots of money selling product. How? By tapping into the power of words. These 5 tips used by top copywriters will show you how to improve your writing skills and get more assignments - whether you write fiction or non-fiction!
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Ad copywriters make lots of money selling product. How? By tapping into the power of words. These 5 tips used by top copywriters will show you how to improve your writing skills and get more assignments - whether you write fiction or non-fiction!
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Hark! Felix Mendelssohn Compose
Bach is known by Lutherans for his music. But were it not for Felix Mendelssohn, we might not know much of Bach's music. This article focuses on this unique Lutheran composer.
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Bach is known by Lutherans for his music. But were it not for Felix Mendelssohn, we might not know much of Bach's music. This article focuses on this unique Lutheran composer.
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Salade Avec Le Formage de Chevre
Goats Have Survived The Ages So We Can Continue To Enjoy Their Cheese And This Composed Salad Recipe
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Goats Have Survived The Ages So We Can Continue To Enjoy Their Cheese And This Composed Salad Recipe
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Bored Stiff To Dos
Bored with songwriting? Don't even want to look at your guitar or even go into your practice room? Here are a few more ideas you can try to "trick" yourself into at least writing a few lines, if only to relieve guilt for taking a walk.
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Bored with songwriting? Don't even want to look at your guitar or even go into your practice room? Here are a few more ideas you can try to "trick" yourself into at least writing a few lines, if only to relieve guilt for taking a walk.
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Can You Give More?
Charities are great at twisting arms to get folks to help them out. Musicians are often useful softies, so they love to push us into their corners. Here are a few ideas to have this help, not hurt your career, and be a lot more fun.
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Charities are great at twisting arms to get folks to help them out. Musicians are often useful softies, so they love to push us into their corners. Here are a few ideas to have this help, not hurt your career, and be a lot more fun.
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Dealing Without Your Computer
The demise of your computer is usually only temporary, although it might seem the end of the world to many songwriters. Here are a few practical steps you can take to keep moving, until you can get your machine back from the shop.
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The demise of your computer is usually only temporary, although it might seem the end of the world to many songwriters. Here are a few practical steps you can take to keep moving, until you can get your machine back from the shop.
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Don't Let Your Illusions Use You
Too many artists talk themselves out of a music career. Here are a few tips on how to keep that from happening to you.
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Too many artists talk themselves out of a music career. Here are a few tips on how to keep that from happening to you.
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Dream Songs
Dreams can be a great source of songwriting material. Here are a few ideas you may not have considered in writing a song about your or someone else's sleep life.
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Dreams can be a great source of songwriting material. Here are a few ideas you may not have considered in writing a song about your or someone else's sleep life.
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Finding More Music Funds
Rising oil prices are playing havoc with many musician's plans for this year. Here are a few ways to squeeze those pennies so you can still afford studio time, seminars and that next demo, instead of just barely making survival bills.
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Rising oil prices are playing havoc with many musician's plans for this year. Here are a few ways to squeeze those pennies so you can still afford studio time, seminars and that next demo, instead of just barely making survival bills.
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Healing The Hurts
Coming close but still failing to make a big personal goal can be a career ending defeat to many musicians. Here are a few simple steps you can take to heal and refuel yourself to get back into the hunt as soon as possible.
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Coming close but still failing to make a big personal goal can be a career ending defeat to many musicians. Here are a few simple steps you can take to heal and refuel yourself to get back into the hunt as soon as possible.
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Heat Training
Some of the best paying gigs are in the summer, when kids are out of school, have extra cash and spend it on a concert or so. A musician has to be able to handle the heat, though. Here are some training ideas to get you ready.
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Some of the best paying gigs are in the summer, when kids are out of school, have extra cash and spend it on a concert or so. A musician has to be able to handle the heat, though. Here are some training ideas to get you ready.
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Holiday Ideas For A Musical New Year
Use your holiday downtime to set up your musical goals for next year. Here are a few ideas to get that ball rolling.
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Use your holiday downtime to set up your musical goals for next year. Here are a few ideas to get that ball rolling.
