Home Life

If you home life isn’t in order, the road is sure to tear you apart.

The road is hard enough on its own but if that’s all you have then you end up leaning into something that was never meant to handle the weight.

A solid home life is the only sustaining foundation and fuel that keeps you from going completely crazy out there.

And everyone will go a little crazy no matter what…but just before the road completely destroys you, you’ll remember that you have a home life worth keeping your sanity for. You can touch home base. Recalibrate. Whether it’s a phone call, facetime, or a few days or weeks at home. That anchor is everything.

Home life doesn’t have cheering fans, autograph lines and catering…it’s deeper than that.

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Learning More Chords

Great song writers usually know lots of chords.

But you don’t get better at writing songs by learning more chords. Although you’re gonna need to know a few.

Chords are about music…songwriting is about expression.

And doing music for a career is about connection via expression.

»» I send out an email every Sunday about the popular songs of the week and in it I highlight the chords of the songs. It’s just a handful of chords.

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Tools For The Path Ahead

Sticking to your guns and compromise are not opposites.

They’re both important tools. Both tools will need to be used on the path to your desired future. Sometimes at the same time.

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What Should We Play Next?

Being on stage is a bad time to ask this question.

(That is, unless asking ‘what should we play next’ on stage is your thing, like Springsteen. Just like books aren’t choose your own adventure unless they’re choose your own adventure.)

You know the arc of your show (even if you don’t realize it). You know which songs usually do what. You know where the climax is gonna to be. You know that if the next song isn’t the perfect one for the moment, it might still be the best option you’ve got.

The show doesn’t get better by discussing it more, weighing all options and taking a band vote before getting on to the next.

If you’re on stage still choosing what song should go next, make a call and go with it.

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Dinner Conversation

Dinner at the taco truck.

vs.

Dinner at the hip fine dining place.

Both are wonderful. And they draw out two different conversations. The aesthetic, style of food, pace of service and eating, delivery method, lighting, decibel level, size of table, proximity to others, price, layout of the menu…

It directs us and guides us toward what type of experience we want to have, expect to have and end up having.

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For Them To Become Fans

For people to become fans they don’t need to love all your songs.

You just need a song they love and a sound they love.

And then when you have these two things you end up getting the benefit of the doubt as it pertains to your other songs. They’re more likely to fall in love with your other songs if you’ve given them the first two things first.

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