Hello,
This is the sixth installment of Sound Bites.
Sound Bites- quality information in bite-size pieces is for anyone in or associated with the music industry who is in the pursuit of quality in all areas of their lives. I have received great praise throughout my life for my ability to find the most accurate, succinct and quality information about products, experiences, fun facts, you name it. With my affinity for research and the ability to compile the best of the best out there, I feel compelled to share my wealth of knowledge. Because I value your time, this newsletter intends to share my findings with you on a routine basis in digestible and curated morsels. Check out this week’s findings below!
Take A Listen…
Joe Pass- I Remember Charlie Parker
Arturo Sandoval- Dear Diz (Everyday I Think Of You)
The Night Game- The Night Game
I’ve been listening to a lot of new music in the last few weeks. Listening to new music is an amazing way to expand your musical repertoire and vocabulary. It also really helps deepen your creative well and have more to draw on when creating and performing. I attribute a big part of my diverse and perpetually expanding musical catalog to my first drum teacher John Yarling. He would send me home every week with four or five cd’s that I never heard before. As part of my homework, I would listen to every track on every cd once through. He said “I don’t care if you love it or hate it, just listen to it”. At times this was really difficult, like when he sent me home with Ponga. Other times it was music to my ears, like the first time I heard Simon Phillips play drums on the record Tambu by Toto. Still one of my favorite bands to this day. It’s the music that I was uncomfortable with and took me to the edge of what I felt was palatable that helped me grow the most as a musician. Listening to music in this way helps me experientially find an increased balance between being subjective (partial minded) or objective (even minded) and helped me stay open in hearing and absorbing everything the music has to offer.
For this newsletter, I decided to do as my drum teacher did for me and invite you to listen to these five records top to bottom once and see what you can extract out of it. Remain as objective as possible. See how you feel during and after listening. Look for the favorable and not so favorable qualities about the music and see if you can find a balance between the two. This might be challenging to name qualities you don’t like for the music you do like and qualities you do like in the music you don’t like. That is the intention of the exercise. This will help bring the awareness that all qualities exist in all music while simultaneously spotlighting your preferences by how the music makes you feel and what you gravitate towards.
I use to spend countless amounts of money on cd’s but now with the advent of streaming and youtube, you can listen to all the music listed for free. You could also choose to listen without advertisements for a monthly fee. I pay $9.99 a month for premium Spotify. It’s an amazing value for the access to seemingly endless quantities of music you receive in exchange.
My Business:
Source Science Sound– Helping musicians, bands, and artists do what they love and love what they do. Even in pursuing what I loved in life it still left me feeling unfulfilled. I also know through years of talking with many of you that I’m not alone. Why does this happen? I’ve concluded that no matter what we pursue in life if we are not happy and fulfilled from within first, then anything we give our time and energy will be colored by our unfulfillment. Unfulfilment is the result of internal imbalance. Like a movie projector, any internal discontentment is projected onto our external experiences from the inside out. Our outside world is merely an effect of all of our combined thoughts, actions, and emotions we’re constantly feeling inside. By recentering yourself from within, the world outside of you will change automatically. What will this result in? People being magnetized to you when you walk in a room, it will lead to more gigs, standing out in auditions, feeling encouraged instead of discouraged to practice your instrument or given trade more, better relationships with the ones you love, and a renewed love for music and life. If you feel you are struggling through life’s obstacles and want to know how to overcome them in a way that is simple, streamlined and will shift your life in the most amazing ways please reach out to me. Do this by replying to this newsletter for more information about private sessions or ways I can help. Experience what others think isn’t possible in career, finances, and relationships. I will work with you or your bands to find a way to break through whatever your obstacles are and help you reconnect with the passion for music and life.
Please give me feedback by replying to this newsletter or messaging me on Instagram. Which sound bite did you resonate with most? What do you want more or less of? Other suggestions? Let me know! You can also send a message to @sinatra_sound and put #SoundBites at the end.
Enjoy,
SS