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Honesty Pays
A few lawsuits or an embarassing visit to a local psyc unit later, some finally realize that it isn't a good idea to pad their music resumes. Here are a few good reasons for just being truthful, and as wonderful as you really are.
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A few lawsuits or an embarassing visit to a local psyc unit later, some finally realize that it isn't a good idea to pad their music resumes. Here are a few good reasons for just being truthful, and as wonderful as you really are.
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I Just Want To Write!
There is nothing wrong with just wanting to be a songwriter and not a performer. Actually, this is probably harder to do that putting your own music on stage. Here are a few ways you can make this work for you.
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There is nothing wrong with just wanting to be a songwriter and not a performer. Actually, this is probably harder to do that putting your own music on stage. Here are a few ways you can make this work for you.
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It's All Good
We need to stop thinking about formats, rules and whether or not something is good. We can freeze ourselves up thinking we shouldn't write unless it is perfect, forgetting the best songs are rewritten. Just write!
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We need to stop thinking about formats, rules and whether or not something is good. We can freeze ourselves up thinking we shouldn't write unless it is perfect, forgetting the best songs are rewritten. Just write!
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Natural Riffing
Riffs don't have to be bits of scales or regular groups of notes. Some of the most memorable mimic sounds we hear every day. Here are a few exercises you might try to get you to hear the riffs around you.
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Riffs don't have to be bits of scales or regular groups of notes. Some of the most memorable mimic sounds we hear every day. Here are a few exercises you might try to get you to hear the riffs around you.
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Preferred Formats Come And Go
Always ask the person you are giving your music to exactly what format they would prefer to get it in when you send it. This can make the final difference in many cases of whether or not your song gets picked, or whether someone joins the band.
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Always ask the person you are giving your music to exactly what format they would prefer to get it in when you send it. This can make the final difference in many cases of whether or not your song gets picked, or whether someone joins the band.
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Silly Strings
Non-guitar stringed instruments are often treated as the poor step brother of the guitar in much of pop music. Lately, though, they have started to come to the forefront. Here are a few fun ideas you might try to put them into your new tunes.
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Non-guitar stringed instruments are often treated as the poor step brother of the guitar in much of pop music. Lately, though, they have started to come to the forefront. Here are a few fun ideas you might try to put them into your new tunes.
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Songs Of Home
Even the word "home" triggers all sorts of thoughts in a listener, so why not use it as a song subject? Here are a few ideas to get you writing about the place you feel most comfy.
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Even the word "home" triggers all sorts of thoughts in a listener, so why not use it as a song subject? Here are a few ideas to get you writing about the place you feel most comfy.
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Uninspired Songwriting
Most jobs don't require inspiration, and neither should songwriting. Here are a few ideas you might not have tried to get a few jots recorded, even if they aren't products you are proud of. A little jogging helps us all be better runners.
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Most jobs don't require inspiration, and neither should songwriting. Here are a few ideas you might not have tried to get a few jots recorded, even if they aren't products you are proud of. A little jogging helps us all be better runners.
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Young Love Songs
Just to counter all the sex and raunch on the radio, why not write a song about a child's idea of love. Here are a few nudges to get you writing some lyrics on a very fun twist to the usual romantic tune.
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Just to counter all the sex and raunch on the radio, why not write a song about a child's idea of love. Here are a few nudges to get you writing some lyrics on a very fun twist to the usual romantic tune.
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Make Money From Readers' Letters
Earn money and win prizes by writing letters and opinion pieces for newspapers and magazines.
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Earn money and win prizes by writing letters and opinion pieces for newspapers and magazines.
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Bridges; Travel Photo Opportunity
Bridges are spectacular examples of human creation and ingenuity, providing marvelous opportunities for photographers all around the world.
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Bridges are spectacular examples of human creation and ingenuity, providing marvelous opportunities for photographers all around the world.
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Creating a Christmas Collage
Adapt this Pre Christmas collage activity to suite the maturity of your Art Class. The complexity of the project will depend on the time and types of material available.
