Just because they’re a great company, it doesn’t mean you should work together.
If you’re only criteria for working together is whether or not the other entity is legit, your path will zig zag all over the place.
Sometimes you’re going to have to pass on working with great people because it isn’t a fit with where you want to go and how you want to get there.
You’ll perform the song better if the lyrics are memorized.
Things can be fixed later but it would be better if you just did a better take right now.
i.e. Lean on how good you are, not on how good the editor is.
But yes, in all likelihood, edits will be made.
Your facial expressions come through the microphone.
You’ll sing better if you’re in shape.
Practice it slowly, make sure you know all the pitches.
Get better at feeling like singing.
You’ll sing it better if you’ve sang it a hundred times before…preferably in front of an audience.
Ad libbing in the last chorus is going to be harder than you think…come in with some ideas.
When you need a break, no need to be dramatic. Take the break. Come back. Get to work.
Do at least one weird take.
Follow vocal trends with careful discretion. If it doesn’t work will you be glad you did the trendy vocal thing?
This vocal take might out-live you…make it great.
»» This is an incomplete list. Send me what you have and I’ll do a follow up in the future.
Not feeling like it isn’t a good reason not to do it.
Being uncomfortable is often a good reason to keep going.
Desire is powerful and can lead you astray just as much as lead you to success.
We all have plenty of motivation, we just need to learn to aim it.
We all have a long enough attention span, we just need to learn how to spend it.
Circumstances aren’t forever.
We control very little but what we can control is worth our time and effort.
Presence trumps technique.
Service and connection are the antidotes to complacency, navel gazing, and many other things.
All the screaming and crying during Beatlemania and every artist-mania after it…
What are they crying for?
I’m not sure this is the complete answer, so feel free to add to it…
Music and tears are both languages of the soul. So there’s a natural conversation that happens between the two. It’s a conversation of connection and longing at the same time. Already but not yet.
If the blue tie store knew that everyone walking by liked black suits, they’d change they’re name to the black tie store.
For most of us if the customers would just tell us what color suit they’re gonna wear, we’d be happy to make the perfect tie.
But they don’t. And sometimes what they say they’re gonna wear and what they actually wear are different. And then the style changes. And then a new tie shop opens down the street.