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July 8, 2021

Music Life Lesson #2: Perseverance (Overcoming Failures)

My previous post spoke of discipline and work ethic being lessons gained through the study of music. Perseverance is an outgrowth of those strengths. Regardless of the amount of one’s focused attention to the details of perfecting a craft, failure is inevitable. Not complete failure, of course, but small failures daily and larger ones from time to time. Our humanity ensures these struggles.

July 8, 2021

The Sound that the End of Frustration Makes

When I was in 7th grade, my father purchased a 1966 MGB GT. It wasn’t restored and it required a lot of TLC just to stay on the road. This was the car that I learned many basic things on: how to do an oil change, a tune up, work on brakes, as well as how to drive a manual transmission car. After about a year, he added another one – a 1972 MGB GT. It was interesting to get to know the changes that had been implemented from that early model to one at about mid-run of the model. I was sure that one of these two cars would be mine. Then I went to college. And he sold them. Both.

July 6, 2021

Music Life Lesson #1: Work Ethic / Discipline

Music is a very interesting thing. Its ability to draw emotion from deep within us, create excitement, and bring inspiration all appeal to our right brain – both as listeners and performers. But music is also incredibly left brain in nature. It is ordered, regimented, and disciplined. This duel nature is, I believe, what makes music such a strong force for cognitive growth. We engage our whole brain in actively listening to music, and more so in actively performing it.

July 6, 2021

A New Blog with an Old Name

I don’t know what it is about the internet that makes a person think that anyone cares what they have to say. It just does. I believe I first go online in 1994 or so, while I was in college. And I discovered the chatroom. There wasn’t a whole lot to do back then and it took forever but there were communities and in those communities, we let everyone know what we thought about … whatever.