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Adapt this Pre Christmas collage activity to suite the maturity of your Art Class. The complexity of the project will depend on the time and types of material available.
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Make Your Own Chords
Why follow convention? Try coming up with your own scales and chords to write from. Sure, they probably have actual names you can discover later, but why not try something a little freeform to free up your imagination?
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Why follow convention? Try coming up with your own scales and chords to write from. Sure, they probably have actual names you can discover later, but why not try something a little freeform to free up your imagination?
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More Writing For Performance
A lot of musicians do like getting their music exposure by playing it themselves live. Here are a few more tips so you can do that effectively, and pull off your songs even if you have a really tough crowd one night.
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A lot of musicians do like getting their music exposure by playing it themselves live. Here are a few more tips so you can do that effectively, and pull off your songs even if you have a really tough crowd one night.
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The Third Rule (Better known as The Rule of Thirds) - Improving your Photos, Photo Hints
The 2nd part in a three part series on the basics of photography, covering the Rule of Thirds.
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The 2nd part in a three part series on the basics of photography, covering the Rule of Thirds.
• photography • digital photography • rule of thirds • composition • compose
Bartok Opera – Bluebeard's Castle
Bluebeard's Castle (A Kékszakállú Herceg Vára), by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók: Plot synopsis, character description, and other Bartók opera information.
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Bluebeard's Castle (A Kékszakállú Herceg Vára), by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók: Plot synopsis, character description, and other Bartók opera information.
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Isaac Albeniz, Life and Works
Brief biography of 19th-century Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz, best known for Iberia, a suite of 12 piano pieces.
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Brief biography of 19th-century Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz, best known for Iberia, a suite of 12 piano pieces.
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Tuna Salade Niçoise with Asparagus
This composed salad is named for the beautiful city of Nice on the Cote d'Azur, the French Riviera.
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This composed salad is named for the beautiful city of Nice on the Cote d'Azur, the French Riviera.
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Be A Good Friend
Most songwriters will admit to you they don't want a handout, they want a job. Here are a few ideas to get you started on how to be a better pal to your fellow musicians when they come to you asking for help.
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Most songwriters will admit to you they don't want a handout, they want a job. Here are a few ideas to get you started on how to be a better pal to your fellow musicians when they come to you asking for help.
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Dare To Be You
When we are first learning to play, copying our idols helps us learn our craft, but the time comes when we have to fly solo. Here are a few ideas to help make that transition to being yourself, and not be just another clone.
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When we are first learning to play, copying our idols helps us learn our craft, but the time comes when we have to fly solo. Here are a few ideas to help make that transition to being yourself, and not be just another clone.
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In The Morning
After a late evening practice or gig, getting up early is probably the last thing a songwriter wants to do. Learning to use those dazed and confused moments before you leave for work can really help your songwriting, though. Here's how.
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After a late evening practice or gig, getting up early is probably the last thing a songwriter wants to do. Learning to use those dazed and confused moments before you leave for work can really help your songwriting, though. Here's how.
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Keeping Your Head
Winning and losing are really both illusions. Sometimes what is more important is learning what you can from both so you can come back and try again with even better results.
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Winning and losing are really both illusions. Sometimes what is more important is learning what you can from both so you can come back and try again with even better results.
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Keeping Yourself Repaired
Sometimes we neglect our health in the name of our music. Here are a few tips to prevent this, and a few quick fixes for when you do slip up to get you through your next gig.
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Sometimes we neglect our health in the name of our music. Here are a few tips to prevent this, and a few quick fixes for when you do slip up to get you through your next gig.
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Making The Dream Come True
It's a new year, and many of us are looking for ways to make our music work this year if we came up a little short of our goals in the last one. Maybe it's time to take a closer look at the way we are doing things, uncomfy as that may be.
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It's a new year, and many of us are looking for ways to make our music work this year if we came up a little short of our goals in the last one. Maybe it's time to take a closer look at the way we are doing things, uncomfy as that may be.
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