Preparation aligned with opportunity
Willingness aligned with circumstance
Expertise aligned with timing
Desire aligned with luck
Focus aligned with culture
All that to say…Any way you slice it success comes from a mixture of internal and external.
We have some say with the external variables.
But we have a lot of say over the internal. Which, in the long term have a huge effect on the externals.
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Minimize the circumstances that can break your focus.
Your focus causes discipline.
Discipline leads to credibility.
Credibility to trust.
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When you’re working on putting your show your show together and you get stuck with how to perform a certain song: accentuate the drama.
Where is the drama in the song? What drama could you pull out of it? If the drama of the song were really ramped up what would it sound like and how would it be different from the recorded version?
More than playing your songs it’s about performing your songs and making a show. Great shows are dramatic and emotional. You need to accentuate those features within each of your songs.
Here’s a perfect example:
Bruno Mars: That’s What I Like- Recorded version
Bruno Mars: That’s What I Like- Live version
What a jump. The alternate intro. The hits. The stabs. The dancing. The weird second verse. Slight changes to the melody. Big changes to the melody. That bass playing. The outro. They squeeze every bit of drama they can out of the song for the sake of making it a better performance.
You don’t need any production budget or tricks to make the type of leap he does from the recorded version to the live. You just have to be willing to do the work.
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If it’s something worth looking for we’re never looking for a one size fits all.
And while we probably all agree with that in theory…as it pertains to our own thing it’s easy to believe ‘our size fits all’. Because everyone should love us.
And some swing the other way ‘we have all the sizes so we have something that will fit you too’.
It turns out the most stable, best long term way to look at it is ‘our size doesn’t fit most people but if it fits you, you’re going to love it and you won’t find it anywhere else’.
Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue but I think you get it.
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You’re unlikely to go search for (and find) more/better options if you don’t believe there are any.
If you think you have options or that you don’t have options, you’re right.
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The key to a good show is to already have a good show when you step on stage.
‘Hoping it goes well’ isn’t a promising posture.
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